Issue #95 — Tyler
Friday 10 April 2015
Hi everyone
Hope you all had a nice Easter weekend.
Hackaday member Tyler Spadgenske created his own smartphone with a Model A+ and posted the instructions to build your own for just $180! Check it out on hackaday.io
Ben
Picture of the week
![typhone](http://piweekly.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/typhone-564x423.jpg)
The Typhone – an A+ powered DIY smartphone you can build for $180
News
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ARDHAT (kickstarter.com)
Arduino compatibility in Raspberry Pi HAT form -
UART HAT (kickstarter.com)
UART HAT provides two additional serial ports with flow control
Projects
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TyPhone (hackaday.io)
Build your own smartphone for $180 with an A+ -
Accessing the Raspberry Pi Camera with OpenCV and Python (pyimagesearch.com)
Computer vision tutorial using Python picamera and OpenCV -
How to run Ubuntu Snappy Core on Pi 2 (xmodulo.com)
Exploring Ubuntu's snappy core image available for Raspberry Pi 2 -
Heart Rate Sensor (blog.initialstate.com)
Monitor your heart rate with Python -
Tin Man's Heart (raspberrypi.org)
Spencer Organ's tin man's heart for a Wizard of Oz production -
DIY home alert system (raspberrypi.org)
Home-made home security system with smartphone alerting -
Raspberry Pi 2 Speech Recognition (wolfpaulus.com)
Speech recognition on Pi with PocketSphinx and a USB microphone
Articles & more
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Students compete for a chance to have their code run in space (opensource.com)
Coverage of the Astro Pi space mission -
Cosmic-ray project attracts IOP prize (iop.org)
Special relativity physics experiment with Raspberry Pi -
Growing this in the mushroom cloud (raspberrypi.org)
Monitoring mushroom growing conditions with a Pi and sensors -
Use your Raspberry Pi to fight crime (youtube.com)
Fight crime with Andy Proctor from iDataTruck -
Lego Spectrometers (raspberrypi.org)
Chemistry students at Imperial use Python on Pi with Lego to build spectrometers
Upcoming Events
- Reston Raspberry Pi Workshop (US) (11 April)
- Raspberry Pi Camera Workshop, Taipei (Taiwan) (12 April)
- Covent Garden Raspberry Jam (UK) (25 April)
Contact & Submissions
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