Issue #95 — Tyler

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

The Typhone – an A+ powered DIY smartphone you can build for $180

News

• 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

• 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

• 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)

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