Issue #1 — Seed

Welcome! This is the inaugural issue of the weekly newsletter for Raspberry Pi news & projects, by Pi enthusiasts Ben Nuttall and Ryan Walmsley. We’ll be sending one out to subscribers every Friday – we’ll cover community news, interesting projects we’ve found, blog articles, and occasionally innovative products or useful educational resources. Send your submissions to submissions@piweekly.net and tell all your friends about it!

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Jason Barnett‘s kickstarter add-on motor board MotorPiTX

News

• New Raspbian, Debian and Arch Linux Images (raspberrypi.org)
  Raspbian now has the Wayland preview available and improved Scratch
• NOOBS Released (raspberrypi.org)
  New Out Of the Box Software is an SD card image with a GUI OS selector
• Donate a Pi to Malawi (malawi.younginnovators.net)
  Young Innovators Malawi is a non-profit accepting donations towards Pi computer kits
• The XBMC Bundle is now here! (element14.com)
  Element 14 & Partners announce the XBMC Bundle is now on sale

Projects

• MotorPiTX - Motor Board for Raspberry Pi (kickstarter.com)
  Jason Barnett's robotics kickstarter reaches £1,500 goal in just 5 days
• A Raspberry Cloud (raspberrypicloud.wordpress.com)
  The University Of Glasgow are making their own Pi Cloud as a model Datacenter
• Ground Control - Manage and monitor your Pi with ease (jondot.github.io)
  Dotan Nahum creates an program to manage and monitor your Pi with ease
• RPi Development kit - A development box for RPi Projects (element14.com)
  A blog post about a project where a Raspberry Pi is turned into a development kit!
• Onion Pi - Make a Raspberry Pi Tor Proxy (adafruit.com)
  Browse anonymously anywhere you go with the Onion Pi Tor proxy
• Portable Raspberry Pi - Part 2 (youtube.com)
  Ben Heck completes his Portable Raspberry Pi Project

Articles & more

• Raspberry Pi on BBC Springwatch (bbc.co.uk)
  PiFace inventor Andrew Robinson on monitoring bird activity with a Raspberry Pi
• My Thoughts on the York Raspberry Jam (computingchampions.co.uk)
  Neil Rickus tells of his experience at the big Jam at the National STEM Centre
• Pi Duration Tests & Reviews (raspi.tv)
  RasPi.TV Reviews and tests two new battery packs by RS Electronics
• Test Results for performance of Scratch on a Model A (raspberrypi.org)
  A forum topic discussing the performance improvements in Scratch on Raspbian

Contact & Submissions

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