Issue #52 — Pocket

Welcome to Issue #52

This brings our first year to an end. Thanks to all who’ve supported us over the last 12 months – we’ve both come a long way since then. Ryan’s had two successful crowdfunding campaigns for his motor board and robot kit, and Ben moved from Manchester to Cambridge to join the Foundation where he overhauled the Raspberry Pi website.

Today we have a huge bumper issue in store for you – plenty of links and a whole host of upcoming Jams!

Read all about how Pi Weekly got off the ground in this article Ben wrote back in October: Pi Weekly: Evolution, MVP and my Dream Job, go back and take a look at our very first issue: #1 – Seed, and have a browse through our extensive Archive!

…Or see them all here: Seed, Growth, Picturesque, Microwave, Bicycle, Lumberjack, Science, Rewired, Festival, Mario, Stratos, Party, Berlin, Pneumatic, Minecraft, BMO, Million, Infrared, Pumpkinry, Japan, Moustache, Woz, Manchester, Fashion, Cambridge, Hipster, Postal, Actually, Bumblebee, Dalek, Astronaut, Danger, Panflute, Belgium, Africa, Cannon, Jamboree, Opening, Slash, Academy, Makey, Life, Compute, Maynard, Telephone, Heston, Dinosaur, Ronald, Ambiance, Usage, Lemsip!

Ben ran short workshops with Lance and Clive for a CodeClub event yesterday, where kids got a taster of different programming environments and technologies.

Also this week Ryan turned 18 and Ben got a new t-shirt. Apt as Pycoders Weekly was the main inspiration for Pi Weekly!

Brilliant news this week as the Foundation announced hitting the 3 million sales mark – casually slipped in to a post about presenting the Raspberry Pi at Buckingham Palace.

Here’s looking ahead to Issue #104!

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Slotting a Raspberry Pi inside the slender GameBoy Pocket casing to reincarnate it as a new type of games console

News

• Buckingham Palace & 3 Million Units Sold (raspberrypi.org)
  Liz, Eben and Craig at the Buckingham Palace Tech Reception
• MagPi Issue 24 (themagpi.com)
  Issue 24 features coverage of Picademy, a Raspberry Pi Scope and Turtle Graphics
• Sherlybox Private Cloud (kickstarter.com)
  Raspberry Pi compute module powered private cloud box on Kickstarter
• Case4-Kits and HapPi-Robot (kickstarter.com)
  Less than a week to go on this extensible Raspberry Pi robot kit Kickstarter
• Matboard (kickstarter.com)
  Kickstarter for easy to use GPIO board put together by Father & Son
• MyPiFi LED Board (kickstarter.com)
  Kickstarter for a basic GPIO LED add-on board
• Ben Gets a New T-shirt (twitter.com)
  Ben got a new t-shirt from Python newsletter Pycoders Weekly

Projects

• Raspberry Pi Gameboy Pocket (geeky-gadgets.com)
  The Pi inside a GameBoy Pocket reincarnates the games console in Pi style
• Building A Castle In Minecraft (raspberrypi-spy.co.uk)
  Using the Python API to build a castle in Minecraft
• Running .NET Applications on Raspberry Pi (blogs.msdn.com)
  Using Mono on Pi and deploying .NET projects to MS cloud platform Azure
• Raspberry Pi as Squeezebox (robertsaunders.org.uk)
  Streaming services media centre system running on a Pi
• Raspberry Pi Powered Dice Roller (intridea.com)
  Twitter driven physical dice rolling machine powered by a Pi
• Game of Thrones NIntendo Keytar (raspberrypi.org)
  Theremin Hero's keytar hack with a NES and a Pi
• Alarm Clock for the Deaf (raspberrypi.org)
  80s style giant alarm clock for the deaf
• MashBerry (sebastian-duell.de)
  Pi-based beer brewing controller with web interface and IR remote

Articles & more

• 3 Millionth Raspberry Pi Sold (makezine.com)
  Matt from Make looks at the state of Raspberry Pi now it's hit 3 million sales
• Why Python is a Great First Language (blog.trinket.io)
  Elliot from Trinket on the pros of learning programming with Python
• Raspberry Pi Sales Hit Three Million (theinquirer.net)
  The Inquirer on Raspberry Pi's 3 million milestone announcement
• Libertyville Computer Whiz Has Big Plans (therepublic.com)
  13 year old Pi fan from Illanois teaches programming and computer building
• Build Your Own Private Cloud (zdnet.com)
  ZDnet on compute module based private cloud Kickstarter Sherlybox
• Introduction to Linux (youtube.com)
  Raspberry Pi featured in this Linux Intro video by Linus Torvalds
• Scheduling with Cron (trevorappleton.blogspot.co.uk)
  Learn about Linux task scheduling with this tutorial on Cron
• Seeing Spaces (vimeo.com)
  Bret Victor discusses ideas of a more interactive environment for makers

Upcoming Events

• Potton Pi & Pint (14 June)
• Glasgow Science Festival Raspberry Jam (14 June)
• Torbay Raspberry Pi & Arduino Jam (14 June)
• Central Florida Raspberry Pi Users Group (14 June)
• Falkirk Raspberry Jam (16 June)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (students) (18 June)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (adults) (18 June)
• Raspberry Jam Silicon Valley (21 June)
• Southend Raspberry Jam (21 June)
• Melbourne Raspberry Jam (22 June)
• Raspberry Jam Berlin (5 July)
• Preston Raspberry Jam (7 July)
• Peterborough Raspberry Jam (9 August)

Contact & Submissions

This newsletter is curated by @ben_nuttall. Tweet links to @rpf_weekly or email weekly [at] raspberrypi.org