Issue #15 — Minecraft

Hi everyone

Ben has now returned from his holiday in Berlin and is now enjoying the last few days before he goes back to work. Check out his extensive blog post about the trip. Somehow he managed to accidentally leave a Raspberry Pi (complete with PI Lite and SD card) in with his washing when he got back. It’s currently drying out in a container of rice – he’ll try booting it to see if it still works!

Ryan announced his new project RPiDNS this week along with also working with Martin O’Hanlon and David Whale to import little Raspberry Pi markers into a Minecraft world from Rastrack.

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Image from Dave Akerman‘s LOHAN flight, taken by a Raspberry Pi camera through a wide-angle lens

News

• Introduction to the Raspberry Pi in Spanish (raspberrypi.org)
  Galileo University in Guatemala launch a free online Pi course
• Welcome Lance to the Foundation (raspberrypi.org)
  The Foundation welcomes its latest member, Lance Howarth
• Oracle Java now on Raspbian HF (raspberrypi.org)
  Oracle and Raspberry Pi announce a new Java HF package now available
• Raspi.Tv reaches 1 Million Views (raspi.tv)
  Alex explains his journey running Raspi.Tv

Projects

• Twitter LCD Python Project (charlottegodley.co.uk)
  A two-part post from Charlotte Godley using Adafruit's LCD display to show tweets
• PiGlow Web Remote Control (github.com)
  A project by Phil Howard allowing you to control your PiGlow from the browser
• WebGlow (github.com)
  Ryan's latest project uses the PiGlow to visualise connections to a web server
• PiCyborg (piborg.org)
  The PiBorg's Raspberry Pi powered Cyborg using their Pico Borg add-on
• Raspberry Pi Astro Blaster (peteronion.org.uk)
  Daniel Bull explains how he restored an old arcade machine controller with a Pi

Articles & more

• Raspberry Pi Spy's write up of Cambridge RasJam (raspberrypi-spy.co.uk)
  Matt's write-up and pictures from the Raspberry Jam in Cambridge
• SonicPi now launched! (cl.cam.ac.uk)
  Sonic Pi is new programming method teaching concepts through sound
• Minecraft Rastrack Mashup (stuffaboutcode.com)
  Minecraft UK Map Hosted on a Raspberry Pi with Rastrack

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