Issue #88 — Five

Hi there

The Raspberry Pi 2 is going well – sales hit 500,000 this week taking the total over 5 million. This means roughly 10% of all Raspberry Pis sold are now the new model.

This week the Foundation held Picademy #7 at its offices in Cambridge, training 25 more teachers in using the Pi in creative and exciting ways in the classroom.

Sam Aaron posted a sneak peak of a new addition to Sonic Pi – interaction with Minecraft Pi, which will be a really interesting development integrating live coding music and the virtual world of Minecraft.

Ben

Picture of the week

A sneak peak from Sam Aaron: live coding music and the virtual world of Minecraft from Sonic Pi

News

• Five Million Sold (raspberrypi.org)
  Raspberry Pi sales pass the 5 million mark
• Astro Pi Mission (raspberrypi.org)
  Updates on the Astro Pi space mission from Dave Honess
• Principia Grant Scheme (gov.uk)
  £100k funding available for education and outreach with Astro Pi
• OpenPi (kickstarter.com)
  Wireless Raspberry Pi compute module based computer kit

Projects

• Occupied (hackster.io)
  A toilet queueing app for serious poopers
• Netflix & Amazon on your Pi Media Centre (youtube.com)
  Build a Raspberry Pi home theater PC
• Build A Cheap Arcade Cabinet (mancavemodder.blogspot.co.uk)
  An arcade cabinet with a Raspberry Pi 2 & RetroPie
• Teletext (hackaday.com)
  Teletext on a Raspberry Pi with zero additional parts

Articles & more

• The Raspberry Pi Guy interviews Eben and Gordon (raspberrypi.org)
  Matt interviews Eben and Gordon about Pi development
• Portrait of an Inventor (raspberrypi.org)
  RS Components talking to Eben about the history of Pi and Pi 2
• Raspberry Pi becomes best selling British computer (theguardian.com)
  The Guardian on Pi's new sales record
• A $35 Computer Can Do a Heck of a Lot (wsj.com)
  Wall Street Journal on the Raspberry Pi's motivation
• 500,000 Raspberry Pi 2 models sold (theinquirer.net)
  Eben tells The Inquirer the latest model already accounts for 1 in 10 sales
• Raspberry Pi is UK's best selling computer (wired.co.uk)
  Wired cover the latest Raspberry Pi news
• 'Learn to code' project for school kids in Kerala (daijiworld.com)
  More on the Raspberry Pi initiative in India

Upcoming Events

• 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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