Issue #56 — Hamster

Hi everyone

Last weekend Ben attended this Cambridge Jam where he spoke about contributing to learning resources on GitHub, and gave a Python Picamera and GPIO workshop.

This week Ryan has also been using his new CNC mill on Babbage…

Meanwhile Carrie Anne revealed a learning resource she’s been working on – based on an idea that came in with the poster competition in January. Hamster Party Cam is a make resource for capturing the movements of a hamster at night.

Our mystery sponsor remains – we’re very intrigued by Flotilla! Coming soon to Kickstarter.

Also we just realised we’ve now hit the 8,000 subscriber mark – welcome, newcomers!

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Ryan CNC milling his Babbage

News

• The Camjam Edukit (raspberrypi.org)
  £5 kit of electronics bits for an easy entry to physical computing
• NOOBS 1.3.9 Release (raspberrypi.org)
  A small NOOBS bugfix and a new Pidora image
• MicroNFCBoard (kickstarter.com)
  This NFC board allows to use Python on Pi to connect to other NFC devices
• Hamster Party Cam (raspberrypi.org)
  New learning resource from Carrie Anne on watching hamsters at night

Projects

• Tetris Dual (raspberrypi.org)
  Two player bare metal tetris from Imperial College students
• Cheese Controlled Car (conoroneill.net)
  MaKey MaKey and Pi allows you to steer a race car with cheese
• Operation Counterstrike (raspberrypi-spy.co.uk)
  A Minecraft game for the Pi involving randomly placed TNT blocks
• Add a Virtual Keyboard to a Raspberry Pi (ozzmaker.com)
  Matchbox-keyboard is an on screen virtual keyboard which works well for TFTs
• Anti-Cat Garden Sprinkler System (theregister.co.uk)
  Using the Pi to detect cats in your garden and hosing them down

Articles & more

• Wayland: tomorrow’s graphics tech today (raspi.today)
  A look at Maynard - Raspberry Pi's Wayland window manager
• Hero hacks (infoworld.com)
  A seclection of 14 Raspberry Pi projects in brief
• Think outside the box on source code (electronicsweekly.com)
  Processor suppliers making a difference to the way their chips are adopted
• How businesses are getting creative with the Raspberry Pi (techrepublic.com)
  How the Pi is being used to create custom appliances to solve business problems

Upcoming Events

• Malvern Raspberry Jam (adults) (16 July)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (students) (16 July)
• Manchester Raspberry Jam 21 (19 July)
• Horsham Raspberry Jam (20 July)
• Peterborough Raspberry Jam (9 August)
• Southend Raspberry Jam (16 August)
• PyConUK (Coventry) (19 - 22 September)

Thanks to our sponsor

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