Issue #119 — Payload

Hi all

The MagPi Issue 38 is out – available in WHSmith and now Tesco, and as ever a free download from the MagPi website.

The two Astro Pi units have been shipped to ESA, ready for flight to the space station in December.

Ben

Picture of the week

Gordon holding the two Astro Pi units as they’re sent to ESA for preparation for space flight.

News

• MagPi Issue 38 (raspberrypi.org)
  Issue #38 of The MagPi magazine has landed
• Windows 10 Core Starter Pack for Raspberry Pi 2 (raspberrypi.org)
  Adafruit and Microsoft announce a Pi 2 IoT starter kit
• Sensly: an air quality monitoring HAT (raspberrypi.org)
  KickStarter for an IoT air quality monitoring device
• 21 Bitcoin Computer (21.co)
  Introducing the First Bitcoin Computer - powered by Pi 2

Projects

• Sense HAT Minecraft Map (raspberrypi.org)
  Use the Sense HAT to create a map of the world around your player in Minecraft Pi
• Gravity Simulator (raspberrypi.org)
  Learn about the effects of gravity and how to simulate them in Scratch
• RFID Music Robot (instructables.com)
  Buld your own Raspberry Pi based RFID Music Robot
• 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Security Camera (instructables.com)
  3D printed but professional looking Pi-powered CCTV camera
• Turning a Raspberry Pi into a portable streaming camera (opensource.com)
  Awesome portable camera project using the Pi

Articles & more

• Sci-Fi your Pi (raspberrypi.org)
  element14 Pi-themed movie magic competition judged by James Adams
• Guitar boy (raspberrypi.org)
  GameBoy Guitar / Guitar GameBoy hybrid
• Piper Lets Kids Design Circuits Using Minecraft And Electricity (techcrunch.com)
  Techcrunch piece on Piper's Raspberry Pi kit
• CamJam brings together Raspberry Pi enthusiasts (cambridge-news.co.uk)
  Cambridge News cover the recent CamJam event
• 20 awesome projects for Raspberry Pi (mnn.com)
  The DIY dream, custom cases, web servers, jukeboxes and more

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