Issue #102 — Wheelchair

Hi everyone

This week I’m in Liverpool helping Rachel set up a robotic garden exhibit at FACT. More info on that soon!

The Astro Pi hardware has been going through exhaustive testing to check it’s safe for space flight this week – going well so far – looking forward to hearing more from Dave on that. Some educational resources have been produced for the Astro Pi, along with other examples and demos from the community.

Ben

Picture of the week

German teen hackers create Pi 2 powered eye movement controller wheelchair

News

• Astro Pi Mission Update 3 (raspberrypi.org)
  New resources, demos and examples of the Astro Pi / Sense HAT
• Astro Pi Guide (raspberrypi.org)
  A new guide for using the Astro Pi sensor board
• Getting Started with Astro Pi (raspberrypi.org)
  Another new learning resource for getting started with Astro Pi
• PoE Switch HAT (kickstarter.com)
  Power-over-Ethernet add-on for the Raspberry Pi
• Lucid Labs Raspberry Pi DAC (kickstarter.com)
  Add a high resolution music player to your Raspberry Pi

Projects

• Samplerbox (raspberrypi.org)
  Polyphonic musical goodness from a Pi and MIDI keyboard
• Eye-Controlled Wheelchair (hackaday.com)
  German teen hackers create Pi 2 powered eye movement controller wheelchair
• Basic motion detection and tracking (pyimagesearch.com)
  Using Python and OpenCV on a Pi to detect motion and track objects

Articles & more

• Emoti – Visualising our Emotions (raspberrypi.org)
  Project from Creative Technologists at the Art Hackathon
• Using Raspberry Pi to get teens involved in open source (opensource.com)
  STEM event for teens in North Carolina
• Great tech innovators: Eben Upton (techradar.com)
  Some background on Pi Founder Eben Upton
• An idiot's guide to installing Raspbian on a Mac (teachprimarycomputing.wordpress.com)
  Cat Lamin shows how to install a Raspbian SD card from a Mac
• Raspberry Pi 2 (heraldscotland.com)
  Review of the Pi 2 from the Herald Scotland

Contact & Submissions

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