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PI SKATEBOARDForget hoverboards – commute in style with this Pi-powered electric deck
Search for treasure in the back yard with this metal-detecting robot
Take a tour of this incredible internet-connected cityscape built from bricks
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This homage to 2001: A Space Odyssey makes for a stylish voice assistant
Discoverer 34
Internet of LEGO 38
HAL 9000 40
YOUR PROJECTS
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WINDOWS 10 IOT CORELearn to use IoT Core, make projects, and get more out of your Raspberry Pi
ContentsIssue 48 August 2016 raspberrypi.org/magpi
COVER FEATURETUTORIALS
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> NEWS 06The biggest stories from the world of Raspberry Pi
> TECHNICAL FAQ 64Got a problem? Maybe we can help…
> BOOK REVIEWS 84The best reads for coders and hackers
> THE FINAL WORD 96More musings from Raspberry Pi’s Matt Richardson
REGULARS
> WILDLIFE CAM KIT 80> ANALOG ZERO 82> PICO-8 83
REVIEWS
Nine-year-old Arnav Sharma has built an award-winning air monitoring kit for asthma sufferers
Young coders in Australia were asked to aim for the moon in a world record attempt
Asthma Pi
One Giant Leap for Coding
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COMMUNITY
> THIS MONTH IN PI 86We round up other goings-on in the Pi community
> EVENTS 90Get involved in a community gathering near you
> YOUR LETTERS 92Talk to us about the magazine or Raspberry Pi
IN THE NEWS
Go for gold by programming four fun Olympic events in Scratch:
archery, weightlifting, hurdles, and synchronised swimming
THE BIG FEATURE 68
> TWEET-O-METER 44Use an RGB LED to show the popularity of tweets
> INTRODUCING C 46Create variables and perform mathematical operations
> PI BAKERY 48Make an Olympic swimming simulator with Mike Cook
> DROPBOX ON PI 54Upload and download files from the cloud service
> SONIC PI 56Learn how to master its powerful slicing capabilities
> SCRATCH BOAT RACE GAME 58Make a fun boat race game in Scratch on the Pi
> POETRY GENERATOR 60Use word lists in Scratch to generate random poems
> ARCADE MACHINE BUILD (PT 2) 62Create the controls for your RaspCade arcade machine
See what happens when a bunch
of robots are controlled by web
chat room users
LET’S ROBOT 8
SCRATCH OLYMPICS 201688
Practical tips for setting up your own Raspberry Jam from educator Cat Lamin
MAKE YOUR OWN JAM
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A treasure trove of Pimoroni HATs and Goodies