Issue #36 — Cannon

Hi everyone

Just a week to go to the Jamboree! Hope you’ve all got your tickets for the conference, party and/or Jam hack day. Ben’s busy preparing his talks and workshops. He’ll be going along with Carrie Anne, Clive and Dave (the whole Foundation Education team).

Great news: Linux Voice magazine goes on sale on Thursday! You can grab a subscription or buy from WHSmith, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Martin’s/McColl’s and Easons (Ireland). Also limited supply in Brazil, Belgium, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, New Zealand, Canada, Sweden, Finland, Portugal and Spain! We’re also told you can expect the most comprehensive guide to brewing beer with a Raspberry Pi that you’re ever likely to read. Very excited!

Hope to see some of you at the Jamboree next week.

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Using Pi, the Pi, compressed air, sprinkler valves and PVC tubing to fire t-shirts at deadly speed

News

• Adventures in Raspberry Pi £6 in the Swag Store (raspberrypi.org)
  Carrie Anne's brilliant Pi book is now available at the Swag Store for only £6
• Linux Voice Launch 27th Feb (linuxvoice.com)
  New community FLOSS Magazine Linux Voice launches this week
• MagPi Volume 2 Binder Update (kickstarter.com)
  You can collect your pledge for the Community Pi magazine at the Jamboree

Projects

• Pi-powered T-shirt Cannon (raspberrypi.org)
  Building a t-shirt cannon like the one that killed Maude Flanders
• Jayme Gisbourne's Porta-Pi (raspberrypi.org)
  14 year old Jayme built a hand-held Pi/screen/keyboard combo in a compact case
• Mission Control Desk (makezine.com)
  Jeff Highsmith built a mission control desk for his son
• Raspberry Pi Retro Restyle (smittytone.wordpress.com)
  Recreating the Sinclair ZX81 with a Pi
• Create a Twitter App on Your Raspberry Pi (raspi.tv)
  Alex guides us through building an app to tweet photos from the Pi

Articles & more

• What is Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam? (torquayheraldexpress.co.uk)
  What is Torbay Raspberry Pi Jam? We just don't know
• Running a lightweight Java Application Server on a RPi (eclipsesource.com)
  How to set up your Raspberry Pi as a Java application server
• Vernier sensors and the Wolfram Language (raspberrypi.org)
  Interfacing external sensors with the Wolfram language
• Misty Eyed LOHAN (theregister.co.uk)
  Pictures from the low orbit photography mission

Upcoming Events

• Raspberry Jamboree (Manchester) (27 - 28 February)
• Raspberry Jamboree Hack Day (Edge Hill) (1 March)
• Southend on Sea Raspberry Jam (1 March)
• Torbay Raspberry Jam (8 March)
• 1st Peterborough Raspberry Jam (15 March)
• Linux User Raspberry Jam (Poole) (5 April)

Thanks to our sponsor

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In Issue One we’re celebrating and looking forward to all that 2014 has to offer in the world of free software. From the basic nuts and bolts that make Linux work under the hood to the Stallmans and Snowdens, we just want to say thanks.

We also get far too carried away in the most comprehensive guide to brewing beer with a Raspberry Pi that you’re ever likely to read, and we’re going right back to the origins of computer science CE with a tutorial that follows in the footsteps of Ada Lovelace and her pioneering work on the Analytical Engine.

Contact & Submissions

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