Issue #130 — Cygnus

Hi everyone

This week the Cygnus spacecraft safely delivered the Astro Pis to the International Space Station, and next week Tim Peake will join them.

Rachel’s DOTs boards used by Raspberry Pi at Maker Faires and other events are now available for sale at The Pi Hut, in conjunction with Bare Conductive.

Ben

Picture of the week

Cygnus craft containing two Raspberry Pis captured by the International Space Station

News

• Cygnus spacecraft launch successful (twitter.com)
  The craft carrying the Astro Pi payload successfully launched from Florida
• Cygnus spacecraft capture successful (twitter.com)
  The Astro Pi payload craft successfully captured by the ISS
• DOTS Board now available (thepihut.com)
  Rachel's conductive paint activity add-on board is now available to buy

Projects

• People in Space Indicator (raspberrypi.org)
  Use LEDs to indicate the number of people currently in space
• Raspberry Pi Zero - USB Hub Mod (frederickvandenbosch.be)
  Hacking a USB hub into the back of a Pi Zero
• PiBus (tenshu.net)
  E-paper bus stop display with a Pi
• Opening a garage door from the Internet (dhowdy.blogspot.co.uk)
  Internet of Things garage door opener
• Raspberry Pi Zero Hidden In An Xbox Controller (shkspr.mobi)
  Play games using an XBOX controller with a Pi Zero hidden inside
• Adding Basic Audio Ouput to Raspberry Pi Zero (learn.adafruit.com)
  Get your Pi Zero singing
• hot-tub-controller (github.com)
  Raspberry Pi web enabled hot tub controller
• BOM for sub-£15 Raspberry Pi robot (richardhayler.blogspot.co.uk)
  Billof materials for Richard Hayler's £15 Pi robot

Articles & more

• 5 great Raspberry Pi projects for the classroom (opensource.com)
  Minecraft Pi, Reaction game, Sense HAT pixel pet, infra-red bird box and robots
• Christmas lights (raspberrypi.org)
  Collection of Christmas projects from the community
• Astro Pi: Launch review and ISS arrival (raspberrypi.org)
  Dave was in Florida for the Astro Pi launch
• Pi Wars (raspberrypi.org)
  10-year-old Femi’s blog post about the robotics competition
• Beetlecam (raspberrypi.org)
  Observing elephant beetles
• Pi Wars - Mike Horne (roboticstomorrow.com)
  Mike Horne's world of Raspberry Pi robotics
• Raspberry Pi Zero Extreme Teardown (youtube.com)
  A very close look at the new Raspberry Pi
• Review of Percheron Electronics E-paper HAT (recantha.co.uk)
  Mike Horne reviews an e-paper display HAT for the Pi
• Updated Pi Family Photo (raspi.tv)
  Alex Eames adds the Pi Zero to his Pi collection

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