Issue #106 — Chickens

Friday 26 June 2015

This week the Raspberry Pi blog has been littered with chicken related Pi projects.

Today I’m travelling to Liverpool for MakeFest and the Robotic Garden workshops with Rachel – and interns Andrew and Tom.

Ben

Picture of the week

Live stream of incubated chicken eggs

Skycademy (raspberrypi.org)
Picademy goes skywards - high altitude ballooning for teachers
Naturebytes Wildlife Cam Kit (kickstarter.com)
Digital Making for Wildlife - Naturebytes on Kickstarter
Raspberry Pi Firmware Updated to Linux Kernel 4.0 (news.softpedia.com)
Dom announces a pre-release of a 4.0 kernel - try it with rpi-update

Open Source Kinect stand-alone 3D Scanner (hackaday.io)
This Raspberry Pi 2 based 3D Scanner uses a Kinect
A Chicken Incubation System (raspberrypi.org)
A live web streaming chicken egg incubation unit
Installing PostgreSQL on your Raspberry Pi (raspberrypg.org)
Learn to install and use the popular database PostgreSQL
Triggering Raspberry Pi Hue LEDs from Android UI (pubnub.com)
Combining Raspberry Pi hardware with Android software UI
Write your own Raspberry Pi Game (alphr.com)
Learn to make a whole game with Scratch on Raspberry Pi
Basic Temperature Logging To The Internet (raspberrypi-spy.co.uk)
Log temperature data and send it to the internet
Build a Raspberry Pi Security Camera Network (pimylifeup.com)
Use the camera module in this security camera project

Outernet (raspberrypi.org)
One-way internet from space
Mechanise your Chickens (raspberrypi.org)
Automating the chicken coop opening and closing process
Chickens Redux (raspberrypi.org)
Mechanical chicken hut
A Big Year for Dwarf Planets (raspberrypi.org)
Analysing dwarf planets with the Wolfram language
At last, the Raspberry Pi mini PC has an official case (engadget.com)
Short summary of the new official Raspberry Pi case
Skype runs on Raspberry Pi with a virtual machine (electronicsweekly.com)
Using x86 emulation to run Skype and other traditional desktop apps on the Pi
Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Pinout (blog.adafruit.com)
Neat graphic depicting pinout and other info on the Pi 2

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