Issue #90 — Three

Hi all

Last weekend was the big Raspberry Pi Birthday Weekend in Cambridge, where the Foundation announced a new case they’ve been working on. 1000 units were given away at the birthday event and they will go on sale from the usual distributors and third parties within the next month.

Matt Timmons-Brown’s Three Years of Pi video has been released, featuring projects and other ongoings from the past year.

Ben

Picture of the week

The Raspberry Pi 3rd Birthday Weekend at the Cambridge Computer Lab

News

• Happy birthday to us! (raspberrypi.org)
  It’s the Raspberry Pi’s third birthday
• Big Birthday Bash – the aftermath (raspberrypi.org)
  Pictures from the birthday weekend
• Docker Pi Image (blog.hypriot.com)
  An SD card image for the Docker container platform
• Piper (kickstarter.com)
  A Minecraft Toolbox for Budding Engineers - on Kickstarter
• PiJuice Adds Power To Your Pi Projects (techcrunch.com)
  Adding a battery pack, RTC and on/off switch to your Pi in HAT form

Projects

• Duelling pianos (raspberrypi.org)
  Using pianos to play Street Fighter
• Pedalumi (raspberrypi.org)
  A light organ built into a guitar pedalboard
• Eben Upton: The Raspberry Pi Pioneer (spectrum.ieee.org)
  IEEE speak to Eben about the Raspberry Pi revolution
• Minecraft Star Wars (stuffaboutcode.com)
  Animation of the Death Star destroying Alderaan - in Minecraft Pi
• Let’s add a dirt cheap screen to the Raspberry Pi (blog.reasonablycorrect.com)
  Getting a DPI signal out of the GPIO allows you to use cheap screens with A+/B+ or Pi 2
• BMO GameBoy (3dprint.com)
  Raspberry Pi & Adventure Time come together in BMO games console
• Raspberry Pi GSM Hat (hackaday.com)
  HAT to connect a SIM card to a Raspberry Pi

Articles & more

• Launch day – what happened to the website? (raspberrypi.org)
  Guest post from Mythic Beasts on coping with Pi 2 launch traffic
• Three years of Pi! (youtube.com)
  New video from The Raspberry Pi Guy
• Picademy – Why Apply? (teachprimarycomputing.wordpress.com)
  Notes on applying for Raspberry Pi's free teacher training from Cat Lamin
• Raspberry Pi Birthday Party Weekend (raspi.tv)
  Coverage of the party weekend from Alex Eames
• March Is For Makers - Raspberry Pi 101 (youtube.com)
  Video tutorial covering the Raspberry Pi
• Party Celebrates 3 Years of Raspberry Pi (makezine.com)
  Make covers the Pi birthday weekend in words and pictures
• Raspberry Pi Farset Labs Jams (m.bbc.co.uk)
  Northern Ireland's Farset Labs Jams teach kids how to code computers
• Ubuntu IoT Demos (htxt.co.za)
  Ubuntu demos its control panel for the internet of things at MWC
• The Pi you didn't know you wanted (pcpro.co.uk)
  Raspberry Pi 2 review from PCPro
• A Candy from computer geeks (thehindu.com)
  Indian CS students create their own spin of Raspberry Pi operating systems

Upcoming Events

• Mohawk College Library Raspberry Jam (CA) (6 March)
• Pi Day Hackathon, Brooklyn (US) (14 March)
• Raspberry Pi Day Almeria Jam (ES) (14 March)
• Manchester Raspberry Jam (UK) (14 March)
• Barnstaple Raspberry Jam (UK) (14 March)
• Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam (UK) (14 March)
• MORE Raspberry Pi Jam, Missouri (US) (14 March)
• Raspberry Pi Bake-Off, Arkansas (US) (14 March)
• A Very Raspberry Pi Day Jam, Missouri (US) (14 March)
• Nanaimo Pi Day Jam (CA) (14 March)
• Pi day Morocco (MA) (15 March)
• Rhône Valley Raspberry Jam (FR) (22 March)
• RaspberryPi Jam PEI (CA) (28 March)

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