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Reading Time: < 1 minuteEver been in a hotel or AirBnB with rubbish WiFi? Make it better by using a Raspberry Pi with PiFi, a powerful dongle that let’s you create a secure wireless router with a Raspberry Pi – including VPN capabilities. We have five to give away, and you can enter below…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIntroverts aren’t shy, quiet creatures that need to stay at home all day – it’s more complicated than that. Where extroverts thrive on social interaction, introverts find it takes a bit of energy to be around other people. When they’re feeling full of social energy it’s fun to socialise; when that…

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt also has the equally important connectivity requirements of modern industrial automation. From your classic terminal pins, serial connector, Ethernet, etc., there’s also access to the built-in Wi-Fi and Bluetooth of CM4, along with a GPS antenna add-on, and you can expand it with LoRa or LTE for more radio connections. Ready…

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat’s inside? • Raspberry Pi 4 • Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 • 5 V / 30 A power supply • 615 Adafruit NeoPixels • Bluetooth speaker A script runs on boot, which twinkles the NeoPixels in the traditional 1980s supercomputer colours: yellow and red. Another script can be run to play…

Reading Time: 3 minutes20-pages of people & projects In 150 issues, we’ve seen a huge range of epic builds with Raspberry Pi computers at their heart. We’ve got everything machine learning prosthetic arms to underwater archaeology submarines; old-school equipment and futuristic robots. Over 20 pages with 150 incredible project ideas await you. Archiving old floppy…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSave 35% off the cover price with a subscription to The MagPi. UK subscribers get three issues for just £10 and a FREE Raspberry Pi Pico W, then pay £30 every six issues. You’ll save money and get a regular supply of in-depth reviews, features, guides and other Raspberry Pi enthusiast…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe Standard kit features the robotic arm, breakout board (for Raspberry Pi 4 or 5), power supply, paper ‘map’, wooden blocks, coloured balls, and tags. The Advanced version adds some flat-pack shelving for ‘warehousing’ operations. A smartphone companion app is the easiest way to try out AI modes such as object…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe lightweight gadget has a month-long standby battery life and recharges via its USB-C connector in two or three hours. The clever design hides the USB-C port at one end, revealed when you firmly yank off the silver plastic retaining clip. The NeoRulerGO (£55 [£47 now] / $59 [was $69 at launch])…

Reading Time: 3 minutesSensible but silly Allie has form with Adventure Time builds, having created a life-size BMO games console to house an OctoPrint 3D printer (see Allie’s GitHub page). “My technical background is incredibly diverse, but when it comes to electronics I am completely self-taught,” reveals Allie. “I got interested in the Raspberry Pi…

Reading Time: 2 minutesLike Raspberry Pi itself, the magazine has just been going from strength to strength – although we’d have not got anywhere without the wonderful community we get to highlight, and the readers who pick up a copy at the shops or get it delivered to their door every month. Thank you all!…

Reading Time: 2 minutesEnter, PiFi, a simple kit that allows you to easily create a fast and secure wireless network with just a Raspberry Pi. The kit comes with just three items: a microSD card with the software preloaded, an Ethernet cable to plug into the nearest router, and the all-important Wi-Fi dongle that handles…

Reading Time: 4 minutes“I was inspired to create the Hackberry Pi Zero about three years ago when I found a project about reverse-engineering on Hackaday,” Zitao says. “I thought it would be really cool to have a device with a thumb keyboard, so I began reverse-engineering old BlackBerry keyboards and made it technically work. I…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe latest edition of The MagPi covers all the new products in depth, with detailed specifications, documentation, and interviews with the CM5 engineer. We’ve also got information on the new Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, Raspberry Pi Hub, and Raspberry Pi Connect service. There’s a lot of new products this month and…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe’ve been looking forward to the new Raspberry Pi Monitor for ages now – the inexpensive and lightweight display is perfect for so many uses, whether you’re in a classroom, at your desk, or on the go. We have five to giveaway, and you can enter the competition below…

Reading Time: 4 minutesWax differs from most existing music managers in three ways. Instead of individual tracks, music is catalogued as ‘works’ – such as an album, a symphony, an opera, etc. Secondly, works are categorised by genre, but it also allows you to tag works in a way that is relevant to the genre…

Reading Time: 5 minutes“I love the idea of using bumper stickers as a form of self-expression, but I got to thinking about how ‘permanent’ they are, and how my own style, mood and taste tends to change relatively quickly,” he says. “I wanted to see how I could resolve those things – could I make…

Reading Time: 2 minutes“Using a Raspberry Pi Pico, a light dependent resistor (LDR), a breadboard, some DuPont cables, and tape, I automated the famous Google T-Rex game,” Bas explains. “The LDR detects differences in analogue measurements whenever it senses cacti, which are always dark-coloured and appear on the same plane. The analogue-digital converter [ADC] port…