Issue #44 — Maynard

Friday 18 April 2014

Hi all This week the Foundation Education team ran their first Picademy – Pi-style teacher training led by Carrie Anne with workshops and talks by Clive, Ben, Dave, Eben, Craig Richardson and Matthew Manning. We hope you enjoy the long weekend! Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

The new look of the Raspberry Pi desktop – the preview of an upcoming desktop and window manager powered by Weyland/Weston

News

New Maynard Desktop (raspberrypi.org)
A preview of a new upcoming desktop in beta for the Raspberry Pi
MagPi Issue 22 (themagpi.com)
Solar tracking, quad copters, Laika Explorer, SQL, Lego and power function motors
Croosle (kickstarter.com)
Slovenia's all in one educational and experimental Raspberry Pi kit

Projects

Neo Geo Arcade (hackaday.com)
A Neo Geo arcade has been remade using a RPi as its brains
Raspberry Pi VPN Tutorial (readwrite.com)
A two-part piece on how and why to set up a Pi as a Virtual Private Network
Books (raspberrypi.org)
Digitising books with OCR & lego and making audio books with espeak
Mudra: A Braille Dicta-teacher (raspberrypi.org)
Mudra teaches Braille by translating speech to Braille symbols
Amateur Pi Telescope (blog.dragon-tortuga.net)
A low cost astrophotography device implementation, simple to build and uncomplicated
Neo Geo Arcade (hackaday.com)
A Pi Powered Arcade Emulator Cabinet

Articles & more

Picademy: Day One (swaygrantham.co.uk)
Sway Grantham's write-up of her experience at Picademy
FTP and XBMC (michaeltunnell.com)
Michael Tunnell demonstrates copying files to an XBMC Pi using FTP
Raspberry Pi as a Poor Man's Transputer (jacquesmattheij.com)
Massive parallel systems and compute fabrics with the Compute Module
Enhance Your Connected Home (readwrite.com)
How Arduino and Raspberry Pi can enhance your connected home - on the cheap

Contact & Submissions

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