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

Contents

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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

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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