Issue #3 — Picturesque

Hello! Hope you found something useful and interesting in last week’s issue. We try to keep the list rather concise, so only what we decide are top quality links make it to the final draft. We’d rather that than list out absolutely everything we find, and send you links to pages we haven’t read, blind to the quality of their content.

There’s quite a photography theme to this issue – so many interesting uses for the first official add-on for the Raspberry Pi. Ben has been making some time-lapses out of photos from his roof – got a good one last night of the sun setting over a new glass building in Manchester! The pictures are compiled these in to a video – take a look.

This week we found a video from the AT&T Bell Labs archive from the 1980s – of Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie explaining the UNIX operating system (on which Linux is based) and the foundation of modern programming and software development. It’s a fascinating video – their aims and the problems they’re trying to solve are as relevant today as they were 30 years ago! We wouldn’t have the Pi without these essential foundations.

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Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

One of Mike Cook’s microscope images using his Pi camera

News

• American Pi Hackspace Tour (raspberrypi.org)
  RPF evangelist Rob Bishop is touring the US again, giving talks and doing Q&As
• MagicPlay Creator Crafts Raspberry Pi Demo (theregister.co.uk)
  MagicPlay, the open source alternative to Apple's AirPlay, now on Raspberry Pi
• Five Minutes with Eben Upton (guardian.co.uk)
  The Guardian interview Eben about the challenges setting up the Foundation

Projects

• Fairywren Board (techhive.com)
  The Fairywren board turns your Raspberry Pi into a full-fledged desktop computer
• Two Player Graphical Chess in Assembly (raspberrypi.org)
  A graphical Chess game developed for the Pi in Assembly, without an OS
• Microscopy with the Camera Board (element14.com)
  "Grumpy" Mike Cook gets incredible microscope images using his Pi camera
• Building an Internet Radio with the Raspberry Pi (syd711.github.io)
  Mephisto II is a vintage audio player using Google Music in a 1932 radio box

Articles & more

• Macro Photography with the Camera Board (raspberrypi.org)
  Rob and Liz guide us through unscrewing the lens to adjust the focal depth
• Python Reaction Game Material (github.com)
  Joseph Haig's Code Club material for making a GPIO Reaction Game in Python
• Arduino Uno vs BeagleBone vs Raspberry Pi (makezine.com)
  Make compares the Pi with alternative boards: Arduino Uno and BeagleBone

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