Issue #47 — Dinosaur

Hi all

We hope you enjoyed the bank holiday weekend.

Yesterday the Foundation announced two upcoming dates for Picademy – free CPD for teachers. These will be two-day events in June and July – applications now open to teachers in the UK. With this announcement came a video of the first Picademy.

There’s been an update to Arch Linux – available from the Raspberry Pi downloads page. This update bumps NOOBS to v1.3.7. XBMC core is now at v13.0 (Gotham) but the update has yet to make it to the Pi distribution images.

Also this week, friend of Pi Dr. Tom Crick from Cardiff Metropolitan University was interviewed for the Wales Report on BBC about the Raspberry Pi and the Welsh Computing Curriculum.

Tomorrow is the CamJam – Ryan will be along but Ben cannot make it as he’s away for the weekend. Hope everyone has fun! More Jam listings below – remember to tweet us or email us with your Jam dates.

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Dan Aldred’s PiFace powered roaring dinosaur from Marks and Spencer’s

News

• Picademy Applications Open (raspberrypi.org)
  Free CPD for UK teachers provided by Foundation Education team
• XBMC 13 Gotham Rises (xbmc.org)
  Stable release of XBMC v13 available with new features and speed improvements
• Inferno Raspberry Pi Image (lynxline.com)
  Beta release of Bell Labs' 1996 operating system Inferno, ported to Pi
• Happy 2nd Birthday to the MagPi (raspberrypi.org)
  Liz posts in celebration of 2 years of the MagPi magazine
• Mr Beam (kickstarter.com)
  Pi-powered portable laser cutter and engraver kit on Kickstarter
• Dock2Office Tablet Dock To Use Compute Module (kickstarter.com)
  Tablet dock kickstarter announces it will use the Raspberry Pi compute module
• New Arch Linux Image (raspberrypi.org)
  A new Arch Linux image is now available from raspberrypi.org (NOOBS now at 1.3.7)
• Bright Pi - Bright White & IR Camera Light (kickstarter.com)
  Kickstarter for a white and infrared illumination for the camera module - by Pi Supply

Projects

• Boris, the Twitter Dino Bot (tecoed.co.uk)
  A toy dinosaur that roars when you tweet it! Powered by PiFace
• Apple II Raspberry Pi Case (adafruit.com)
  Outfit your Raspberry Pi to match the original hacker’s computer, the Apple II
• C-3PO Talker Project (c-3po-talker-project.blogspot.ca)
  Bizarre but interesting project to make a C-3PO bust chat back
• Electric Spinning Wheel (thetwistedpurl.com)
  Raspberry Pi powered spinning wheel for hand-made yarn
• PortaBerry Pi (3dprintboard.com)
  Building a brilliant handheld emulator device with a Pi and embedded TFT

Articles & more

• BBC Wales Report (bbc.co.uk)
  Tom Crick talks Raspberry Pi and the computing curriculum in Wales (from 12 mins)
• Capture Screenshots of Minecraft Pi (raspberrypi-spy.co.uk)
  Raspberry Pi Spy on how to capture screenshots of your Minecraft window on Pi
• London WiFi Security Check (theregister.co.uk)
  James at Sophos Security used a Pi to check the security on London's wifi
• Learning Anywhere and everywhere with Raspberry Pi (unicefstories.org)
  A learning programme for all - delivered on Raspberry Pi
• Arduino vs. Raspberry Pi (readwrite.com)
  Comparison piece on "which is the right DIY platform for you?"

Upcoming Events

• Cambridge Raspberry Jam (10 May)
• North Staffordshire Raspberry Jam (12 May)
• Oxford Raspberry Jam (15 May)
• Trowbridge Community Day (Pi workshops) (17 May)
• Raspberry Jam Silicon Valley (17 May)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (Adults) (21 May)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (Students) (21 May)
• Raspberry Jam Helsinki (3 June)
• Falkirk Raspberry Jam (16 June)

Contact & Submissions

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