Issue #19 — Pumpkinry

Hey everyone

Last weekend Ben attended Oggcamp – a free culture unconference in Liverpool, where he met Raspberry Pi artist in residence Rachel Rayns. Despite spending most of the weekend rendered mute from the tail-end of a cold, he had a great time meeting people and catching up with friends from the Linux and open source tech community, as well as manning a Raspberry Pi demo room with “robot man” Jason Barnett. While Jason showed off what can be done with Pi-powered robots, Ben demonstrated Dave Jones‘s picamera Python module.

Meanwhile, on Saturday, Amy Mather from Manchester gave a Raspberry Pi presentation with Clive from the Foundation at the Wired UK conference in London – before heading back up North to join Ben and the others at Oggcamp on Sunday!

Last night Ben arrived in London for MozFest – a tech gathering at Mozilla’s offices, where he’ll be running a Raspberry Pi workshop with Sam Carlisle, who he met in Berlin. The event’s sold out – but if you’re attending, do drop by to say hello!

We’re seeing a number of halloween related Pi projects as we approach the end of the month – such as Ryan’s Pi pumpkin, this one, and another here from American reader Cody Erekson.

We also spotted a deal on Raspberry Pi ebooks from O’Reilly – 50% off until the end of October. There are some great titles available – check them out!

Until next time

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

14 year old Amy Mather presenting with Clive Beale at Wired Next Generation 2013 in London

News

• Future Is Here (corporateentrepreneurawards.com)
  Raspberry Pi won the 'Future Is Here' Award at the Corporate Entrepreneur Awards
• Inspiring Young Minds (wired.co.uk)
  Highlights from Wired Next Generation - including Amy and Clive presenting
• Radio Lollipop - Children's Hospital Radio (raspberrypi.org)
  Pi-powered radio for children's hospitals

Projects

• Yorick, the Talking Skull (raspberrypi.org)
  Tweet this Pi-powered skull and he'll read it aloud on livestream for halloween
• Analogue Sensors On The Raspberry Pi (raspberrypi-spy.co.uk)
  Analogue sensoring achieved using the MCP3008 ADC converter
• chipKIT Pi and the Arduino Motor Control Shield (chipkit.net)
  Demonstration of the chipKIT Pi with certain existing Arduino shields
• How to Run Minecraft on a Raspberry Pi (howtogeek.com)
  Minecraft on a Raspberry Pi for block building on the cheap
• PiTableTop Arcade (robmiles.com)
  A playable tabletop arcade game with a fitted screen and controls
• Raspberry Pi Cluster (raspberrywebserver.com)
  Notes on running a web server cluster of Raspberry Pis with a load balancer

Articles & more

• Hacking and Making (wired.co.uk)
  Hacking, making and magic: attacking the blank canvas and editing ideas
• Raspberry Jam: Going Back To School (techradar.com)
  Les Pounder interviews some successful Raspberry Jam organisers
• Breaking Out of the 'Maker Loop' (bbc.co.uk)
  A write-up of the BBC R&D Internet of Things workshop at Brunel University
• University Course Trades Textbook for Raspberry Pi (opensource.com)
  A replacement for the textbook in a class at the State University of New York
• 10 Amazing Raspberry Pi-based Kickstarter Projects (edn.com)
  More than $680,000 has been pledged for Raspberry Pi Kickstarter projects
• Fuze Case Review (linuxuser.co.uk)
  An add-on aiming to reignite the BBC Micro spark - reviewed by Linux U&D

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