Issue #22 — Woz

Hey there

Both of us have been very busy this week: Ben has been preparing for Manchester Raspberry Jam XVI (which will be his last); and Ryan has just released his first Raspberry Pi Product!

Tomorrow’s event will see Madlab Jam packed (sorry) with 80 attendees – with a further 20 on the waitlist hoping someone drops out! Ben will finally get to meet Eben (moustache and all) – who will be travelling up North with Liz and Clive, and many more special guests will be in attendance – including Dave Akerman, Andrew Robinson, Pete Lomas and Paul Beech. What a way to spend your birthday!

Also, somewhat significantly, Ben and Ryan will meet for the first time! (almost 6 months in to working on Pi Weekly together)

This week we saw Steve Wozniak on BBC Click talking about the Raspberry Pi – and he had great things to say about it!

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Ben & Ryan

Picture of the week

“From a very young age on. You don’t need the high-level math of calculus or the stuff you get at university level. Any young child, even ten years old, can understand enough to learn to program, and the Raspberry Pi – you can hook wires to little motors, you can build devices that do things. What an incredible learning experience.”

~ Steve Wozniak, BBC Click

News

• Linux Voice (indiegogo.com)
  Ex- Linux Format editors launch crowdfunded project for a new magazine
• Ryanteck Raspberry Pi Motor Controller Board Kit (tindie.com)
  Ryan releases his first Raspberry Pi product - a motor driver
• The Lotter Brothers Reach Cairo (raspberrypi.org)
  ARM engineers Frederik and Ernest on a Raspberry Pi road trip across Africa
• Docker on Raspberry Pi (resin.io)
  Docker helps deploy applications with the entirety of their dependencies
• Raspberry Pi Commended for 'inspiring social change' (telegraph.co.uk)
  Pi recognised for “opening up basic programming to new generations"
• Scratch Programming in Easy Steps (sean.co.uk)
  Author of 'Raspberry Pi for Dummies' releases Scratch programming book
• HDMIPI Stretch Goals (kickstarter.com)
  Alex announces possibility of power supplies and case colour variety

Projects

• Raspberry PI 3D Scanner (instructables.com)
  40 Raspberry Pis + cameras used to create a 3D Scanner
• Pi Portable (plus.google.com)
  A Google+ photo album of a portable Raspberry Pi project by Geraint White
• XBMC PiGlow Addon (falldeaf.com)
  An add-on for XBMC that uses the PiGlow to display media information
• Gesture Detecting Air Guitar Glove (raspberrypi.org)
  Team Hackcouture.io take wearable computing to a new level
• Broadcasting Local Radio to the Internet (raspberrypi.org)
  Artica using Pis and Arduinos to put FM radio online

Articles & more

• Steve Wozniak on the Raspberry Pi (raspberrypi.org)
  Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak calls the Pi "an incredible learning experience"
• Teaching Cassandra Cluster Setups with the Raspberry Pi (linux.com)
  Using Pis to run Cassandra over multiple machines without building datacenters
• Why Port Docker to the Raspberry Pi? (resin.io)
  Resin.io explain why they bothered porting Docker for the Pi
• Pi Weekly – MVP, Evolution and My Dream Job (bennuttall.com)
  Ben tells the story of the launch and evolution of Pi Weekly
• Node.js on Raspberry Pi (nodewiz.biz)
  How to install node, the server-side JavaScript platform, on a Raspberry Pi
• One of 100 Best Technologies for Social Good (wired.co.uk)
  Nominet Trust 100 aims to identify and highlight technologies for social good

Upcoming Events

• Manchester Girl Geeks Kano Raspberry Pi Workshop (24 November)
• Cambridge Raspberry Jam (7 December)
• Raspberry Jamboree 2014 (27 February - 2 March)

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