Issue #114 — Stan

Hi all

Last week Clive was in Amsterdam at the Scratch conference where he and he son Stan ran Raspberry Pi workshops.

This week the team’s been busy preparing things for both Astro Pi and Skycademy – it’s all go at Pi Towers.

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Picture of the week

Stan – son of Clive Beale, delivered Raspberry Pi workshops at the Scratch conference in Amsterdam

News

• Skycademy Update (raspberrypi.org)
  An update on the Foundation's upcoming high altitude ballooning course
• The TRS-80 model 100 goes online (raspberrypi.org)
  Giving old hardware new life with a Pi
• Formula AllCode – robotics course (raspberrypi.org)
  Pi Robotics course on KickStarter
• Raspberry PI 2 Cluster Assembly Tutorial (pocketcluster.wordpress.com)
  Tutorial and schematics for building a Pi 2 cluster
• New Version of Raspberry Pi Thin Client (hackaday.com)
  Update to a project to create a very low price thin client over Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi gains new FreeBSD distribution (theregister.co.uk)
  RaspBSD debuts on the Raspberry Pi
• RetroPiE 3.0 (electronicsweekly.com)
  Update to game emulation distribution - and a GPIO adapter

Projects

• Joker (raspython.org)
  A Raspberry Pi joke telling machine using the Adafruit LCD plate and pyjokes
• Wine Barrel Arcade Cabinet (kotaku.com.au)
  An Australian took a wine barrel and turned it into an arcade cabinet
• Guard your home with Raspberry Pi (techradar.com)
  Building an intruder alert and CCTV system with a Pi
• Build a Raspberry Pi Powered Home Arcade (makezine.com)
  Play all your favorite 8-bit video games with MAME and an Arduino Esplora controller
• People Counter (instructables.com)
  How to build a People Counter with Raspberry Pi and Ubidots
• Now your Raspberry Pi can water your lawn (opensource.com)
  Automate the watering of your lawn with Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi Photobooth (instructables.com)
  A Pi photobooth project from the Sydney Mini Maker Faire

Articles & more

• Australia & Singapore Pioneering Education Tour (raspberrypi.org)
  Carrie Anne's time in the Southern hemisphere
• Twitter for dogs (raspberrypi.org)
  Talking and social networking dogs
• PianoHAT review (recantha.co.uk)
  Mike Horne gives the Piano HAT a stunning review
• Oxford Flood Network (oxfloodnet.co.uk)
  Raspberry Pis with sensors looking out for the people of Oxford

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