YOUR OFFICIAL RASPBERRY PI MAGAZINE

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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 PI 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 YOUR #PIZERO 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
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EDITORIAL
Managing Editor: Russell Barnes
russell@raspberrypi.org
Features Editor: Rob Zwetsloot
Sub Editors: Laura Clay, Phil King, Lorna Lynch
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DESIGN
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Designers: Lee Allen, Mike Kay
Font used & inspired by: PurePixel
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PUBLISHING
For advertising & licensing:
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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.
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