Issue #11 — Stratos

This week it seems that the internet has been invaded by one bear, Bionic Babbage. We would like to congratulate Dave Ackerman for the success of his breaking the world record for highest armateur live photo. If you didn’t already know, Dave is a Raspberry Pi enthusiast whose hobby it is to send Pis up on helium balloons to take pictures of the Earth. This time Babbage Bear (the Raspberry Pi mascot) manned the mission and took pictures along the way, before reconstructing Felix Baumgartner’s record breaking freefall. All this on a budget of £300 (compared to Red Bull’s £30,000,000).

Last night we heard the news that Raspberry Pi had won the INDEX Award for Education – which means a €100,000 prize for the Foundation to employ two people to join the team! I’m sure there’ll be more information on that to follow in time. The justification for them winning was stated in plenty of detail in an article from INDEX. See the link below – some of the quotes highlighted in the article are particularly prevalent. Congratulations to the Foundation for their achievement!

Yesterday Ben gave a short presentation about Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Jams at an event at Madlab – he’s given so many now, it’s second nature just to stand in front of pictures of Jams and Pi projects and tell the stories.

Thanks

Ben and Ryan

Picture of the week

Babbage, the Raspberry pi mascot, successfully reconstructed Felix Baumgartner’s record breaking freefall

News

• Giant Leap for Pi-powered Teddy Bear (bbc.co.uk)
  The BBC's coverage of Dave Ackerman's Stratos project
• Raspberry Pi - INDEX Award Winner (designtoimprovelife.dk)
  Why Raspberry Pi won the €100,000 INDEX Award for Education
• Raspberry Pi-based FUZE Computers (techradar.com)
  A new Raspberry Pi workstation featuring an integrated Model B Pi is being launched
• Raspberry Pi Design Challenge Launched (electronicsweekly.com)
  UK Schools invited to the second Raspberry Pi programming competition

Projects

• The World’s Smallest Working Macintosh (cultofmac.com)
  A Raspberry Pi, PVC, off-the shelf parts and a Mac emulator running under Linux
• NaCade - The Naked Raspberry Pi Arcade Machine (instructables.com)
  A rather cute Raspberry Pi arcade machine - with all its bits on display!
• Raspberry Pi Web Kiosk (pricelessgeek.com)
  How to quickly and cheaply build a restricted web browser kiosk
• Raspberry Pi Trail Camera (afraidofsunlight.co.uk)
  Wildlife motion detection photography and videography
• Remotely Control Your Raspberry Pi (linuxuser.co.uk)
  Take control of your Raspberry Pi from your phone/tablet/PC from anywhere
• Installing ownCloud on Raspberry Pi (blog.adityapatawari.com)
  ownCloud enables users to share their data without giving control to any third party

Articles & more

• Pimoroni PiGlow: Rainbow LED Swirls (theregister.co.uk)
  A summary of Pimoroni's add-on, the PiGlow
• GeekWire Radio: A Slice of Raspberry Pi (geekwire.com)
  An interview and Q&A with Rob Bishop on his USA Tour
• Babbage Flight (daveakerman.com)
  Dave's own retrospective on Babbage's ascent and freefall
• Babbage Jump (youtube.com)
  The moment Babbage made his heroic descent - captured on video
• Pi Thronecam at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (raspberrypi.org)
  Watch a Shakespeare play from the throne in glorious 1080p HD

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