Issue #100 — Flight

Hi everyone

Welcome to this great milestone for Pi Weekly – this is Issue #100!

When I started the newsletter almost 2 years ago now, along with Ryan Walmsley, we had no idea how successful it would be, how many subscribers we’d get. I remember when we launched we had 350 subscribers sign up in the first week, then a few weeks later we got featured on the Raspberry Pi blog and subscribers soared to over 4,000. Now we have over 13,000 subscribers and an archive full of past issues to browse on the website.

Looking back at Issue #1, the stories of the week were NOOBS released, Donate a Pi to Malawi, MotorPiTX, Onion Pi, BBC Springwatch and the York Raspberry Jam, I’d have been surprised if I’d have been told that by Issue #99 I’d have featured both Ubuntu and Windows running on the Pi, seen Broadcom open source the graphics stack, two people turn the Pi into a mobile phone, a new model 6x faster than Model B, a new model even cheaper than Model A, the announcement that Raspberry Pis are going into space – and of course, me being hired by the Foundation and sending Issue #100 out from Maker Faire Bay Area in San Francisco!

Ben

Picture of the week

The Astro Pi flight case – manufactured especially for the Pi’s visit to the International Space Station

News

• Price cut! Raspberry Pi Model B+ now only $25 (raspberrypi.org)
  The still popular Model B+ has been reduced to just $25
• Astro Pi flight case (raspberrypi.org)
  Dave explains the most expensive Raspberry Pi case in the world
• The Sense HAT (raspberrypi.org)
  A close look at the Astro Pi hardware (Sense HAT)
• retroScreen (kickstarter.com)
  A cheap, versatile auxiliary screen for the Raspberry Pi
• RoboSnap (kickstarter.com)
  Provide vision for your LEGO robots

Projects

• 3D-printed Bow Tie Spy Camera (mashable.com)
  How to build a 3D-printed bowtie spy camera with a Raspberry Pi 2
• Raspberry Preserve (hackaday.com)
  A BitTorrent Sync client in a Mason Jar
• Solar Powered Off-the-grid Camera Beacon (instructables.com)
  Transmit live images from the camera over radio
• DIY Touchscreen Music Player for Your Car (popularmechanics.com)
  Replace the clunky FM radio in your car with a touchscreen media centre
• Despicable Katie’s Minion Pi (raspberrypi.org)
  11 year-old Katie's Pi powered 3D printer printing Minions
• Pi Boy Portable (thingiverse.com)
  Build your own portable handheld games console

Articles & more

• Coding the future: What will the future of computing look like? (bbc.com)
  BBC on Raspberry Pi, Astro Pi and the future of programming
• Happy Scratch Day 2015 (raspberrypi.org)
  Clive talks Scratch for World Scratch Day 2015
• Students get hands-on training in cyber security (thehindu.com)
  Cryptography training for students in India - with Raspberry Pi, Linux and Python

Upcoming Events

• Cache Valley Raspberry Jam, Utah (US) (19 May)
• KK Raspberry Jam (MY) (23 May)
• Huddersfield Raspberry Jam (UK) (23 May)
• Raspberry Pint, London (UK) (26 May)
• Raspberry Jam Mechelen (BE) (27 May)
• East Lothian Family Hack Jam (U (29 May)
• East Lothian Raspberry Jam (UK) (30 May)
• Southend-on-Sea Raspberry Jam (UK) (30 May)
• Melbourne Raspberry Jam (AU) (31 May)
• Preston Raspberry Jam (UK) (1 June)
• Covent Garden Raspberry Jam (UK) (20 June)

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