Issue #37 — Jamboree

Today is the last day before Raspberry Pi’s birthday. Tomorrow is the day after Raspberry Pi’s birthday.

Ben and Ryan are at the Jamboree in Manchester! This is day two of the event and it continues tonight with the birthday party, and over to Edge Hill in Ormskirk for the Jam Hack Day. Earlier this week, Ben gave a Pi talk to Master’s students at Hyper Island, a creative digital school (slides here).

Ben gave a Python picamera workshop with Dave Jones yesterday, and gave the opening keynote this morning with Carrie Anne and BJn, with their talk Pioneering the future of Computing Education (slides here) announcing some developments the Foundation are working on, like the features of the new website. He’ll also be taking part in a panel discussion on Raspberry Jams.

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Ben and Carrie Anne give their opening address at the Raspberry Jamboree

News

• Linux Voice Released (linuxvoice.com)
  New community FLOSS magazine Linux Voice arrived in paper and digital form this week
• New book: Learning Python with Raspberry Pi (amazon.co.uk)
  Alex Bradbury and Ben Everard's new book Python on Pi is available for pre-order
• PiFace Real Time Clock (piface.org.uk)
  New product from Piface: Let your Raspberry Pi keep track of time, just £5

Projects

• Graphic Equialiser (raspberrypi.org)
  Make a spectrum analyser with an RGB LED strip
• DIY With Raspberry Pi And 3D Printing (shapeways.com)
  Some really interesting 3D printed Raspberry Pi case designs
• Nighttime Wildlife Cam (smstextblog.blogspot.co.uk)
  Using the Pi Noir and an IR sensor to capture movement at night
• GameBoy Cosplay (raspberrypi.org)
  Taking wearables to a new level: Pi-powered playable GameBoy costume

Articles & more

• Raspberry Pi Guy Workshops Sell Out (cambridge-news.co.uk)
  14 year old Matt Timmons-Brown put on Pi workshops that sold out
• RaspMap (raspmap.tsar.in)
  A map of the components of the Raspberry Pi board
• Back to BASIC at the Raspberry jamboree (makezine.com)
  A feature of the FUZE box as shown at the Jamboree
• Pursuing Ping Pong Balls at the Jamboree (makezine.com)
  Will Jessop's ping pong ball collecting robot in action at the Jamboree

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