Issue #109 — Chief

Hi everyone

This week saw Picademy at Pi Towers in Cambridge, and the Foundation introduced its new CEO Philip Colligan on the blog. Meanwhile James Robinson led a balloon launch from Churchill College at Cambridge University in preparation for next month’s Skycademy – which anyone can apply to attend to learn to send a Pi in to the sky, get it to take aerial photographs and track its progress.

This weekend the Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists are in Sheffield for a field trip with workshops at Pimoroni and the Showroom cinema.

Next week some of the team are in Spain for EuroPython and the Education Summit in Bilbao.

Raspberry Pi was featured in TV show Mr. Robot this week.

It’s coming up to Pimoroni’s 3rd birthday and they’re celebrating by doing fun stuff.

Ben

Picture of the week

Introducing the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s CEO – Philip Colligan

News

• Welcoming our new CEO (raspberrypi.org)
  Introducing Philip Colligan, the new chief executive of Raspberry Pi Foundation
• Astro Pi Mission Update 4 (raspberrypi.org)
  Updates and announcement of competition winners
• RasPiO GPIO Quick Reference Ruler (kickstarter.com)
  GPIO pinout PCB ruler with a RPi.GPIO cheat sheet - from Alex Eames
• Raspberry Pi scoops Tech4Good Special Award (journalism.co.uk)
  Raspberry Pi wins Tech4Good award

Projects

• Pi-Boy Classic (thingiverse.com)
  3D printed portable handheld games console
• DIY AirPlay Speaker System (geeky-gadgets.com)
  Raspberry Pi DIY AirPlay speaker system built for $45
• Raspberry Pi Nin10do (hackaday.io)
  A new 3D printed games console for retro gaming

Articles & more

• Where's Wally (raspberrypi.org)
  Find Wally/Waldo faster using the Wolfram language
• Boombox Blaster (raspberrypi.org)
  Duelling for music control
• Patterncraft (raspberrypi.org)
  Punch card programming meets Minecraft Pi
• 2040 Ate Pi (youtube.com)
  The 2048 game on Raspberry Pi in Bare-Metal Assembly
• Computer code by Lincoln students to be used by astronaut (lincolnshireecho.co.uk)
  Astro Pi winners will have their code run on board the ISS
• Why the Raspberry Pi 2 rocks (mid-day.com)
  Killer features of the Pi 2

Upcoming Events

• Raspberry Pi社群聚會 (TW) (28 July)
• Raspberry Jam Ipswich (UK) (8 August)
• Cotswold Raspberry Jam (UK) (26 September)
• Egham Raspberry Jam (UK) (11 October)

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