Friday 22 July 2016

Issue #162 - Bees

Welcome to Friday.

Bees. Bees are our friends, and the team at the Hive Project are doing all they can to help our hard-working friends thrive with an electric beehive.

On top of this, the team at The MagPi have produced a brand new Essentials Guide, helping you make the most out of the world of Minecraft.

And if that’s not enough for you, we’ve also seen some great tutorials this week, so why not build your own printable Farmbots and watch the progress through a pair of digital binoculars, while checking the weather on a Weather Pi?

What a week! See you in seven days.

Peace,

Alex

News

New Minecraft MagPi Essentials
(raspberrypi.org) Download the latest Essentials book now
Raspberry Pi and the Fugee School
(freemalaysiatoday.com) Refugee children learn how to code with Raspberry Pi
University of Manchester Robot Orchestra
(robotorchestra.co.uk) Makers create music with Pi-powered robots
The Cosmic Ray Detector
(motherboard.vice.com) Detect cosmic rays on earth with a Pi
RasPiO GPIO Zero Ruler
(kickstarter.com) Quick reference for GPIO Zero coding at your fingertips

Projects

How to water-cool a Pi
(youtube.com) What's cooler than being cool? Ice cold!
RPi Weather Clock
(caternuson.github.io) The aesthetically pleasing RPi Weather Clock
Open-source Farmbot
(thetechieguy.com) Print your own farmer
Calculate True North
(codeproject.com) Where are you?

Articles

Useless Duck Company Pi Builds
(raspberrypi.org)
Useless builds to make you smile and/or cringe
Mozilla Streaming Vinyl
(raspberrypi.org)
Galactic funk at the Mozilla office
Raspberry Pi Rocket Man
(raspberrypi.org)
On-board Pi records high-altitude rocket flights
Internet of Voice Challenge
(raspberrypi.org)
Raspberry Pi + Amazon + Hackster.io = Prizes
The Fish-Eye
(raspberrypi.org)
See fish as you've never seen fish before
Oh Bee-have
(raspberrypi.org)
An electric hive aims to help save the bees