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Raspberry Pi Weekly
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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

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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

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