Issue #39 — Slash

Happy Pi Day, everyone! Today’s issue brought to you at 3.14pm

This week, Pi Towers was alerted of a new born baby – Lorna (Raspberry Pi Facebook, Google+ and trademarks) gave birth to Ronan Peter.

Here’s a video of Simon Singh talking about uses of Pi (mathematical, not Raspberry) in the Simpsons.

Have a slice of Pi.

Only 3 months and 14 days to Tau Day!

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Dave Honess from Raspberry Pi with Young Pioneers at the Big Bang Fair

News

• Element 14's Sound Card Available (techcrunch.com)
  The Wolfson audio card for Raspberry Pi is now available from Element 14
• Budget Robotics Kit for Raspberry Pi (indiegogo.com)
  Ryan's budget robotics kit is now being fundraised on Indiegogo

Projects

• Oreo Cookie Printer (youtube.com)
  3D printed filled Oreos at SXSW guided by what's trending on Twitter
• Happy Tappers (tumati.com)
  Hacking Christmas ornaments to dance to the beat using FFT
• Sound Wall (geeky-gadgets.com)
  Soundwall is an UPnP streamer that works as a speaker while being art

Articles & more

• Industrial Bitcoin Mining (raspberrypi.org)
  A warehouse of Pis mining bitcoins
• Raspberry Pi Projects Book (raspberrypi.org)
  Ben puts out the word about Mike and Andrew's Projects book
• Command Pi App (studiozoetekauw.nl)
  New Pi monitoring app for iOS

Upcoming Events

• Peterborough Raspberry Jam (15 March)
• Raspberry Jam Silicon Valley (15 March)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (19 March)
• Preston Raspberry Jam (31 March)
• University of Manchester Raspberry Jam (29 March)
• Linux User Raspberry Jam (Poole) (5 April)

Contact & Submissions

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