Issue #59 — Hat

Hi all

This week Ben has been helping run the YRS centre at Pi Towers with Carrie Anne & volunteers David Whale, Brian Corteil & Paul Hallett. Ben, Carrie Anne and Rachel are currently en route to Plymouth for the weekend where all the YRS centres will present their hacks at the Festival of Code! Remember last year?

Ryan has been busy this week working on his company and robot kits.

Thanks to our sponsors this week, Tonido!

On Monday Ben flies to New York where he’ll start his Raspberry Pi US Tour – so next week’s issue will come to you from North Carolina, USA! See more info on the blog.

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

The winning picture by Andrew Mulholland for the Adafruit Photo Competition

News

• Introducing Raspberry Pi HATs (raspberrypi.org)
  Hardware Attached on Top - how to make add-on boards the way the pros do it
• Sonic Pi Competiton (raspberrypi.org)
  Sonic Pi competition announced for September - code music, win Pis
• Education Fund Now Open (raspberrypi.org)
  Apply for funding for your educational project
• New Morse Code Resource (raspberrypi.org)
  New resource from Dave using a Morse Code tapper with Pi & GPIO
• Pi in the Sky (raspberrypi.org)
  Dave Akerman's high altitude ballooning project as an add-on board
• Hover (justhover.com)
  A new way to interact with an application using hand and touch support
• Adafruit Photography Competition Winners (adafruit.com)
  Winners of the Adafruit Raspberry Pi photography competition announced

Projects

• Monitoring SD Card Usage (techrapid.co.uk)
  How to monitor the SD card usage on a Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi Arcade (rs-online.com)
  DesignSpark's tutorial for building a Pi arcade machine

Articles & more

• Turning consumers into producers (wired.co.uk)
  Eben on the nature of the modern hacker culture
• The Making of the B+ (raspi.today)
  An exclusive interview with James Adams, the designer of the Model B+
• New Raspberry Pi PSU (raspi.today)
  A new Raspberry Pi PSU hits the shelves of the Swag store

Upcoming Events

• Raspberry Jam Berlin (DE) (2 August)
• Preston Raspberry Jam (UK) (4 August)
• Code In The Classroom (NC, USA) (7 August)
• Peterborough Raspberry Jam (UK) (9 August)
• Southend Raspberry Jam (UK) (16 August)
• Manchester Raspberry Jam (UK) (30 August)
• Cambridge Raspberry Jam (UK) (6 September)
• PyConUK (Coventry, UK) (19 - 22 September)

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