Issue #143 - Celebrate

Hi everyone

Last weekend was the big Raspberry Pi birthday weekend, which you can read about on Philip’s round-up.

There are 3 weeks to go in the Astro Pi coding challenges – a chance for UK schools to compete to have their code sent into space, specifically a Sense HAT MP3 player, and a piece of music composed in Sonic Pi. If you have a Sense HAT, you can have a go at the player, but as Sonic Pi is cross-platform, it’s open to anyone with access to a PC. Read more on the Astro Pi website, and see Tim Peake’s video message.

If you can make it to Cambridge on 23rd April, do come along to the Creative Technologists New Works Exhibition, to be held at the Raspberry Pi offices.

Ben

• Six women doing excellent things with Raspberry Pi

  (raspberrypi.org)
  Celebrating women in the Raspberry Pi community

• What a party!

  (raspberrypi.org)
  A round-up of the Raspberry Pi birthday weekend

• Raspberry Pi 3 review

  (uk.pcmag.com)
  Pi 3 review from PC Magazine

• Raspberry Pi's academic ambitions

  (newelectronics.co.uk)
  A look at Raspberry Pi's educational goals

• Raspberry Pi 3 – the £30 computer is better than ever

  (gadgette.com)
  The new Pi is 50% faster and has wireless connectivity

• Best Raspberry Pi accessories

  (gizmodo.co.uk)
  A variety of add-ons and accessories for different uses of your Pi

• How Raspberry Pi 3 could usher in IoT revolution

  (techcentral.co.za)
  The Raspberry Pi may become the hardware platform of choice for IoT

• 6 of the coolest Raspberry Pi projects ever

  (trustedreviews.com)
  Pi cases, GameBoy, robots, supercomputing and ballooning

• Analog, Digital, and PWM

  (pcsforme.com)
  Ethan Saadia explains PWM in GPIO Zero