Issue #45 — Telephone

Hi all

This week we saw an implementation of Google Glass and a functional touch screen smart phone – both built with a Raspberry Pi!

Also, Gordon Hollingworth revealed something he’s been working on recently – looking at the motion vectors in video taken by the camera board to produce animated GIFs of the captured movement (with an example clip of Ben juggling!)

We’ve been too busy the last few weeks to curate lists of Jam dates – but they’re included today (and there are plenty!) – please email us with your dates.

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

Dave Hunt’s PiPhone – with a Raspberry Pi, Adafruit TFT and a GSM/GPRS module

News

• Free Goodies from Pimoroni (raspberrypi.org)
  Pimoroni are giving spacial cases away to celebrate the 100,000th Pibow case
• Vectors From Coarse Motion Estimation (raspberrypi.org)
  Gordon looks at vectors from camera board video to produce GIFs of motion

Projects

• PiPhone (davidhunt.ie)
  Dave Hunt built a Pi powered smartphone
• Raspberry Eye (hackaday.io)
  A Pi powered Google Glass -like project
• Is The Toilet Free? (madebymany.com)
  Using a Pi to detect toilet cubicle availability
• Cassette Case (sites.google.com)
  Building a Pi case out of a cassette tape
• My Fish Just Sent Me A Text Message (readwrite.com)
  Using Twilio to add texting to your home automation project
• Nintendo Style Case (adafruit.com)
  3D printed Nintendo style Raspberry Pi case

Articles & more

• Picademy (excitededucator.com)
  A write-up of Picademy from "excited educator" Lenny Dutton
• Getting Physical at Pi Towers (clairelotriet.com)
  Coverage of Picademy from Claire Lotriet
• RTK Motor Board Assembly (smstextblog.blogspot.co.uk)
  Paul Brown on assembling Ryan's motor board
• Fish Dish Assembly (averagemanvsraspberrypi.com)
  How to assemble the PiHut's Fish Dish add-on board
• Graphing Data with Gnuplot (raspberrypi-spy.co.uk)
  How to use gnuplot to graph data on the Raspberry Pi
• Using a Joystick (raspberrypi-spy.co.uk)
  Using a Joystick on the Raspberry Pi using an MCP3008

Upcoming Events

• Raspberry Pi & Arduino Nights (Bay Area) (30 April)
• iRaspberryPi (Banglore) (3 May)
• Preston Raspberry Jam (5 May)
• Cambridge Raspberry Jam (10 May)
• North Staffordshire Raspberry Jam (12 May)
• Oxford Raspberry Jam (15 May)
• Raspberry Jam Silicon Valley (17 May)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (Adults) (21 May)
• Malvern Raspberry Jam (Students) (21 May)
• Raspberry Jam Helsinki (3 June)
• Falkirk Raspberry Jam (16 June)

Contact & Submissions

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