Issue #72 — Depth

Hi

This week the Foundation office held Picademy #5, followed by the pilot for the Raspberry Pi Digital Creatives Bronze award – an extra curricular project to engage young people in digital creativity led by Rachel where Amy and Dan Mather have been making halloween themed hacks, and Liz and Eben went to Washington, D.C. for Broadcom MASTERS.

We’ve seen plenty of Halloween Pi hacks this week, and expect more over the weekend.

Congratulations to Andrew Mulholland for winning the Digital Hero award for his community work and contributions to Raspberry Pi’s use in education.

Ben

Picture of the week

Perception of depth of field using two camera modules connected to a Raspberry Pi compute module

News

• FirefoxOS Coming to Raspberry Pi (wiki.mozilla.org)
  A port of FirefoxOS to the Pi is in development
• Andrew Mulholland Wins Digital Hero Award (digitalheroes.talktalk.co.uk)
  18 year old PI-LTSP developer crowned 2014's overall Digital Hero

Projects

• Real Time Depth Perception (raspberrypi.org)
  Using the compute module's dual camera feature to gauge depth perception
• GameBoy Halloween Costume (raspberrypi.org)
  A Pi powered playable GameBoy costume worn by an adult human
• Wavemon (raspberrypi-spy.co.uk)
  Monitor your WiFi connection with this visual command line tool
• Halloween Scarer (adafruit.com)
  A model skull with a motion sensor and flashing lights
• Socrative Zombie (tecoed.co.uk)
  Zombie head that senses movement and screams
• Halloween (raspberrypi.org)
  Halloween projects featured on the Raspberry Pi blog

Articles & more

• Pi Talks at PyConUK (raspberrypi.org)
  Talks from Carrie Anne, Ben and Alex at the UK Python conference
• Making a Unicorn HAT (raspberrypi.org)
  Pimoroni on how they test and program their LED HAT
• Mozilla wants FirefoxOS on Raspberry Pi (zdnet.com)
  Mozilla planning to develop FirefoxOS to be used for hardware interaction on the Pi
• RPi Board (jechavarria.com)
  An add-on board for learning Python with simple hardware

Upcoming Events

• Preston Raspberry Jam (UK) (3 November)
• Manchester Raspberry Jam (UK) (8 November)
• London Raspberry Jam (UK) (8 November)
• Raspberry Pi Book Club (TW) (10 November)
• Mechelen Raspberry Jam (BE) (13 November)
• Malinowy Dżemik (PL) (20 November)
• Raspberry Jam Berlin (DE) (22 November)
• Cotswold Raspberry Jam (UK) (22 November)
• Hull Raspberry Jam (UK) (22 November)
• Warwick Raspberry Jam (UK) (24 November)
• London Raspberry Jam (UK) (29 November)
• Lagos Raspberry Jam (NG) (11 December)
• Huddersfield Raspberry Jam (UK) (13 December)

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