Matt Timmons-Brown (aka The Raspberry Pi Guy) has put together a great 4 minute video of highlights from the year to celebrate the Raspberry Pi’s 4th birthday, which is coming up in just 10 short days. Great job, Matt. Watch the video above and leave Matt a comment on YouTube if you enjoyed it!
You’ll be able to see it on the big screen if you’re intending to attend the Big Birthday Weekend which is in (yikes!) two weeks.
The MagPi has just published one of it’s articles online. This one covers programming the CodeBug micro-controller from a Raspberry Pi using a Python 3 library. Read it here.
Richard Saville (aka The Average Man) went to the Chelmsford Raspberry Jam last weekend and had a great time. He’s blogged his thoughts about the event with a lot of detail as to what went on there. Read it here.
Adding USB ports to the Raspberry Pi Zero seems to be a common occurrence nowadays, so I’ve not covered many of them on the blog. However, here’s a rather novel idea: taking a USB hub and fitting a Zero into it. Looking at the pictures of the build, it is very hacky but it looks great fun to do, even if this tinkerer has had to cut the corner off the Zero to fit it in the case! Take a look at the build photos here. The cheap hub can be found here on Amazon.com, although I daresay it would be fairly easy to do it with any hub that had a reasonable amount of space inside.
Junya Sakamoto wanted a little help with the later levels of Puzzle & Dragons (which is big in Japan). So he added a Gertbot to his Raspberry Pi and then hooked up some motors and a rig to allow the Pi to press the touch screen of his iPhone. He then created a program to scan the game ‘board’ and then work out the best moves to make, which the Pi interprets as commands for the motors. You can see a build video below as well as an example of the machine playing the game.
Unboxing videos… you either love them or you hate them. I’m somewhat ambivalent – if they’re good and to the point, great. Fortunately, the video above by Keith Downling is one of these. It’s an unboxing of Pimoroni’s Flotilla Mega Treasure Chest. At 12 minutes, it’s not short, but then there’s a lot to get through! So, if you’re interested to see what’s in the Chest in advance of it going on general sale, take a look above.
