Issue #50 — Usage

Hi all

This, our fiftieth issue of Pi Weekly comes to you a few days late due to the general busy nature of Ben and Ryan.

This weekend Ben headed North for the Manchester Girl Geeks Barcamp, affectionately known as Bracamp. A very enjoyable event of talks, discussions and demos – Ben and Rachel put on a stand promoting Raspberry Pi.

This week the Raspberry Pi education team is running workshops at the Cheltenham Science Festival, from Thursday to Saturday.

Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

The calm before the storm – the Raspberry Pi stall at Maker Faire San Francisco

News

• Raspberry Pi Usage Guide (raspberrypi.org)
  Explore your Raspberry Pi with the newly completed online usage guide

Projects

• Dynamic NFC Tag (indiegogo.com)
  Two-way communication with your Raspberry Pi over NFC
• MouseAir (raspberrypi.org)
  Detect a cat and fire a furry toy mouse into the hallway
• Raspberry Pi Wireless Router (geeky-gadgets.com)
  How to transform a Pi into a wireless router
• Raspberry Pi Reading the News (youtube.com)
  A Pi reading the news with lynx browser and festival text-to-speech
• Party Buzzer (twilio.com)
  Making Your apartment buzzer party friendly with Raspberry Pi and Twilio
• The Watchmen (scott.j38.net)
  Interactive sculptures that generate sound based on environment changes

Articles & more

• Raspberry Pi is Changing (electronicsweekly.com)
  An interview with Eben Upton about the compute module and future of the Raspberry Pi
• UNICEF Pi Education Project (raspberrypi.org)
  Alex Eames on educating children with HDMIPi kits in Lebanon
• Raspberry Pi projects from Maker Faire Bay Area (raspberrypi.org)
  Alex Bradbury's round-up of Pi projects at Maker Faire San Francisco

Upcoming Events

• Preston Raspberry Jam (2 June)
• Raspberry Jam Helsinki (3 June)
• Manchester Raspberry Jam 20 (7 June)
• Exeter Raspberry Jam (7 June)
• Torbay Raspberry Pi / Arduino Jam (14 June)
• Falkirk Raspberry Jam (16 June)
• Southend Raspberry Jam (21 June)

Contact & Submissions

This newsletter is curated by @ben_nuttall. Tweet links to @rpf_weekly or email weekly [at] raspberrypi.org