Issue #38 — Opening

Hi everyone

This week we’re recovering from the Jamboree – we had a great time and hope everyone else did. Ben attended the Jam Hack Day on Saturday at Edge Hill which involved many young people working on great projects – and many prizes were given away.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation education team revealed their new GitHub organisation: raspberrypilearning where they will manage the educational resources to be included in the new website. Pull Requests welcome! This was announced along with a taster of some material, which was delivered especially for the Hour of Code week.

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

The next official Raspberry Pi product: a 7″ capacitive touch display using the DSI port, on show at the Jamboree (also seen at Embedded World). Expected to be under £50.

News

• Broadcom Gives Developers Keys to the VideoCore Kingdom (blog.broadcom.com)
  Broadcom released documentation for the VideoCore IV and graphics stack source
• A Birthday Present from Broadcom (raspberrypi.org)
  Broadcom's announcement and a $10,000 bounty to get Quake III running
• DSI Display Prototype (twitter.com)
  The prototype Raspberry Pi 7" capacitive touch display was on show at the Jamboree
• The Hour of Code and All Things Educational (raspberrypi.org)
  Clive, Carrie Anne and Ben talk Hour of Code, education and hint at things to come
• Raspberry Pi Hour of Code Resources (raspberrypi.org)
  A taster of Raspberry Pi's learning resources - in time for Hour of Code week
• MagPi Issue 21 (raspberrypi.org)
  Issue 21 of the MagPi is out now, featuring an interview with Eben
• OpenELEC 4.0 Beta Released (openelec.tv)
  The OpenELEC team announces its first Beta of OpenELEC 4.0

Projects

• Raspberry Web Server (raspberrywebserver.com)
  Tips and Tricks fpr running websites on your Pi
• K9 Robot (gwfrontiers.blogspot.co.uk)
  William Reichardt built a robotic dog with Raspberry Pi and Arduino
• The Quantified Fish (readwrite.com)
  Move over cats and dogs; the Internet of Things for fish is here

Articles & more

• RasPi.TV at the Raspberry Jamboree (raspi.tv)
  Alex Eames blogged and photographed his enjoyment at the Jamboree
• Finding Your Raspberry Pi’s System Information (maketecheasier.com)
  How to show system info, usage and load on your Raspberry Pi
• The Hour of Code: Why We Should Get With the Program (theguardian.com)
  How hard is coding, and why should we all be doing it?
• Recantha Jamboree Write-up (recantha.co.uk)
  Michael Horne's coverage of the Jamboree in Manchester
• Seven Segments of Pi (recantha.co.uk)
  A post from Nevil Hunt on use of the Seven Segments project in the classroom
• A Pi Bank for Sheffield Schools (pi.gate.ac.uk)
  Sheffield University are providing local schools with Pi kits
• Recycled computers to boost Norwich schools (edp24.co.uk)
  A city council initiative will see Raspberry Pi computers distributed to Norwich schools
• RasPi.TV DSI Prototype Preview (raspi.tv)
  Alex Eames (creator of HDMIPI) takes a look at the official DSI display

Upcoming Events

• Torbay Raspberry Jam (8 March)
• Peterborough Raspberry Jam (15 March)
• Raspberry Jam Silicon Valley (15 March)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (19 March)
• Preston Raspberry Jam (31 March)
• Linux User Raspberry Jam (Poole) (5 April)

Contact & Submissions

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