James Mitchell (@monkeymademe) is organising a Raspberry Jam in Berlin on 5th July. Booking is open and he’s currently looking for people to come along and talk/showcase their projects. Read more on their website
Build a castle with Minecraft on the #RaspberryPi
Matt Hawkins decided that he wanted to build something cool in Minecraft. But, using Python on the Pi Edition of Minecraft he was able to do this via a script. Read how he did it here.
Record TV on a #RaspberryPi with tvheadend
Mike Redrobe has written a tutorial on getting a UB499-T2 DVB tuner working with the Raspberry Pi. It deals with downloading firmware, configuring the software and finally recording onto the Pi’s storage system. Read more here.
Matboard: easy-to-use GPIO board for the #RaspberryPi from a father-and-son team
Father-and-son team Martin and Matthew Brabham have worked together to build a GPIO board for the Pi. The Matboard features 4 LEDs, 4 buttons, 4 relays, a darlington pair transistor buffer to drive the relays and buffer the inputs and a prototyping area. It’s their hope that it will inspire people to pick up their Pis and get making! You can get a kit with all the parts to solder together yourself for £21 (rising to £24 post-earlybird) or a pre-soldered one for £29. Read more and support this great family project on Kickstarter.
Use a PIR sensor with your #RaspberryPi
This is a nice little project to get you using your GPIO pins – a movement detector using a PIR sensor. Read how to do it here
Interviews with the #RaspberryPi Foundation
Here are a couple of interviews with members of the Raspberry Pi Foundation which gives you some insight into their work and viewpoint.
The first is with Carrie Anne Philbin by TechRadar in which she discusses making technology more inclusive and diverse. Read it here.
The second is from Linux Voice magazine who are keeping in line with their statement that they will open-source all their content. This interview is with most of the education team (Clive Beale, Carrie Anne Philbin & Ben Nuttall) and appeared in the second issue of LV. Read it here.