As the headline says, the new issue of The MagPi magazine has been published. It’s available in WHSmith’s in the UK and Barnes & Noble or MicroCenter in the USA. It’s also available for free in PDF format from The MagPi website and via Google Play and the Apple AppStore. View the magazine by visiting The MagPi website.
UPDATE: For some reason this video no longer exists, which is a shame.
A few weeks ago, myself and Tim Richardson headed over to the Cambridge Computer Lab to meet with Adam Page, a news reporter from Cambridge TV. A couple of days ago, the resulting news report was broadcast on local television and it has now appeared online.
You can watch the video by heading over to Vimeo. Thanks to Spencer Organ and Matthew Manning who contributed footage of last year’s competition.
It was most enjoyable meeting Adam and getting to talk about the Raspberry Pi in general and Pi Wars in particular. We are busy planning and constructing courses for Pi Wars at the moment. Tickets are now on sale and you can get hold of them, and learn more about the Pi Wars competition, by visiting the Pi Wars website. If you’d like to leave a comment for Cambridge TV, head over to their website.
Thanks to Adam for making me and Tim pass for photogenic!
This just turned up in my inbox, so I thought I’d share for those of you reading my blog on this wet (in the UK) Bank Holiday.
The Pi Hut is currently running a competition, ending Tuesday, to win a brand new SenseHAT board. I covered the launch of the SenseHAT with a review and gave it 10/10. It’s a stunning board covered with sensors and a bright 8×8 LED matrix. So, if you’d like to be in with a chance of winning one, all you have to do is one of the following things:
You never know… you just might win!
And don’t forget, Jamie’s also running a 10% off everything sale until Tuesday morning!
Dexter Industries’ GoPiGo is a great robotics kit for the Pi. They’ve done several tutorials based on the kit, but this one caught my eye. This code teaches the robot how to be ‘autonomous’ to a certain extent. It allows the robot to keep moving and avoid objects by ‘looking’ left and right and then choosing the correct direction to go according to whether it detects an object in that direction. Take a look at the tutorial here or watch the video below.
Here’s a nice little Instructable project to flex your robotics muscles. Anthony (who is really just a teddy bear – seriously!) has made a nice wall-clock with two hands that are powered by steppers which are controlled by this nice little 4tronix dual stepper board. Read the Instructable here.
Just thought I’d spread the good news. The Pi Hut has just announced a Bank Holiday Weekend sale. You can get 10% off everything this weekend. Brilliant deals to be had on:
And, of course, lots more. Head over to The Pi Hut now to take a look.
