Issue #87 — Estonia

Hi everyone

This week there are plenty of articles about the new Raspberry Pi 2!

I’m back from my trip to Estonia where Rachel and I attended the Garage48 Hardware & Arts hack weekend at the University of Tartu and witnessed plenty of great Pi projects. The Prime Minister of Estonia attended the hackathon final presentations and we got chance to meet him.

This weekend is Flotilla‘s final push – it’s over in less than 72 hours.

Ben

Picture of the week

Raspberry Pie provided by the British Embassy in Estonia

News

• Raspberry Pi Weather Station for schools (raspberrypi.org)
  Weather station project from the Foundation and Oracle for schools around the world
• Prepare for Pi Day (raspberrypi.org)
  Raspberry Pi events for 3/14 (March 14th)
• MagPi Issue 30 and Volume 3 Kickstarter (raspberrypi.org)
  Community magazine issue 30 is out, and there's a Kickstarter for this year's issue binder
• Sonic Pi Competition Winners (raspberrypi.org)
  Coded music from school children - here are the winners!
• Linux Voice Giveaway for Schools (raspberrypi.org)
  UK schools can sign up for free issues of Linux Voice magazine
• Ubuntu Desktop on Raspberry Pi 2 (techrepublic.com)
  Here's an Ubuntu desktop image created by a community member
• RasPiO Duino (kickstarter.com)
  Affordable Arduino Programming On Raspberry Pi - Kickstarter from Alex Eames
• Explorer HAT (shop.pimoroni.com)
  New prototyping HAT from Pimoroni
• pisignage (pisignage.com)
  Interactive Digital Signage for Showrooms and Offices - powered by Pi
• Google Coder for Pi 2 (googlecreativelab.github.io)
  Google's Coder OS image for Raspberry Pi has been updated for Pi 2

Projects

• Pi 2 - Power and Performance Measurement (raspi.tv)
  Alex Eames walks us through hammering the CPU to test out the Pi 2
• Testing raw DPI display capability on the Raspberry Pi (blog.adafruit.com)
  Lady Ada hacks the GPIO on Pi 2 and B+ to get a DPI display signal out
• Mushroom Cultivation Automation (kylegabriel.com)
  Maximising mushroom cultivation productivity with Raspberry Pi

Articles & more

• Emulation on Raspberry Pi 2 (raspberrypi.org)
  Review of performance of emulation platforms on Raspberry Pi 2
• Xenon Death Flash (raspberrypi.org)
  Explanation of the Xenon flash issue on Pi 2 - and a free physics lesson
• Raspberry Pi Guy's Call for Questions (theraspberrypiguy.com)
  Matt will be interviewing Eben and Gordon about Pi 2 and more
• Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Review (mikronauts.com)
  How Pi 2 compares to the ODROID C1, Banana Pro, MIPS CI20 and Model B+
• Understanding kernels on the Raspberry Pi (pi-ltsp.net)
  Andrew Mulholland explains kernels on Pi and LTSP
• Raspberry Pi 2 review (expertreviews.co.uk)
  5/5 - the Raspberry Pi 2 can stand up as a proper computer

Upcoming Events

• Have a taste of Raspberry Pi, Blackpool (UK) (14 February)
• San Diego Raspberry Jam (US) (17 February)
• Blackpool Raspberry Jam (UK) (21 February)
• Melbourne Raspberry Jam (AU) (22 February)
• Raspberry Pi for dummies, Antwerp (BE) (11 March)
• Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam 10 (UK) (14 March)
• Raspberry Jamboree 2015 - Day 1 (UK) (20 March)
• Raspberry Jamboree 2015 - Day 2 (UK) (21 March)
• Raspberry Jamboree 2015 - Day 3 (UK) (22 March)
• Plymouth Raspberry Jam (UK) (13 June)

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