Time for an Astro Pi update! The ‘big idea’ phase of the competition, where students were only required to submit an idea, closed at the beginning of April. The fully anonymised judging process took place over two long days at York’s National STEM Centre on the 17th of April
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Astro Pi: Mission Update 2
Helen: We’re pleased to welcome back to the blog a regular guest, high-altitude balloonist Dave Akerman . You’ll have gathered that a noteworthy astronomical event is to take place across northern Europe on Friday, and as you’d expect, Dave has plans. We’ll let him tell you all about them.
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Observing a solar eclipse with high-altitude Pis
We quite frequently get asked about optimum operating temperatures for the Raspberry Pi – frequently enough that this was a very early addition to our FAQs page back in 2012: The Raspberry Pi is built from commercial chips which are qualified to different temperature ranges; the LAN9512 is specified by the manufacturers being qualified from 0°C to 70°C, while the AP is qualified from -40°C to 85°C. You may well find that the board will work outside those temperatures, but we’re not qualifying the board itself to these extremes. And we left it at that.
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Penguin Lifelines
Start-up Naturebytes hopes their 3D printed Raspberry Pi camera trap (a camera triggered by the presence of animals) will be the beginning of a very special community of makers. Supported by the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s Education Fund and Nesta , Naturebytes aims to establish a digital making community for wildlife with a very important purpose.
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A digital making community for wildlife: Naturebytes camera traps
Raspberry Pi Camera Captures Images As GIFs PSFK OTTO is the first commercial product to use the Raspberry Pi 's new compute mode, which contains the BCM2835 processor, 512Mbyte of RAM, and a 4Gbyte eMMC Flash device all featured in the original Raspberry Pi . These features have all been
The MagPi magazine is the single thing to have come out of the Raspberry Pi community that I’m proudest of, in a sort of godmotherly way – we at the Raspberry Pi Foundation do not have any association with The MagPi besides thinking it’s the best thing since sliced maltloaf. They’ve got a new Kickstarter running. The MagPi is a monthly free download, full of projects, tutorials, reviews and interviews about the Raspberry Pi.
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The MagPi – Kickstart the Volume 2 Binder for 432 pages of Pi goodness!
A big thank you to Recantha for spotting this one: PrivateEyePi is a project that went straight on my “I MUST make one of these” list when I saw it.
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PrivateEyePi – a DIY home alarm system
Element14 recently held a competition for the best picture taken with the Raspberry Pi camera board. As it happens, we’d already featured the picture that won on Facebook and Google+ : Dave Akerman, up to his usual very-high-jinks with more spacefaring balloons, managed to capture a pretty astonishing picture of Devon and Cornwall from the stratosphere. Today’s post is not about Dave’s picture, but here it is again for the historical record
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Mike-roscopy
Cristos Vasilas from from Dash One , a lover of astronomy and electronics, has been trying out the Raspberry Pi camera board as an astrophotography tool. He’s captured some amazingly sharp, short video of the moon, and of Saturn, rings clearly visible, swinging across the sky
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Astrophotography with the camera board
Raspberry Pi Heads For The Skies; Captures Stunning Images of Earth From A … CrazyEngineers Dave used the Model A of the Raspberry Pi computer along with its 5MP camera attachment (also capable of capturing 1080p videos) and attached it to a hydrogen balloon and a parachute.
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Raspberry Pi Heads For The Skies; Captures Stunning Images of Earth From A … – CrazyEngineers