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Welcome WELCOME TO THE <strong>OFFICIAL</strong> <strong>PI</strong> <strong>MAGAZINE</strong>! W e’re still reeling. We had an inkling last issue was going to be popular, but nothing prepared us for the overwhelming response it received. #40 stock was snapped up in minutes online and was sold out in most stores around the UK within hours. We had such a massive influx of subscribers, we even had to reprint the magazine just to keep up. At the time of writing, we’ve still got a few subscription copies left, so if you’re yet to grab one, see pages 26-27 for details. You can elect to receive #40 as your first issue, but only while stocks last. Which now brings us to this issue. The difficult second album. How do you top the first magazine issue in history to give away a free computer on its cover? It turns out you can’t. So we’re just going to carry on where we left off. On #40’s cover we said you could use #PiZero to learn to code while playing Minecraft, and this month we’re proving it. In our Minecraft Mashups cover feature (starting on page 16) we’ve cherry-picked some of our favourite recent ideas and experiments, some of which cross the divide between Minecraft’s virtual world and our own. Make Steve move with a wave of your hand, create amazing music and visual effects, and even have your virtual avatar take control of your electronic devices. To celebrate the successful arrival of ESA astronaut Tim Peake to the International Space Station, we’ve also got another ten pages of amazing projects and games you can make with the Sense HAT, the same hardware in the Astro Pi flight units Tim will be using over his next six months on the ISS. You can keep up with everything happening in orbit at astro-pi.org. Russell Barnes SEE PAGE 40 FOR DETAILS THIS MONTH: PROUD SUPPORTERS OF: 14 TIM PEAKE & ASTRO <strong>PI</strong> BLAST OFF! We’re in space! 10 pages of Astro Pi fun start on page 60 16 MINECRAFT MASHUPS Bring Minecraft’s virtual world to life with these projects 28 <strong>YOUR</strong> #<strong>PI</strong>ZERO PROJECTS We’ve hand-picked some of your best mini-PC projects 72 NEW YEAR, NEW YOU! 10 New Year’s resolutions made possible with Raspberry Pi FIND US ONLINE raspberrypi.org/magpi GET IN TOUCH magpi@raspberrypi.org EDITORIAL Managing Editor: Russell Barnes russell@raspberrypi.org Features Editor: Rob Zwetsloot Sub Editors: Laura Clay, Phil King, Lorna Lynch DISTRIBUTION Seymour Distribution Ltd 2 East Poultry Ave London EC1A 9PT | +44 (0)207 429 4000 DESIGN Critical Media: criticalmedia.co.uk Head of Design: Dougal Matthews Designers: Lee Allen, Mike Kay Font used & inspired by: PurePixel SUBSCRIPTIONS Select Publisher Services Ltd PO Box 6337 Bournemouth BH1 9EH | +44 (0)1202 586 848 PUBLISHING For advertising & licensing: russell@raspberrypi.org +44 (0)7904 766523 Publisher: Liz Upton CEO: Eben Upton CONTRIBUTORS Sam Aaron, Boris Adryan, Mike Cook, CrazySqueak, Tony Goodhew, Gareth Halfacree, Lucy Hattersley, Dave Honess, Jasper, Phil King, Simon Monk, Matt Richardson, Lucy Rogers & Richard Smedley This magazine is printed on paper sourced from sustainable forests and the printer operates an environmental management system which has been assessed as conforming to ISO 14001. The MagPi magazine is published by Raspberry Pi (Trading) Ltd., Mount Pleasant House, Cambridge, CB3 0RN. The publisher, editor and contributors accept no responsibility in respect of any omissions or errors relating to goods, products or services referred to or advertised in the magazine. Except where otherwise noted, content in this magazine is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0). ISSN: 2051-9982. raspberrypi.org/magpi January March 2016 2015 3
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