Issue #81 — Radio

Hi everyone

Happy New Year! Pi Weekly started in 2013 so it’s great to continue to be active in 2015, closing in on our 100th issue.

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Picture of the week

Home made Raspberry Pi radio in a 3D printed case

News

• Changes to the Raspbian User Interface (raspberrypi.org)
  Simon Long explains the motivation behind changes to Raspbian
• Christmas Lectures (bbc.co.uk)
  Watch all three of the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures
• New QMU Macro Assembler (raspberrypi.org)
  A better toolchain for GPGPU on Pi

Projects

• Stream Temperature from Pi (blog.initialstate.com)
  Streaming temperature sensor data to a graph with Python
• Raspberry Pi Minecraft Server (instructables.com)
  Use your Pi as a Minecraft server
• Raspberry Pi Wireless Projector (instructables.com)
  Make a wireless projector for your Raspberry Pi
• 3D Printed Raspberry Pi Radio (3dprint.com)
  Make your own radio with a Raspberry Pi and 3D printed case

Articles & more

• Review of the year 2014 (recantha.co.uk)
  Mike Horne sums up all the Pi activity of 2014
• Horncastle inventor teaching a generation (horncastlenews.co.uk)
  Teaching success with Raspberry Pi and basic electronics
• Energenie Web App (pythonhosted.org)
  Create a simple web interface to control power sockets
• Basic Motor Control - Episode 1 (youtube.com)
  New robotics video from The Raspberry Pi Guy

Upcoming Events

• Orange Raspberry Micro Jam (FR) (2 January)
• Exeter Raspberry Jam (UK) (3 January)
• Preston Raspberry Jam (UK) (5 January)
• Darlington Raspberry Jam (UK) (10 January)
• Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam (UK) (10 January)
• Manchester Raspberry Jam 25 (UK) (17 January)
• Glasgow Raspberry Pi Day (UK) (17 January)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (UK) (17 December)
• Warwick Raspberry Jam (US) (19 January)
• Pi and More 6 (DE) (24 January)
• Egham Raspberry Jam (UK) (25 January)
• Stourbridge Raspberry Jam (UK) (31 January)
• Cache Valley Raspberry Jam (US) (31 January)
• Cotswold Raspberry Jam (UK) (31 January)
• Canberra Raspberry Pi (AU) (6 March)

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