Issue #60 — Caroline

Hey everyone

This week’s newsletter comes to you from North Carolina, USA where Ben is currently on tour doing outreach for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. So far he’s given talks in New York, Washington DC and Raleigh and Charlotte in North Carolina. In the next two weeks he’ll visit Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Wyoming and Utah.

You can watch one of Ben’s talks online – this one from the Code in the Classroom event set up by Elliott Hauser from Trinket.

Python Picamera has some new features, Mathematica 10 lands in Raspbian, the new MagPi’s out and you can follow instructions to build your own HAL 9000.

Until next week

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Code in the Classroom in Raleigh, North Carolina

News

• The MagPi Issue 26 (themagpi.com)
  Dynamic art and a magic wand demonstrating the persistence of vision effect
• Python Picamera 1.7 (twitter.com)
  The Python picamera upgrade introduces text overlays, raw video output and more
• Gocupi (kickstarter.com)
  Allow your Raspberry Pi to be an epic polargraph
• Raspberry Pi Gamer Console (kickstarter.com)
  Play Super Nintendo, NES, Sega Games from this Pi powered console
• Ben's USA Tour Dates (raspberrypi.org)
  Ben's on tour in the US - here are the dates and locations
• Mathematica 10 (raspberrypi.org)
  Mathematica 10 is released for Raspberry Pi

Projects

• I'm Sorry, Dave (hackaday.com)
  Build your own HAL 9000 computer
• Image Processing Robot (raspberrypi.org)
  17-year-old student Arne Baeyens and his impressive line following robots
• KittenGroomer (raspberrypi.org)
  Data security concerns over USB stick file transfers resolved for journalists
• Emulate Rare Platforms on Raspberry Pi (makezine.com)
  Matt from Make covers retro emulation on Pi
• Testing VR Limits with Raspberry Pi (hackaday.com)
  Experiments in virtual reality with Raspberry Pi

Articles & more

• What's next for Raspberry Pi? (fastcompany.com)
  Hobbyist tinkerers turning ideas in to consumer products
• Pi In The Sky (newelectronics.co.uk)
  An interview with Eben on the B+ and the future of Pi
• How to optimize Raspberry Pi code using its GPU (petewarden.com)
  Pete Wearden making use of the Pi's open source graphics drivers
• Code in the Classroom Talk Video (youtube.com)
  Ben's talk from the Code in the Classroom event in Raleigh, NC
• UNICEF Lebanon showcases Raspberry Pi For Learning (unicefstories.org)
  How UNICEF provide affordable education in Lebabon with the Pi

Upcoming Events

• Peterborough Raspberry Jam (UK) (9 August)
• Southend Raspberry Jam (UK) (16 August)
• Manchester Raspberry Jam (UK) (30 August)
• Cambridge Raspberry Jam (UK) (6 September)
• Raspberry Jam Berlin (DE) (13 September)
• PyConUK (Coventry, UK) (19 - 22 September)

Contact & Submissions

This newsletter is curated by @ben_nuttall. Tweet links to @rpf_weekly or email weekly [at] raspberrypi.org