Issue #75 — Wales

Hi all

This week’s issue comes to you from Pencoed, Wales, where the Raspberry Pi Education team has been delivering its free teacher training course Picademy to Welsh teachers at the Sony factory where Pis are manufactured.

Ben

Picture of the week

Varieties of the Raspberry Pi rounded up by Alex Eames

News

• MagPi Issue 28 (raspberrypi.org)
  OpenCV, the Arduberry board, BitScope, VoIP, git, Fuze and more
• BerryIMU (kickstarter.com)
  Kickstarter for an orientation sensor for the Raspberry Pi
• PiPiano (indiegogo.com)
  Musical hardware add-on board from young hacker Zach Igielman
• Compute Module Tablet (kickstarter.com)
  Kickstarter for a Pi-based tablet
• New 5" Touch Display from Adafruit (adafruit.com)
  New HDMI 5" 800×480 Display Backpack for Pi with touchscreen

Projects

• Animated GIF Photo Frame (lifehacker.com.au)
  Make an animated GIF photo frame with a Raspberry Pi
• Raspberry Pi Trail Cam (nestboxtech.blogspot.co.uk)
  Make your own wildlife camera with a Pi and camera module
• Cycle Chaser (makezine.com)
  Speed-dependent frame rate animation projection from the rear of your bicycle
• Motivational Bathroom Scales (instructables.com)
  Bathroom scales that praise or diss based on your target vs. actual weight
• 12 Steps to Install OwnCloud (youtube.com)
  12 simple steps to setup and configure OwnCloud on your Pi

Articles & more

• A Collection of Pis (raspberrypi.org)
  Alex Eames rounds up all the variants of the Raspberry Pi
• Northern Ireland Raspberry Jams (raspberrypi.org)
  Andrew Mulholland set up some Raspberry Pi events in Northern Ireland
• Jacquard Loom Simulator (raspberrypi.org)
  Programmable loom simulator powered by Pi
• LoneStar introduced Raspberry Pi computers to its shop floor (computerweekly.com)
  Interview with LoneStar Group's business systems director on introducing Pis
• 6 best uses for your Raspberry Pi (pcpro.co.uk)
  Easy projects for your new microcomputer, including media center, wireless hi-fi
• What it's like to have Parkinson's for 15 minutes (newscientist.com)
  Research into Parkinsons disease with the Raspberry Pi

Upcoming Events

• Raspberry Jam Berlin (DE) (22 November)
• Birmingham Raspberry Jam (UK) (22 November)
• Southend Raspberry Jam (UK) (22 November)
• Cotswold Raspberry Jam (UK) (22 November)
• Hull Raspberry Jam (UK) (22 November)
• Barcelona Raspberry Jam (ES) (23 November)
• North Staffordshire Raspberry Jam (UK) (24 November)
• Warwick Raspberry Jam (UK) (24 November)
• Eccles Raspberry Jam (UK) (29 November)
• London Raspberry Jam (UK) (29 November)
• Covent Garden Raspberry Jam (UK) (29 November)
• Central Florida Raspberry Jam (US) (29 November)
• Melbourne Raspberry Jam (AU) (30 November)
• Manchester Raspberry Jam (UK) (6 December)
• (CamJam) Pi Wars (UK) (6 December)
• Lagos Raspberry Jam (NG) (11 December)
• Huddersfield Raspberry Jam (UK) (13 December)
• Northern Ireland Raspberry Jam (UK) (13 December)
• Manchester Girl Geek Tea Party: Mince Pi (UK) (14 December)

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