Issue #103 — Garden

Hi all

This week I’ve been in Liverpool setting up the Neurotic Machines exhibit at FACT (the Foundation of Art and Creative Technology) in Liverpool with Rachel. It’s now open to the public so if you’re in Liverpool do go and see it! There’s a planet simulator control panel, a vertical garden and a set of capacitive touch musical plant pots. More details coming to the Raspberry Pi blog soon. There are also workshops for personal robotic plant monitoring devices to go alongside the exhibition – sign up for them free at fact.co.uk.

Also this week, the rest of the Foundation’s Education Team ran Picademy South West in Exeter, and announced the upcoming Picademy #11 in Cambridge in July – applications are now open.

Ben

Picture of the week

The planet simulator control panel, part of Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Neurotic Machines exhibit in the Build Your Own exhibition on display at Liverpool’s FACT – created by Rachel Rayns

News

• Apply now for Picademy in July (raspberrypi.org)
  Applications for the next Picademy in Cambridge now open
• Ant-Man: Micro-Tech Challenge (raspberrypi.org)
  Raspberry Pi and Marvel come together for this competition for US High School girls
• Build Your Own - Tools for Sharing (fact.co.uk)
  The new Build Your Own exhibition in Liverpool features Raspberry Pi artwork

Projects

• Beer/Wine Fridge of Awesomeness (blog.initialstate.com)
  Monitor your beer or wine fridge with Initial State
• Pi-Booth (roowilliams.github.io)
  A Raspberry Pi powered photobooth controlled via your smartphone
• Animalcam version 2 (garysshed.co.uk)
  Capturing animals on camera with Raspberry Pi
• Raspnode (geeky-gadgets.com)
  Building a Bitcoin Full Node with Raspberry Pi
• Build Your Own Amazon Dash (lifehacker.com.au)
  Re-order your essentials with a Pi powered Amazon Dash
• The IT-box (kickstarter.com)
  Backup anything anywhere automatically and relax

Articles & more

• Hollywood, now with added Pi (raspberrypi.org)
  Raspberry Pi features in the new Point Break film trailer
• Maker Faire Bay Area 2015 (raspberrypi.org)
  A round-up of the Pi team's visit to San Francisco for Maker Faire
• A wheelchair controlled by eye movements (raspberrypi.org)
  Controlling a wheelchair with eye movement using Pi 2
• Pipsta Raspberry Pi printer review (expertreviews.co.uk)
  A neat but expensive project printer for Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi As Your Next Linux PC (datamation.com)
  Is a Raspberry Pi capable of becoming a proper replacement for a desktop PC?
• Emulator now runs x86 apps on all Raspberry Pi models (linuxgizmos.com)
  x86 Emulation for Raspberry Pi

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