Issue #73 — Tuatara

Hi everyone

This week I attended the Open Data Institute Summit in London with Amy Mather who was interviewed by Baroness Martha Lane Fox about her thoughts on computing education and her experience as a young girl interested in programming and making. We also got the chance to meet inventor of the world wide web Sir Tim Berners-Lee. See Amy’s talk.

Ben

Picture of the week

A hatching Tuatara captured in a Raspberry Pi time-lapse by Warren Butcher

News

• iBox Nano (kickstarter.com)
  The world's smallest, least expensive 3D printer
• GPIO Xmas Tree Kit (kickstarter.com)
  A fun, festive GPIO add-on kit for your Raspberry Pi
• Sonic Pi Dreams (raspberrypi.org)
  Music video from Meta-eX featuring music composed entirely on Raspberry Pi
• eNcade (kickstarter.com)
  A Portable Raspberry Pi Gaming Console

Projects

• Watching an Endangered Tuatara Hatch (raspberrypi.org)
  Pi time-lapse of an endangered New Zealandic lizard hatching
• Hack Superman Launch Day (rs-online.com)
  Sending Superman in to space
• Rendering Camera Images in Minecraft (raspberrypi.org)
  Using Python Picamera and Minecraft Pi to render photographic images in real time
• Dinosaur Retrofit (raspberrypi.org)
  Animatronic dinosaurs with Node Red on Pi
• Meteotux Pi (adafruit.com)
  Record high resolution images of light sources in the night sky
• 3D Print and Wire Your Own Functioning Mini-Arcade (3dprint.com)
  Make a cute but fully functional games arcade the size of a coke can

Articles & more

• Raspberry Pi on a Diet (learn.adafruit.com)
  Slim down your Model B+ with a few modifications
• South African Raspberry Pi Computer Lab (raspberrypi.org)
  The Solar Powered Learning project up and running following Kickstarter success
• Creating music in classrooms using code (phys.org)
  Early research into new education practices that fuse computing with music-making
• Renewable Energy Coffee (science20.com)
  Coffee that only brews when the energy is renewable

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