Issue #23 — Manchester

Hi there

Last weekend Ben and Ryan finally got the chance to meet at Manchester Raspberry Jam XVI at Madlab – Ben’s last Jam before he moves to Cambridge (also his 25th birthday)! This was well attended event, featuring special guests Liz & Eben Upton, Pete Lomas, Clive Beale, Dave Akerman, Alan O’Donahoe, Freaky Clown, Andrew Robinson and Paul Beech.

Everyone had a great time at the Jam – there was hacking as usual downstairs, and a full track of talks upstairs. Ben opened with a news, announcements and projects presentation, and was followed by talks and demos by a number of local Pioneers as well as those who had travelled for the occasion.

Also, during a Foundation panel Q&A at the Jam, Eben announced that they had reached the 2 million milestone! It’s not long since they announced the 1 million made in the UK – and now 2 million overall.

We have a couple of new kickstarter campaigns to announce – and news that Ryan’s crowdfunded mini budget motor board (featured on the Raspberry Pi website) successfully reached its goal.

Remember Eben is raising money for men’s health by growing a moustache for Movember. Please consider donating to the cause.

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Liz Upton, Eben Upton, Ben Nuttall, Ryan Walmsley, Pete Lomas, Amy Mather and Dan Mather at Manchester Raspberry Jam XVI

News

• Two Million Raspberry Pis Sold (raspberrypi.org)
  The announcement from the Foundation on hitting their latest sales milestone
• Kano: A Computer Anyone Can Make (kickstarter.com)
  Kickstarter computer kit from Kano aims to make the Pi more accessible
• PiRingo: Festive Fun for Raspberry Pi GPIO (kickstarter.com)
  PiRingo boards from 4tronix are a fun way to learn GPIO programming
• Wolfram Mathematica on Raspberry Pi for free (raspberrypi.org)
  Mathematica and the Wolfram Language will now ship with Raspbian

Projects

• Serving Raspberry Pi with Flask (mattrichardson.com)
  Using the Python web framework Flask to serve websites from a Pi
• Install Node on the Raspberry Pi in 5 minutes (joshondesign.com)
  How to install node.js on Raspbian with instructions from nodejs.org
• Build a Simple Time-lapse Camera in a Coffee Tin (instructables.com)
  The Raspberry Pi, camera and batteries are stuffed into a water-tight coffee tin
• Raspberry Pi Battery Backup (repairhub.co.uk)
  Step by step instructions on how to make a battery backup circuit

Articles & more

• 2m Units Sold Globally of Pocket Computer (theguardian.com)
  The Guardian cover the 2M mark news with a recap on where Pi's been
• Putting Wolfram and Mathematica on Every Raspberry Pi (blog.wolfram.com)
  Stephen Wolfram gifts the technical computing platform to the Pi community
• Two Million Raspberry Pis in the Wild (makezine.com)
  Make covered the milestone annoucement with a video from the Manchester Jam
• New Motor Controller Board Kit for the Raspberry Pi (recantha.co.uk)
  Michael Horne's plug of Ryan's new mini motor board add-on
• Interview with Eben Upton and Gordon Hollingworth (youtube.com)
  Eben and Gordon tell us about their lives and where they hope the Pi is going
• Fruitful Jam (pi.gate.ac.uk)
  Write-up of the Manchester Jam by Sheffield University's Hamish Cunningham
• Making a friendlier Raspberry Pi (bbc.co.uk)
  Alex Klein engaged on a mission to make the Raspberry Pi more user-friendly

Upcoming Events

• Raspberry Jam for Education (Birmingham) (14 December)

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