Issue #76 — Jacket

Hi everyone

There are some interesting projects this week – with Zach Igielman’s PiPiano board, a suit jacket that records 360 degree video, the Hackaday competition entry’s open source raman spectrometer, wireless music management and more!

Also BBC’s Newsround covered teaching music with Sonic Pi.

Ben

Picture of the week

This Raspberry Pi powered Aposematic Jacket records 360 degree video

News

• Making music with Raspberry Pi (bbc.co.uk)
  Newsround on teaching music with Sonic Pi
• PiPiano (raspberrypi.org)
  Zach Igielman's musical add-on board
• Join Us at BETT 2015 (raspberrypi.org)
  The Foundation Education Team call for participants in the BETT Education Faire
• ramanPi (raspberrypi.org)
  An open source 3D-printable raman spectrometer

Projects

• PiPhone Tutorial (learn.adafruit.com)
  Steps to build your own Raspberry Pi smartphone
• Aposematic Jacket 360 (geeky-gadgets.com)
  This Raspberry Pi powered Aposematic Jacket records 360 degree video
• Control Your Hi-Fi Wirelessly (pcpro.co.uk)
  Using a Pi to wirelessly send music to your home stereo
• Ping Pong (fritzing.org)
  A Python and GPIO project to make ping pong with Raspberry Pi

Articles & more

• Training at Barnardo's Hub (raspberrypi.org)
  RPF funded vocational and informal learning centre
• A New Alliance: Barnado's and Raspberry Pi (uk2.net)
  Write-up of Barnado's workshop
• How a Quiet Florida School Library Got Transformed (edsurge.com)
  How a quiet Florida school library got transformed by a makerspace
• Waved IoT Platform for Everyone (techcrunch.com)
  Internet of Things web platform to make it easy to create a private device network

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