Issue #140 - Izzy

Hi everyone

You’ll notice today’s issue has a new look: this comes with the news that Pi Weekly has become the official Raspberry Pi newsletter and has been moved to a new home at raspberrypi.org/weekly. All the old issues are archived there, and the newsletter will continue to go out every week in the usual way. There’ll be more info on the blog later today.

This week astronaut Tim Peake booted up the second Astro Pi on the International Space Station; this one is named Izzy, and you can follow her on Twitter @astro_pi_ir.

Ben

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  (raspberrypi.org)
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  (raspberrypi.org)
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• Three great GameMaker games for Raspberry Pi

  (raspberrypi.org)
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• Raspberry Pi: what is it and why do I need one?

  (liquidlight.co.uk)
  A good round-up for newcomers to the world of Pi

• A Quadcopter Controlled By A Pi Zero

  (hackaday.com)
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• Raspberry Pi Zero review

  (itpro.co.uk)
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• Wi-Fi banana all grown up

  (theregister.co.uk)
  The recently featured banana WiFi code project has gone enterprise

• DIY baseboard for RPi Compute Module

  (linuxgizmos.com)
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• Cluster Hat for Raspberry Pi Zeros

  (youtube.com)
  A HAT for adding four Pi Zeros to your Pi 2

• 42 of the Most Useful Raspberry Pi Commands

  (circuitbasics.com)
  A list of some of the most common terminal commands used on the Pi