UK-based Lucem Custom Instruments has teamed up with Seattle’s Tracktion Corporation to create an electric guitar with a built-in Raspberry Pi synthesiser, which they call Spirit Animal. The Spirit Animal concept guitar We love seeing the Raspberry Pi incorporated into old technology such as radios, games consoles and unwanted toys. And we also love Pi-based music projects
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Spirit Animal: a guitar with a built-in synthesiser
Geeky Gadgets Awesome Raspberry Pi Selfiebot camera project Geeky Gadgets If you are interested in building your very own Raspberry Pi camera project to take selfies, you may be interested in the SelfieBot which was originally constructed for the Adafruit booth at the Seattle Mini Maker Faire 2017.
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Awesome Raspberry Pi Selfiebot camera project – Geeky Gadgets
Does your camera giggle and smile as it takes your photo? Does your camera spit out your image from a thermal printer? No
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SelfieBot: taking and printing photos with a smile
GeekWire Raspberry Pi Foundation picks Seattle's Living Computers Museum + Labs as one of four US sites for 'Picademy' GeekWire The value of Pi will be unusually high this summer at Living Computers: Museum + Labs in Seattle. The Raspberry Pi Foundation, the UK nonprofit behind the incredibly popular and inexpensive Raspberry Pi computer, has chosen Seattle as one of only four …
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Cue the lights! Cue the music! Picademy is back for another year stateside. We’re excited to bring our free computer science and digital making professional development program for educators to four new cities this summer — you can apply right now
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2018 Picademy dates in the United States
This column is from The MagPi issue 49 . You can download a PDF of the full issue for free or subscribe to receive the print edition in your mailbox or the digital edition on your tablet. All proceeds from the print and digital editions help the Raspberry Pi Foundation achieve its charitable goals
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Beyond the bookcase
Clive: We like wearable computers; we like music; but most of all we like wearing Blake’s 7 style gauntlets, playing air guitar and head banging. So we were delighted when Adam Smith-Kipnis of Team Hackcouture.io , a small team of technologists and designers “passionate about wearable computing”, got in touch to tell us about their recent win at a wearable computing hackathon. We were really impressed by the short development time and the amount of tech they managed to jam in, including RFID, accelerometers and conductive fabrics. Adam kindly says that the Raspberry Pi was “a core element of our success” and here he tells us a bit more about the hackathon and their winning entry: —- Smell the glove (Photo Credit: HackThings.com & Phil Kast) This past weekend at the Seattle Interactive Conference, AT&T hosted a ‘wearable computing’ themed hackathon competition. On Tuesday night, team Hackcouture.io was awarded first place with our invention of a mobile, gesture detecting fabric glove, paired with our own air guitar iPhone app.
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Gesture detecting air guitar glove with added head banging goodness
Here’s Rob’s final route and itinerary for his heroic 2nd Raspberry Pi US Roadshow . We spent weeks trying arrange the route so that it looked like a caffeine molecule– even making Rob take arbitrary day trips to add on the CH3 groups–to no avail. Tuesday 6th August – Pumping Station One , Chicago, IL – http://pumpingstationone.org/2013/08/raspberry-pi-rob-bishop-aug-6th-ps1/ Thursday 8th August – Indiannapolis, IN – TBC Friday 9th August – LVL1 , Louisville, KY – http://www.lvl1.org/2013/07/30/raspberry-pi-roadshow-visit-august-9th-600-pm/ Monday 12th August – TCMaker , Minneapolis, MN – http://www.tcmaker.org/blog/2013/07/raspberry-pi-roadshow-is-coming-to-town/ Wednesday 14th August – Solid State Depot , Boulder, CO – http://www.meetup.com/SolidStateDepot/events/132742852/ Friday 16th August – Boise State University , Boise, ID – https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cq1b9d19kmdtuka11nt8n7oshco Friday 16th August – Open Lab Idaho , Boise, ID – https://plus.google.com/u/0/events/cq1b9d19kmdtuka11nt8n7oshco Monday 19th August – Mojave Makers , Mojave, CA – http://rpiroadshowmojave.eventbrite.com/ Thursday 22nd August – Jigsaw Renaissance , Seattle, WA – http://www.meetup.com/Jigsaw-Renaissance/events/131115022/ Friday 23rd August – Science City at Union Station , Kansas City, MO – TBC Saturday 24th August – Kansas City’s 4th Maker Expo , Kansas City, MO – http://makekc.org/content/rob-bishops-2013-hackerspace-tour-raspberry-pi-maker-expo Saturday 24th August – Cowtown Computer Congress , Kansas City, MO – http://www.c3kc.org/2013/08/01/are-you-ready-for-some-raspbery-pi/ Rob will present a talk entitled “Raspberry Pi – One Year On” that will cover both the origin story of the Raspberry Pi as well as outlining recent developments.
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2nd Raspberry Pi US Roadshow is go!