Mail from the folks at the MagPi, the free to download magazine for the Raspberry Pi community, written by the Raspberry Pi community.
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MagPi issue 18 – out now!
MagPi issue 18 – out now!
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arkOS : An Anti-Cloud Server Management Distribution For Raspberry Pi. – CrazyEngineers
Liliputing arkOS : An Anti-Cloud Server Management Distribution For Raspberry Pi . CrazyEngineers The initiative of CitizenWeb Project & Jacob Cook, arkOS is Arch-Linux based Anti-cloud server management custom Linux distribution, specially built for Raspberry Pi promoting decentralization and democratization of Internet
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arkOS : An Anti-Cloud Server Management Distribution For Raspberry Pi. – CrazyEngineers
OCR MOOC – new materials now available
A very short, but very important post today (I’d write more, but I have to hop on a plane). As you’ll know if you’re a regular reader, we’ve been supporting the exam board OCR in their production of Cambridge GCSE Computing , a Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) for kids and teachers – and everybody else – which is structured around their highly regarded Computing GCSE.
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OCR MOOC – new materials now available
Sonic Pi – a free music and computing resource for teachers, and for the rest of us
Carrie Anne Philbin, an absolutely inspirational CS teacher of the sort I wish had been around when I was a kid, has been doing a lot of work with the Pi in her lessons over the last year or so.
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Sonic Pi – a free music and computing resource for teachers, and for the rest of us
RaspyFi – a distro for music lovers
RaspyFi was brought to our attention a few days ago: it’s a distro designed especially for those with big media libraries who are using their Pis to listen to music. If you’re one of those people (I am, and I’m chuffed to bits to find RaspyFi), or an honest-to-god audiophile, you may have noticed that other media centre distros have been built to prioritise video rather than music, and don’t necessarily support all the formats your collection might be made up of; or give you the fine degree of control you want over volume and playback. And if you want to stream music wirelessly to other devices on your network, you’ll have to do a little more work with a traditional Raspberry Pi media centre (I can’t believe I’m saying “traditional” about a device that’s only been on the market for 18 months) to get everything working.
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RaspyFi – a distro for music lovers
Waterproofing your timelapse rig
You might remember the post we wrote about BerryCam , a way to operate your Pi’s camera board (available from any of our main distributors – check the “Buy a Pi” links at the top right of the page) from your mobile phone, from the other day. Jim, one of the BerryCam engineers, has also been playing with the camera board in another project: a waterproof timelapse rig in a coffee can . This is not, of course, the first timelapse setup we’ve showcased here: but it is probably the most robust and self-contained, and importantly, it’s waterproof, so you can use it outdoors in the sort of interesting weather that’s just begging to be filmed in timelapse.
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Waterproofing your timelapse rig
Bitcoin operated pool table
A couple of weeks back, Stuart Kerr from Liberty Games mailed me to let me know they were thinking about using a Pi to mod a coin-operated pool table to take bitcoins instead; he wanted to know about using our trademark. I mailed him a link to the trademarks rules, made a note about the pool table idea, and then got back to what I was doing – lots of people mail us to tell us they’re starting projects, but not everybody actually finishes the project they’re mailing us about.
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Bitcoin operated pool table
Afghanistan project: double your money update
I’ve spoken to the board of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, and I’m very pleased to be able to tell you that donations to the project we posted about yesterday, to bring computing labs to girls in Afghanistan, will be matched up to $10,000 by the Foundation. So there’s an extra incentive to donate – we’ll double your donation for you.
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Afghanistan project: double your money update
Help fund computing labs for girls in Afghanistan
Will Goldie is a Boy Scout in California, working on his Eagle project . It’s an ambitious one: working alongside Trust in Education , a group that organises educational, economic and business development programs in rural Afghanistan, he’s raising funds to equip a computer lab for a girls’ school. The Pi will form the centrepiece of what Will’s doing, and he has an Indiegogo running, starting today, to raise the money.
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Help fund computing labs for girls in Afghanistan