Friday 19 February 2016

Issue #140 - Izzy

Hi everyone

You’ll notice today’s issue has a new look: this comes with the news that Pi Weekly has become the official Raspberry Pi newsletter and has been moved to a new home at raspberrypi.org/weekly. All the old issues are archived there, and the newsletter will continue to go out every week in the usual way. There’ll be more info on the blog later today.

This week astronaut Tim Peake booted up the second Astro Pi on the International Space Station; this one is named Izzy, and you can follow her on Twitter @astro_pi_ir.

Ben

News

Astro Pi: New chance to send your code into space!
(raspberrypi.org) More opportunities for kids to put code in space
Second Astro Pi Deployment
(astro-pi.org) The second Astro Pi unit is alive
Chromium OS for Raspberry Pi 2
(news.softpedia.com) Mature and stable Chromium OS for the Pi 2
PiGRRL Pack 2.0
(adafruit.com) Build your own Pi game emulator

Projects

Building a Raspberry Pi Baby Monitor
(stuffbabiesneed.com) Build a baby monitor with a Pi and USB webcam
Getting started with the Pimoroni ESP8266 IOT pHAT
(richardhayler.blogspot.co.uk) Quick start guide to the ESP8266 WiFi pHAT
Radio Stream Recorder
(hackaday.io) Record internet radio streams with your Pi
Set up a Raspberry Pi FTP Server
(tutorials-raspberrypi.com) Guide to setting your Pi up as an FTP server
Voice-Controlled Drone with Amazon Echo
(hackster.io) Build a drone with Amazon Echo and 3DR IRIS+
Use a Raspberry Pi to monitor your home
(techradar.com) Learn how to keep an eye on things at home

Articles

Raspberry Pi Projects for Dummies
(raspberrypi.org)
Do more with your Raspberry Pi with Raspberry Pi Projects for Dummies
A Raspberry Pi-controlled book scanner
(raspberrypi.org)
Pi 2 and touch display powered book scanner
Three great GameMaker games for Raspberry Pi
(raspberrypi.org)
Raspberry Pi games from GameMaker Studio
Raspberry Pi: what is it and why do I need one?
(liquidlight.co.uk)
A good round-up for newcomers to the world of Pi
A Quadcopter Controlled By A Pi Zero
(hackaday.com)
A Pi Zero-powered quadcopter
Raspberry Pi Zero review
(itpro.co.uk)
IT pro review the new £4 mini PC
Wi-Fi banana all grown up
(theregister.co.uk)
The recently featured banana WiFi code project has gone enterprise
DIY baseboard for RPi Compute Module
(linuxgizmos.com)
Online dev tool Gumstix have created a compute module base board
Cluster Hat for Raspberry Pi Zeros
(youtube.com)
A HAT for adding four Pi Zeros to your Pi 2
42 of the Most Useful Raspberry Pi Commands
(circuitbasics.com)
A list of some of the most common terminal commands used on the Pi