Issue #85 — Muppet

Hi all

I’m currently in Brussels for FOSDEM where thousands of software developers will be gathering for a weekend of great talks about all things free and open source.

The Raspberry Pi Birthday Party his now completely sold out! If you’re lucky enough to have a ticket, there’s some useful information about hotels, travel and such at raspberrypi.org/birthday

The Computing History Museum tweeted this interesting picture of an interactive vintage TV display using a Raspberry Pi.

Flotilla is still soaring – if you haven’t seen the kickstarter yet do check it out! flotil.la

Ben

Picture of the week

Video review of a hand-held Raspberry Pi games console by a muppet

News

• Birthday Weekend (raspberrypi.org)
  Updates from the birthday party team about next month's big event
• Adafruit DC & Stepper Motor HAT (blog.adafruit.com)
  A new HAT from Adafruit for controlling stopper motors

Projects

• Build your own all-in-one thin client for £100 (blogs.citrix.com)
  The Pi makes a great budget thin client workstation
• Raspberry Pi remote control with Telegram (instructables.com)
  Message your Pi a keyword and have it perform a particular function
• Weather Checking Traffic Light Project (imgur.com)
  Salvaged traffic light set checks the weather and tells your kids how to dress
• Browse Anonymously with a DIY Raspberry Pi VPN/TOR Router (makezine.com)
  Surf the Internet securely with your very own portable WiFi VPN/TOR router
• DIY Atlas 3D scanner (slashgear.com)
  DIY Atlas 3D scanner uses Raspberry Pi for high resolution scanning

Articles & more

• Education, space, hacking and explosions - Bett 2015 (raspberrypi.org)
  A review in pictures of the Foundation's efforts at BETT 2015
• Handheld games console - for REAL dummies (raspberrypi.org)
  Presentation of the Raspberry Pi as a hand-held console from a muppet
• The Benton Park Live Coding Orchestra (raspberrypi.org)
  Sonic Pi orchestra live coding performance from Benton Park School in Leeds
• Getting started with Resin.io (vimeo.com)
  Deploy, update, and maintain code running on remote devices
• Raspberry Pi at BETT 2015 (news.sean.co.uk)
  Sean McManus's write-up of his experience at BETT last week
• St. Louis Raspberry Jam - Fox (fox2now.com)
  Awkward but informative interview about the new Jam in St. Louis
• Raspberry Pi vs. Beaglebone Black Performance (blog.initialstate.com)
  Interesting CPU usage stats in tests on the Pi and Beaglebone

Upcoming Events

• North Staffordshire Raspberry Jam (UK) (2 February)
• Mechelen Raspberry Jam (BE) (12 February)
• Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam 9 (UK) (14 February)
• Southend Raspberry Jam (UK) (21 February)
• Raspberry Pi Official Birthday Party (UK) (28 February - 1 March)
• Covent Garden Jam II (UK) (28 February)
• HacDC's Raspberry Jam (US) (28 February)
• Canberra Raspberry Pi (AU) (6 March)
• MORE Raspberry Jam, Missouri (US) (14 March)
• QE Raspberry Jam, York (UK) (25 April)

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