Issue #204 - Energy

Hi everyone!

This week, we’re delighted for Femi Owolade-Coombes, the eleven-year-old organiser of the inclusive South London Raspberry Jam, who has won a Diana Award for his work sharing his passion for computing with other young people. Femi is fundraising for his next project, to run robotics and physical computing workshops for 100 young people in Bangladesh.

Reuben Paul, also eleven, demonstrated the dangers of insecure IoT devices by using Bluetooth phones belonging to experts at a cybersecurity conference to hack a teddy bear.

Adults did good stuff with Raspberry Pi too, but it didn’t make the news in quite the same way. Nonetheless, our guest blog post from OpenEnergyMonitor prompted lots of quietly satisfied comments on our social channels from contented users of their open source energy monitoring tools. It’s well worth a look. Their hardware, like many excellent things (cough), is made in Wales.

Till next time,

Helen

• Open source energy monitoring using Raspberry Pi

  (raspberrypi.org)
  Tools for understanding the way you use energy, made in Wales

• BackMap helps people who are visually impaired navigate cities and indoor areas

  (techcrunch.com)
  This backpack vibrates to let you know when to turn

• List of mods for Google AIY Projects kit for Raspberry Pi

  (ktinkerer.co.uk)
  A list of documented mods to help people get the most out of the kit; submit yours!

• Crash Course Computer Science with Carrie Anne Philbin

  (raspberrypi.org)
  Raspberry Pi's Director of Education hosts this excellent ongoing video series

• Robert, a synth for the outdoors

  (youtube.com)
  30kg of steel, with capacitive sensing to detect touch on its nine metal plates

• Pioneers challenge: make it outdoors

  (youtube.com)
  We want to celebrate UK teenagers' own outdoors-related tech projects

• American Canyon students assess Napa Valley's contribution to global warming

  (napavalleyregister.com)
  Using Raspberry Pi and sensors to measure air quality

• #CharityTuesday: Code Club for libraries

  (raspberrypi.org)
  We visited Tile Hill Library to find out how Code Clubs work outside of schools

• Antenna @ Vorspiel

  (vimeo.com)
  An art installation that captures, analyses, and reproduces speech

• PiMiniMint: A fully functioning computer and display crammed into a mints tin

  (raspberrypi.org)
  Pi Zero, display, and battery, all in an Altoids tin

• Product or project?

  (raspberrypi.org)
  Be a maker as well as a consumer, and make the thing you wish to see in the world