Friday 5 February 2016

Issue #138 - Ed

This week the first of the two Astro Pi units aboard the International Space Station was powered up by Tim Peake. An animation has been released by the Foundation to mark the occasion, telling the story of the two Pis that were selected for the mission, named Ed and Izzie. Also, a set of coding challenges has been announced – another chance for UK students to get their code in space.

See you next week!

Ben

News

Astro Pi Mission Update 8
(raspberrypi.org) A new tiny motor controller for Pi Zero from 4tronix
Astro Pi Coding Challenges
(astro-pi.org) A new opportunity to have your code run in space by Tim Peake
4tronix PZM Pi Zero Motor Shim
(4tronix.co.uk) The first Astro Pi has been booted by Tim Peake aboard the ISS

Projects

rpi-led-control
(npmjs.com) Control 7 segment LED displays and matrices with JavaScript
Add a low-profile WiFi board to Pi Zero
(n-o-d-e.net) How to attach a low-profile WiFi board to the Raspberry Pi Zero
Cluster computing with Ansible and Raspberry Pi
(opensource.com) Getting started with Ansible using a cluster of six Raspberry Pi 2s
Brewing Beer with a Raspberry Pi
(dzone.com) Making cooling rate calculations testable
Polaroid baby monitor
(instructables.com) Build your own baby monitor with a Pi, webcam and WiFi dongle
r0ck candy Pirate Radio
(hackaday.io) A social, portable pirate radio station stuffed in a candy container
dashboard-viewer
(github.com) Kiosk browser running on resin.io for displaying dashboards
Raspberry Pi Twitterbot
(trevorappleton.blogspot.co.uk) Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Twitterbot
Hot Tub Controller
(raspberrypihobbyist.blogspot.co.uk) A neat hot tub controller with a smartphone app controller

Articles

Do more with your #PiZero in The MagPi 42
(raspberrypi.org)
The MagPi #42 is here, featuring Pi Zero projects and more
Hiatus
(raspberrypi.org)
An update on the Foundation office move
'Astro Pi' and Tim Peake run UK kids' code in space
(wired.co.uk)
Raspberry Pi is now 250 vertical miles into orbit with Tim Peake
Dr Who theme on a Pi Zero
(raspberrypi.org)
Sci-fi sound synthesis on a Pi Zero
Submersible Raspberry Pi drone
(raspberrypi.org)
Take your Pi below the surface
Angry Comcast customer auto-tweets speed test results
(arstechnica.com)
Raspberry Pi does hourly speed tests, tweets if speed is lower than advertised
Switch on to the delights of coding at UCS
(ipswichstar.co.uk)
Ipswich Raspberry jam event to encourage coding and programming

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