Issue #2 — Growth

Welcome to the second issue of Pi Weekly. When we launched last week we had 13 subscribers, now we have over 350! Thanks for all the ReTweets, follows, shout outs – and thanks to those who sent in links. For most of you, this is the first issue you’ve received, so we hope you enjoy it.

How apt that Pi Weekly #2 should come out on Tau Day (tau = 2*pi)! Why not celebrate by buying two Raspberry Pis and donating one to Malawi?

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

RAPIRO: The Humanoid Robot Kit for your Raspberry Pi by Shota Ishiwatari

News

• A New Trustee at the Raspberry Pi Foundation (raspberrypi.org)
  The Raspberry Pi Foundation welcomes Louis Glass to the board
• Cambridge GCSE Computing Online (cambridgegcsecomputing.org)
  A new OCR GCSE course supported by RPF and Cambridge University Press
• Eben Awarded Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal (telegraph.co.uk)
  Creator of the Raspberry Pi awarded for significant commercial success

Projects

• Getting Hulu / Vimeo to stream via the Pi (stevenhickson.blogspot.co.uk)
  Steve gets Hulu, Vimeo and Youtube to stream via the Pi without XBMC
• RAPIRO Humanoid Robot Kit for the Raspberry Pi (kickstarter.com)
  A kickstarter for a Raspberry Pi controlled Humanoid robot
• Pi-Rex Bark activated door! (davidhunt.ie)
  Dave H builds an awesome door opener that opens when his dog barks!
• RasPiCamCorder 2 (raspi.tv)
  Alex Eames explains his Raspberry Pi Camcorder Mk2 with Dropbox support
• Solar Powered Raspberry Pi (pi.qcontinuum.com)
  A web server running fully off solar power

Articles & more

• Interactive RPi GPIO Site (pi.gadgetoid.com)
  A comprehensive starter guide to learning about your Raspberry Pi's GPIO pins
• PiMiner Raspberry Pi Bitcoin Miner (learn.adafruit.com)
  Adafruit Learning System guides us through using a Raspberry Pi to mine Bitcoin
• Benchmarking the Raspberry Pi Model B (servethehome.com)
  Patrick Kennedy dives in to Pi performance benchmarks using the Linux test suite

Contact & Submissions

This newsletter is curated by @ben_nuttall. Tweet links to @rpf_weekly or email weekly [at] raspberrypi.org