Issue #8 — Rewired

This week we have some pretty awesome stuff lined up for you this week including a Raspberry Pi powered twitter client using a Wiimote and and a few other projects and websites.

This issue has been put together by Ryan from where Ben has been involved with various activities surrounding the Young Rewired State Festival of Code at Manchester’s centres.  YRS has been great – it’s brilliant to see so many young coders making awesome things – the presentations take place in Birmingham this weekend. Ryan’s been busy working on Rastrack Version 2 which launches next week.

We did see a Pi on BBC2 last night on Dara O’Brian’s Science Club, but no sign of Ben’s weather station. Maybe it’ll be in another episode – keep watching anyway as it’s such a cool show! Last night Dara reacted to the number of tweets mentioning the Pi and recommended everyone to get one! Watch last night’s episode on iPlayer.

Don’t forget, you can always email or tweet us your submissions.

Thanks

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Pi Crust is a breakout board for the Raspberry Pi that makes it easier to connect electronics

News

• Raspberry Pi now comes with NOOBS SD Card (raspberrypi.org)
  Buy a Pi with $5 8GB SD Cards Preloaded with NOOBS

Projects

• Twiimote (hakobaito.co.uk)
  Wesley Hill using a Wiimote and Pi to make a twitter controlled remote
• A Cheap Spying Tool With a High Creepy Factor (bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
  How to monitor all the wireless traffic emitted by nearby wireless devices
• Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Google Cloud Print server. (howtogeek.com)
  How To Geek shows how to use your Pi to connect Google Cloud Print
• Pi Crust - Connector for the Raspberry Pi (kickstarter.com)
  Pi Supply are kickstarting their latest project - a GPIO Breakout Connector
• WildPi - Using a Raspberry Pi to help monitor the wildlife. (wildlifegadgetman.com)
  A project using a Raspberry Pi to help monitor the wildlife

Articles & more

• PiRack GPIO Expander (electronicsweekly.com)
  Electronics Weekly's write up of the new Element 14 PiRack GPIO Multiplier
• Picast (geeky-gadgets.com)
  How to turn your Raspberry Pi into a Chromecast-like device
• Excitement in Computer Programming (raspberrypi.org)
  Matthew Bennett's guest post about Computer Programming
• Life With Pi Including 5 Raspberry Pi Projects (independent.co.uk)
  The Independent write up about making projects with the Raspberry Pi

Contact & Submissions

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