Issue #89 — Magazine

Hi all

Today the Foundation announced that the MagPi team have handed over the community magazine to be run in-house, taking the magazine to a professional level. It’s still a free monthly PDF, but they hope to see it in the high street shops in day in some form. Download Issue 31 now!

Rachel and I also announced a new programme for young people: Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists. It’s a funded 12-month programme for 16-21 year olds to explore creative projects with technology and applications are now open.

I’m currently at NorDevCon – a developer conference in Norwich – speaking on the business track about how Raspberry Pi funds itself.

To those of you attending the Raspberry Pi birthday party this weekend – see you there!

Thanks to new sponsors PiJuice!

Ben

Picture of the week

Jason Barnett gets a limited edition blue Raspberry Pi as a wedding present from his new wife Jenn!

News

• Meet the new MagPi (raspberrypi.org)
  The MagPi goes in-house and gets a revamp
• Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists (raspberrypi.org)
  A new programme for creative young people
• MagPi Issue 31 (raspberrypi.org)
  The new issue 31 covers Pi 2, Minecraft, games development and Astro Pi
• Welcome James (raspberrypi.org)
  The Foundation welcomes Picademy graduate James Robinson to its education team

Projects

• Tangram (raspberrypi.org)
  An open source map rendering library
• A History of Raspberry Pi in Lego (raspberrypi.org)
  Raspberry Pi from concept to Astro Pi's visit to the ISS - in Lego
• Cable Shutter Release for Sony Cameras (scribblesandsnaps.com)
  Using the Pi to trigger a camera shutter with sensors
• Door Sensor (blog.initialstate.com)
  A Raspberry Pi project for kids
• Piana (hackaday.com)
  Musical Synthesis For The Raspberry Pi
• A Colorful Clock for Toddlers (hackaday.com)
  A parents' Pi project to teach their two year old to tell the time

Articles & more

• She Said Yes (raspberrypi.org)
  A Pi based marriage proposal
• Raspberry Pi creating new programmer revolution in Huddersfield (examiner.co.uk)
  Credit card device called Raspberry Pi helps everyday people control anything
• The machines that defined British computing (techrepublic.com)
  From the Spectrum, BBC Micro and Amstrad to...the Flan
• The Raspberry Pi 2 is a killer product (networkworld.com)
  10 reasons the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B is a killer product

Upcoming Events

• Central Florida Raspberry Jam (US) (28 February)
• Exeter Raspberry Jam (UK) (3 March)
• Raspberry Pi Day Almeria Jam (ES) (3 March)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (UK) (18 March)
• Roanoke Raspberry Jam US) (11 April)

Thanks to our sponsor

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Contact & Submissions

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