Issue #61 — Louis

Howdy y’all

Ben is currently in St. Louis, Missouri where he’s still touring the US on his Raspberry Pi outreach mission. He’s spoken in schools, universities and hackspaces about the Raspberry Pi, the Foundation and its use in education. By next week he’ll have reached his final destination of Salt Lake City, Utah and will be flying home!

This week Ryan launched a KickStarter project for a Pi-less budget robot kit called TurtlTeck.

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Ben speaking at LVL1 in Louisville, Kentucky

News

• Slice (kickstarter.com)
  A shiny compute module based media centre box from 5 Ninjas
• New Picademy Dates (raspberrypi.org)
  Details and information how to apply for Picademy Sept & Oct '14
• PiWars! (raspberrypi.org)
  Robots, Pi, Cambridge Jam, All blended up to make Pi Wars!
• Sonic Pi Speaker (thepihut.com)
  ThePiHut's latest product is ideal for Sonic Pi.

Projects

• Grandad's Audio Book Reader (gist.github.com)
  How he built an audio book reader for his nearly blind grandfather
• Smartphone Rocket Launcher (makezine.com)
  A make project to launch a rocket using the Pi over the web
• Pi On The Wall Part 3 (labs.domipheus.com)
  A great blog post on lowering power usage on a Pi

Articles & more

• Ben Nuttall of Raspberry Pi Foundation Visits FirstBuild (firstbuild.com)
  Write-up of Ben's visit to FirstBuild in Louisville, Kentucky
• Can Hackers Help Save North Korea? (fastcolabs.com)
  Using Raspberry Pi to provide digital liberty to North Koreans
• Another 5 Things to Do... (raspi.today)
  After setting your Raspberry Pi up as suggested by the community

Upcoming Events

• Southend Raspberry Jam (UK) (16 August)
• Manchester Raspberry Jam (UK) (30 August)
• Cambridge Raspberry Jam (UK) (6 September)
• Raspberry Jam Berlin (DE) (13 September)
• PyConUK (Coventry, UK) (19 - 22 September)

Contact & Submissions

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