Toby Kurien has released a video (see above) and accompanying code for a Pygame-driven implementation of the famous Star Trek LCARS interface. It’s really top-notch work, with sound effects and everything. One of my personal holy grails, so I’ll be dipping into the code really soon! Leave a comment for Toby on YouTube and take a look at the code here.
Raspberry Pi Zero available now from The Pi Hut
The Pi Hut has now got, in stock, some Raspberry Pi Zeros! The first 50% of their stock went on sale at 9am. The rest will go on sale at 7pm tonight. There are some great bundles available or you can buy the Zero on its own. Head over to The Pi Hut to get your Zero.
Jamie has put together some tips for getting your hands on a Zero – go to The Pi Hut to read it.
Raspberry Pi strategy document published by CEO Philip Colligan
Philip Colligan has been CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation for the past few months, getting to know the lay of the land, understanding this crazy community of ours and settling himself into his new role. In December, the Foundation’s board approved a strategy document and Philip has now published it on his blog. He is inviting all interested parties to read and comment on it. It’s a comprehensive document. Like all strategies it’s full of ideas and general direction without going too much into the specifics of ‘how’, but that’s probably a good thing as it allows the Foundation’s team to contribute to the methods to be used. Take a look at the strategy document here.
Pi Podcast episode 15 features Raspberry Pi Creative Technologist
Creative Technologist and creator of the PiNet system (that enables groups of Pis to be controlled centrally) Andrew Mulholland is the latest Pi celeb to be interviewed by the Pi Podcast boys. The episode is available on the Pi Podcast website.
Girl Scout cookies protected by a Raspberry Pi
Jamie over at Initial State has posted a great new tutorial which uses an ultrasonic sensor with a GrovePi board to keep an eye on a stash of Girl Scout cookies. When an intruder is detected, the IS service is called and an SMS generated to a named recipient. Great little IoT project. Read more about it here.
I’ll be looking at the Initial State service once the Big Birthday Weekend is finished – I just need to find a little time 🙂
New Kickstarter aims to bring retro gaming controller for the Raspberry Pi Zero to market
Tony from dtronixs.com got in touch with me to tell me about their new Kickstarter. It’s called the R-Kade Zero and it is a range of gaming controllers that fit neatly on top of the Raspberry Pi Zero to allow you to control retro games played through a variety of emulators. You can take a look at the campaign video above or visit the campaign here.