Issue #132 — Christmas

Happy Christmas everyone!

Just a quick one today – we’ll be back in 2016!

Enjoy!

Ben

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News

• Mashup Minecraft with The MagPi #41 (raspberrypi.org)
  The New Year 2016 edition of the official Raspberry Pi magazine is out now!
• PiTFT Now Supports Raspberry Pi Zero (blog.adafruit.com)
  An update gets Adafruit's TFT working on Pi Zero
• ProtoZero (kickstarter.com)
  A Raspberry Pi Zero Prototyping Board from AverageMan
• indieGO (kickstarter.com)
  An all-in-One Retro Game Console using Raspberry Pi 2
• Gadget Pi Zero (learn.adafruit.com)
  You can now turn your Raspberry Pi Zero into a USB Gadget

Projects

• piCentr (instructables.com)
  Building a piCentr home media center
• Sense HAT Spirit Level (suppertime.co.uk)
  Use the Sense HAT to make a spirit level
• Sense HAT Weather Forecast (suppertime.co.uk)
  Get the weather forecast to display on your Sense HAT
• Sense HAT Dice (suppertime.co.uk)
  Use the Sense HAT as a die

Articles & more

• Sense HAT Christmas projects (raspberrypi.org)
  Projects and activities for the Sense HAT
• Top Secret Project CORHAKADA (raspberrypi.org)
  Family Christmas project built with LightShow Pi
• Star Wars Carnival (no spoilers!) (raspberrypi.org)
  A physical Star Wars game built with PyGame
• Santa Claws (cnet.com)
  Play a real claw crane game live through your browser to win money for charity
• Kopimashin (torrentfreak.com)
  Pirate Bay founder builds the ultimate piracy machine
• Raspberry Pi Zero Review (mikronauts.com)
  A close look at what the Zero is good for
• Found a Raspberry Pi in your Christmas stocking this morning? (raspberrypi.org)
  Clive sums up the Pi world for newcomers this Christmas

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