This column is from The MagPi issue 59 . You can download a PDF of the full issue for free, or subscribe to receive the print edition through your letterbox or the digital edition on your tablet.
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Community Profile: Estefannie Explains It All
Hackaday Daily Prophet is a Magic Newspaper! (Kinda) Hackaday The seven inch display is secured inside a poster frame, surrounded by a customized front page of the wizard paper — weaving the tale of his trip — and controlled by a Raspberry Pi 3. When someone approaches, an Adafruit infrared sensor detects the …
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Daily Prophet is a Magic Newspaper! (Kinda) – Hackaday
In our newest resource video, Content and Curriculum Manager Laura Sach introduces viewers to the basics of soldering. Getting started with soldering Learn the basics of how to solder components together, and the safety precautions you need to take. Find a transcript of this video in our accompanying learning resource: raspberrypi.org/learning/getting-started-with-soldering/ So sit down, grab your Raspberry Pi Zero, and prepare to be schooled in the best (and warned about the worst) practices in the realm of soldering.
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Getting started with soldering
Most people would visit The Wizarding World of Harry Potter and bring back a few souvenirs to adorn their shelves. But for Piet Rullens Jr , with a video from his trip to hand, that simply wasn’t enough. Daily Prophet poster with moving object Daily Prophet with moving object Taking to Photoshop, Piet designed a copy of the Daily Prophet, the newspaper from the original book and film series, and included an article about his trip to the Harry Potter theme park
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Harry Potter and the Real-Life Daily Prophet
On Saturday, British ESA astronaut Tim Peake returned to Earth after six months on the International Space Station. During his time in orbit, he did a huge amount of work to share the excitement of his trip with young people and support education across the curriculum: as part of this, he used our two Astro Pi computers, Izzy and Ed , to run UK school students’ code and play their music in space.
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Astro Pi: Goodnight, Mr Tim
Ben here: I’m on the education team at the Raspberry Pi Foundation in Cambridge, UK. As part of our outreach work I’m visiting the USA next month, where I could be visiting your school or hackspace. Standing in front of people talking about Raspberry Pi
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Ben’s Raspberry Pi US Tour – August 2014
You may have noticed on Twitter (or from their absence) that some of our team were away in San Francisco last week for Maker Faire. Clive, Carrie Anne and Alex Bradbury joined forces with Pimoroni and ran a stall promoting Raspberry Pi and its use in education. Here’s a video MAKE put out, featuring Clive talking about some of our recent developments such as the free educational material for everyone to teach , learn and make with Raspberry Pi: The team spoke to a lot of people at Maker Faire, gave talks, visited hackspaces and crammed a lot of outreach in to the trip – so once they’ve recovered we’ll be sharing their experiences and adventures in further blog posts.
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‘Educating with Raspberry Pi’ at Maker Faire
One of our longstanding goals has been for Raspberry Pi to ship with a complete set of common programming languages. Until now, there’s been one glaring omission from this list: Java, which by some estimates is the most popular language of all (duck and cover – flamewar incoming). It’s therefore fantastic to be able to announce that we’ve added the official hard-float Oracle Java 7 JDK to our repository.
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Oracle Java on Raspberry Pi
Young maker says Raspberry Pi is way to go opensource.com A few weeks ago I was able to attend the Mini Maker Faire in Cleveland, Ohio where I got to meet with local makers and discuss a variety of subjects including Raspberry Pi , 3D Printing, and programming.
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Young maker says Raspberry Pi is way to go – opensource.com
A few days ago, Fred and Ernest Lotter dropped into the office to pick up the last boxes of swag and Raspberry Pis they’re taking with them on their epic Raspberry Pi odyssey through Europe, Russia, the Middle East and Africa. You can read more about their trip in our earlier post
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Fred and Ernest are en route!