Issue #256 - Scouts
Greetings, everyone!
This week, we were thrilled to launch a new partnership with the Scouts in the UK. The new Digital Maker Staged Activity Badge will help tens of thousands of young people learn skills for life. Lots of people in our community are also involved with scouting organisations around the world, and the online materials to support the badge are available to everyone.
We also announced that we are curating this year’s Education Summit at PyCon UK, and enjoyed two hanging plotter builds, heard about the first Raspberry Jam in the capital of Cameroon, and found gardening projects, arty projects, whimsical projects, and solid useful sensible projects. Issue 7 of HackSpace magazine is out this week too.
In next week’s newsletter, read about yesterday’s utterly brilliant Coolest Projects International – but we need a little rest first.
In the meantime, have a great week.
Helen
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Working with the Scout Association on digital skills for life
(raspberrypi.org) Launching our new partnership and the new Digital Maker Staged Activity Badge -
Join us at the Education Summit at PyCon UK 2018
(raspberrypi.org) Young coders' day on Saturday, educators' day on Sunday -
HackSpace magazine 7: Internet of Everything
(raspberrypi.org) All you can IoT -
Enchanting images with Inky Lines, a Pi‑powered polargraph
(raspberrypi.org) Evolving plotter project creates unique image renderings -
Traceur Pendulaire 'DrawPi'
(raspberrypi.org) Low-cost, minimalist hanging plotter -
Archimedes: The AI Robot Owl
(hackster.io) Alex Glow builds an emotionally literate (ish) familiar with the Google AIY Vision kit incl Pi Zero W -
The Seeing Wand - Point, Push, Listen
(zakon.org) Build a wand that says what it sees with a Pi Zero W + camera module + Pimoroni Speaker pHat -
Counting bees
(matpalm.com) With Raspberry Pi and a fully convolutional classifier -
Raspberry Pi Osborne 1 Rebuild
(instructables.com) Retrofitting the first portable computer -
Monitoring a Greenhouse with Ubuntu
(linuxuk.org) Logging temperature and humidity with Ubuntu MATE on a Pi 3 -
Infrared Laser Tag with Raspberry Pi Zero W
(instructables.com) With a server, Pi Zeros, and 3D-printed equipment -
Should I water?
(github.com) Smart watering advice with a Feather and a Pi -
Curved Lane Detection
(hackster.io) With OpenCV and Python using a Pi 3 B and Nvidia board -
How to send data to Ubidots Using Raspberry Pi and Node-RED
(hackster.io) Get data from your Raspberry Pi to your cloud account -
Kegerator / Bar Monitoring Tool
(github.com) RaspberryPi + Docker + Beer + Metrics + Slack -
Dual Sensor Theremin for Sonic Pi
(rbnrpi.wordpress.com) Theremin-like instrument with a Pi, a RasPiO Pro HAT, two ultrasonic distance sensors, Python code, and Sonic Pi -
Smart Landscaping RGBW Lights
(hackster.io) With a Pi 3B, Android Things, Google's App Engine, IoT Core, and Datastore -
Self-contained LED effects for the Raspberry Pi Zero
(github.com) Pretty sparkles with a Pi Zero, Pimoroni Scroll pHAT HD, and the Go programming language
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Raspberry Jam Cameroon #PiParty
(raspberrypi.org)
The Raspberry Jam Camer team are founding a Raspberry Pi community in the country's capital -
Circumference, the datacentre-in-a-box
(crowdsupply.com)
Crowdfund a cluster of eight or 32 Pis for high-performance computing and cloud software development, testing, and education -
Dremel table saw for accurately correcting PCB edges
(raspi.tv)
Useful, informative vid from Alex Eames of RasPi.TV
This newsletter is curated by Raspberry Pi