Issue #41 — Makey

Hi

This week Ben has been very busy working on the new Raspberry Pi website, which is due to launch next week. Ryan has been continuing to run his crowd funding campaign for budget Raspberry Robotics Kit.

Today is the last day to apply for free CPD Training delivered by the Foundation’s Education team at Pi Towers in Cambridge – so if you are a teacher in the UK who fancies a free training day of all things Raspberry Pi, check out Picademy.

Lots of kids around the country have been receiving the Pis they won in the Google Pi competition the Foundation recently ran.

Until Next Week

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

An interactive school wall display powered by Raspberry Pi and MakeyMakey – tweeted by Stuart

News

• PyGame on PyPy (morepypy.blogspot.co.uk)
  Raspberry Pi funded work on implementing core PyGame modules for PyPy
• Learning Python with Raspberry Pi (raspberrypi.org)
  Liz reviews Alex Bradbury and Ben Everard's Python Programming book
• Picademy (raspberrypi.org)
  Entries close today for Raspberry Pi's free CPD for teachers

Projects

• CPU Temperature Graphing (kimondo.co.uk)
  Adding a temperature graph to your Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi LSTP (recantha.co.uk)
  Network boot a classroom of Pis with Linux Terminal Server Project
• Native Carputers (technologytell.com)
  The latest Honda range has native HDMI displays, ideal for embedded Raspberry Pis
• Wiimote On Pi tutorial (youtube.com)
  The Raspberry Pi Guy uses a Wiimote with Python on Pi
• piDart (danielfett.de)
  An Electronic darts board with super powers

Articles & more

• Review of Adventures in Raspberry Pi (raspi.tv)
  A review from Alex on his son's experience with Carrie's Adventures book
• Pi Co-op Add-on board review (recantha.co.uk)
  Michael Horne reviews the Pi Co-op add-on board from dawn robotics
• Video wall recycling gold (ozteacher.com.au)
  A school in Australia have been recycling old monitors to create video walls
• Open Eyes and Raspberry Pis (ehi.co.uk)
  An open source electronic patient record system run on Raspberry Pis

Upcoming Events

• Potton Pi & Pints (12 April)
• University of Manchester Raspberry Jam (29 March)
• Preston Raspberry Jam (31 March)
• Norwich Raspberry Jam (1 April)
• Linux User Raspberry Jam (Poole) (5 April)
• Cambridge Education Jam (10 May)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (Adult Edition) (21 May)

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Contact & Submissions

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