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Raspberry Pi Weekly
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Friday 15 April 2016

Issue #148 - Scales

Hi all,

In a first for Raspberry Pi Weekly, this issue comes from someone other than Ben, who is away on a UK camping holiday. We wish him all the luck in the world.

This week, we announced the winners of our 2016 Astro Pi Coding Challenges. British ESA astronaut Tim Peake will use their MP3 player code and listen to their Sonic Pi tunes on the International Space Station!

We’ve announced new dates for Picademy@Google in Newcastle and London in the UK; there’s also an update on Pi Zero from our forums.

Helen

  • Astro Pi: Coding Challenges results!

    (raspberrypi.org) Astro Pi coding challenge winners announced
  • Picademy: new dates announced

    (raspberrypi.org) Picademy goes to London and Newcastle
  • GPIO Zero v1.2 released

    (gpiozero.readthedocs.org) GPIO Zero adds Energenie, LineSensor, DistanceSensor, SnowPi, ADCs and more
  • Pi Zero update

    (raspberrypi.org) Pi Zero production restarted, new surprise feature added
  • IoT HAT for Raspberry Pi

    (kickstarter.com) Pi Zero form factor add-on gives you WiFi and Bluetooth
  • "7 years" in Sonic Pi

    (primaryicttech.wordpress.com) Sonic Pi tutorial from Katharine Childs
  • Raspberry Pi terrarium controller

    (carnivorousplants.co.uk) Create a stable environment for your tropical plants or pet reptiles
  • Hackable, weight-tracking, text-messaging scale

    (github.com) Hackable IoT weighing scales
  • Monitor PiCam and temperature on a PiTFT

    (learn.adafruit.com) Dashboard to monitor one Pi's camera and temp sensor from another
  • PiPark

    (humpheh.github.io) Raspberry Pi car sensor to detect vacant parking spaces
  • Vision Zero for NYC potholes

    (silive.com)
    Street Quality Identification Device (SQUID) collects bumpiness data and pothole photos
  • Aquaponics

    (raspberrypi.org)
    Using waste from raising fish to feed your fruit and veg
  • The little computer that did

    (blog.mythic-beasts.com)
    A more detailed look at hosting the Raspberry Pi website on a cluster of Pi 3s
  • Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire

    (raspberrypi.org)
    All kinds of Pi projects at the finale to the Edinburgh International Science Festival
  • Heating furnace monitoring and control with RasPiO Duino & Raspberry Pi

    (raspi.tv)
    Alex Eames gives the RasPi.TV Polska HQ a heating system makeover
  • Meow Wolf builds fantastical immersive art

    (makezine.com)
    Extraordinary walkaround exhibit, "House of Eternal Return," uses Pis for interactivity

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