Issue #94 — Voyager

Hi everyone

This week the Foundation announced they’re hiring a Head of Curriculum – read all about the role at raspberrypi.org.

This year’s April Fool prank involved the claim that they’d accidentally sent a Pi into space that was sending pictures back as it passed the planets on its way through the solar system – using images actually taken from the intro to Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Have a great Easter weekend!

Ben

Picture of the week

This picture supposedly taken by the first Pi in space – an April Fools prank by James Robinson at the Foundation

News

• Head of Curriculum Development Job at Raspberry Pi (raspberrypi.org)
  The Foundation are hiring a Head of Curriculum to join the education team
• The MagPi Issue 32 (raspberrypi.org)
  Crowdfunding, IoT door lock, Naturebytes, Sonic Pi and more

Projects

• Spotibear (3ders.org)
  A 3D printed toy bear that plays Spotify music using a Raspberry Pi
• Amateur Radio VOIP (instructables.com)
  Build an amateur radio transceiver with Raspberry Pi and Echolink software
• Internet-Controlled Car Horn (makezine.com)
  An April Fools prank: annoy your friends with an internet enabled car horn

Articles & more

• Your Photo on a t-shirt from Rapanui (raspberrypi.org)
  Tweet a photo to @tshirtplease and get a t-shirt with that picture on it
• The Young Innovators’ Club in Ulaanbaatar (raspberrypi.org)
  Pi-based engineering and tech education for school students in Mongolia
• Get your hands on a Raspberry Pi with new coding club (bromsgroveadvertiser.co.uk)
  Coding workshops and Raspberry Jams in Bromsgrove
• Truro students in Raspbery Pi national coding competition (westbriton.co.uk)
  Pupils from Truro and Penwith College win at PA Consulting competition

Upcoming Events

• Raspberry Pi User Group Karachi (PK) (4 April)
• Rasp4Dev (CM) (4 April)
• Preston Raspberry Jam (UK) (6 April)
• Raspberry Jam Barcelona 2015 (ES) (11 April)
• Torbay Tech Jam (UK) (11 April)
• Potton Pi & Pints (UK) (11 April)
• Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam (UK) (11 April)
• Roanoke Raspberry Jam, Virginia (US) (11 April)
• A slice of Pi, Worcestershire (UK) (14 April)
• Cotswold Raspberry Jam (UK) (18 April)
• Mansfield Raspberry Jam (UK) (18 April)
• Seattle Raspberry Jam (US) (15 April)
• Raspberry Jam Silicon Valley (US) (18 April)
• North Staffordshire Raspberry Jam (UK) (25 April)

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Contact & Submissions

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