Liz: The wildlife cam kit has landed. If you’re a regular reader you’ll know we’ve been following the Naturebytes team’s work with great interest; we think there’s massive potential for bringing nature to life for kids and for adults with a bit of smart computing.
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Naturebytes wildlife cam kit
If you missed the updates recently, we’re currently running a 12-month programme for creative young people called Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists . We have a Google+ community for the group to post ideas, share interesting links and ask each other for help and we hoped they would also use it to arrange to meet up outside of the organised field trips: within the first month, one of them found the Art Hackathon and suggested they go along and take part
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Emoti – Visualising our Emotions
In February Rachel Rayns, our Creative Producer, announced and opened entries for the new Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists mentorship programme. We selected final participants from the applicants at the beginning of this month – we’ve got a wonderful group of young people. Last weekend we held the induction weekend here at Pi Towers in Cambridge, which involved Pecha Kucha presentations (20 slides, 20 seconds per slide) from participants and mentors; introducing the CTs to their new Raspberry Pi starter kits; getting them up and running with their Pis with a Python and GPIO workshop using the CamJam EduKit and the camera module; and a punting trip through the heart of Cambridge.
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Meet the Raspberry Pi Creative Technologists
Ben: Last week while scouring the web for projects and articles for Pi Weekly , my Friday Raspberry Pi email round-up, I came across Rapanui , who were using a Raspberry Pi to provide a rather unique service: you tweet a picture to @tshirtplease and it automatically creates a product page for you and others to buy a t-shirt with that picture on it. I immediately contacted them for more information and Mart offered to write it up for us! My tshirt from @Rapanuiclothing of me talking about @tshirtplease at #IoT15 has arrived! Thank you @BorisAdryan !! pic.twitter.com/72MnmdaALo — andysc (@andysc) March 13, 2015 Over to Mart… Rapanui is a fashion brand that makes clothes from more sustainable materials in a wind powered factory
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Your Photo on a t-shirt from Rapanui
Helen: Over the past year and a half, Raspi-LTSP has become very popular as a simple and easy-to-set-up way of managing Raspberry Pi users and files in a classroom setting. Today its 18-year-old developer Andrew Mulholland launches PiNet , the new incarnation of this very valuable, free, open source project.
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Raspi-LTSP is now PiNet: easily manage a Raspberry Pi classroom
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen a Raspberry Pi used to add useful or entertaining features to a doorbell, but it’s probably the most feature-rich doorbell hack we’ve come across.
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Raspberry Pi Internet doorbell
Yesterday we received some figures which confirmed something we’ve suspected for a few weeks now: we’ve sold over five million Raspberry Pis. The Pi has gone from absolutely nothing just under three years ago, to becoming the fastest-selling British computer.
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Five million sold!
At a Princeton hackathon a while back, Bonnie Eisenman did something rather wonderful to a flight of stairs using a Raspberry Pi, some lights, an Arduino and a handful of photoresistors. Bonnie, I can’t believe you only won second prize. This is amazing.
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Piano stairs
Liz: We’ve got a number of good friends at Argon Design , a tech consultancy in Cambridge. (James Adams, our Director of Hardware, used to work there; as did my friend from the time of Noah, @eyebrowsofpower ; the disgustingly clever Peter de Rivaz, who wrote Penguins Puzzle , is an Argon employee; and Steve Barlow, who heads Argon up, used to run AlphaMosaic, which became Broadcom’s Cambridge arm, and employed several of the people who work at Pi Towers back in the day.) We gave the Argon team a Compute Module to play with this summer, and they set David Barker, one of their interns, to work with it. Here’s what he came up with: thanks David, and thanks Argon! This summer I spent 11 weeks interning at a local tech company called Argon Design, working with the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module
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Real-time depth perception with the Compute Module
Carrie Anne Philbin, our Education Pioneer and author of the most excellent Adventures in Raspberry Pi , had a dark secret up until last week. She was a Raspberry Pi enthusiast who didn’t know how to solder
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Learn to solder with Carrie Anne