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Saturday 12 May 2018

Issue #254 - Tricorder

Brian Mix's Pi tricorder

Hello everyone,

This week, issue 5 of Hello World is out, and Astro Pi Mission Space Lab data is in! Check out the Astro Pi Twitter feed for wonderful images of Earth from space, captured by code written by students and run on Raspberry Pis on the International Space Station.

We also discovered Brian Mix’s beautiful tricorder, and saw the Raspberry Pi community in action in lots of different ways.

At the Red Hat Summit in Boston, Massachusetts, girls from Red Hat’s CO.LAB spoke and ran workshops about using Raspberry Pis and camera modules for a poetry project, and twelve-year-old Jam organiser Femi Owolade-Coombes gave a keynote. Raspberry Pi’s Ben, Richard and Mark took the CoderDojo experience to AWS Summit in London. And we rounded out the week on the raspberrypi.org blog with Mayank Sinha’s working prototype home security system, dedicated to the Raspberry Pi community for all their help with the project.

Until next week,

Helen

News

  • Mission Space Lab data is in!

    (twitter.com) Students are processing their results, and the winners will take part in a webinar with ESA astronaut Tim Peake
  • Hello World Issue 5: Engineering

    (raspberrypi.org) Celebrating the Year of Engineering, inclusive computing teaching, tech-themed trips, and more
  • Could you work for us?

    (raspberrypi.workable.com) Join our team in Cambridge, UK or Dublin, Ireland

Projects

  • This is a really lovely Raspberry Pi tricorder

    (raspberrypi.org) Beautiful
  • Setting up Raspberry Pi OctoPrint

    (pimylifeup.com) Step-by-step walkthrough from PiMyLifeup
  • Mayank Sinha’s home security project

    (raspberrypi.org) A fully functional work-in-progress, with thanks to the Raspberry Pi community for their support
  • Augmented-reality projection lamp with Raspberry Pi and Android Things

    (raspberrypi.org) Minority Report, here we come!
  • Watering Pi

    (imgur.com) Waters your plant, sends you push notifications
  • LED clock

    (mathieupassenaud.fr) Three circles of LEDs for hours, minutes, and seconds
  • Offline Object Detection and Tracking on a Raspberry Pi

    (medium.com) Using the YOLO (You Only Look Once) model
  • Web-Based Expandable Irrigation Controller

    (hackster.io) Water your whole garden with up to 64 stations
  • Weather Interlock for Home Heating

    (hackster.io) Heat your home based on local outside air temperature
  • Pimp your cage with Raspberry Pi

    (hackernoon.com) Neat projects for feeding and keeping track of your fuzzy friends
  • Raspberry Pi SD card muzzle

    (thingiverse.com) Got an older Pi with a broken click-in, click-out SD card holder? This will help

Articles

  • Coolest Projects: Empowering girls to be tech creators

    (coderdojo.com)
    Celebrating the girls of Coolest Projects. Don't forget your tickets for 26 May!
  • SUSE Linux for Raspberry Pi: Enterprise Server for ARM released

    (raspberrypi.org)
    The super-robust server OS comes to Raspberry Pi
  • Whimsical builds and messing things up

    (raspberrypi.org)
    How to make a pencil crossbow, and how it's OK when you fail
  • Why you should make useless things

    (ted.com)
    Simone Giertz's TED talk: "Maybe a toothbrush helmet isn't the answer, but at least you're asking the question."
  • More Brits plan their own smart home devices using the Raspberry Pi

    (dpaonthenet.net)
    48% of survey respondents plan to use the Pi in their home
  • Raspberry Pi meets AI

    (zdnet.com)
    Roundup of projects that put machine learning on our $35 board

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