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Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Poly+ 5 is a Raspberry Pi 5 case in two flavours and colours. The case itself is moulded plastic with none of the aluminium work we’ve come to expect. The slightly transparent slidable top cover is available in red or black with a black base in both cases. The standard model…

Reading Time: 2 minutes“I used Raspberry Pi because I was recently working with Raspberry Pi and cameras for another project, a digital sensor for a film camera,” says Michael. “Although there are definitely simpler solutions with cheaper microcontrollers, I find it valuable to start with techniques I know rather than going down rabbit holes of…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLucy Hattersley has all the AI kit and an urge to build something real

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe first thing to decide is which Raspberry Pi model to use before assembling the kit. PiDog will work with Raspberry Pi 4, 3B+, 3B, and Zero 2 W. Using a Raspberry Pi 5 is not recommended since its extra power requirements put too much of a strain on the battery power…

Reading Time: 3 minutesChildhood wonder Stefano’s first computer, a Commodore Vic20, was something he could program himself and opened up a world of possibilities. Most importantly, this first computer awakened Stefano to the idea of tinkering and eventually led to him pursuing a degree in electronic engineering. Over the past 20 years he has worked…

Reading Time: 2 minutesGear Guide 2025! Our Gear Guide 2025! has your back. Discover a treasure trove of Raspberry Pi devices and great accessories taking us into a glittering new year. Gift a project Sometimes the perfect gift is one you made yourself. Christmas Elf, Rob Zwetsloot has a fantastic feature for constructing your gifts…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA ton of supporting products launcged with Raspberry Pi Pico 2 and the RP2350, including a lot of items that were powered by RP2350. One of these included the excellent Thumby Color game system, and we finally have a few for a competition – enter below…

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt comes fully assembled, which is very nice as putting together the various motors and other components together correctly has been a pain with similar products in the past. All you need to do is turn it on and get it connected to your Wi-Fi network, either via a wireless access point…

Reading Time: 2 minutesAI Projects Discover a range of practical AI Projects that put Raspberry Pi’s AI smarts to good use. We’ve got people detectors, ANPR trackers, pose detectors, text generators, music generators, and an intelligent pill dispenser. Handheld gaming Retro gaming on the move can be fun and creative. PJ Evans grabs some spare…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSave 35% off the cover price with a subscription to The MagPi magazine. 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…

Reading Time: 3 minutesFriday kicked off with a talk on Dina St Johnston, founder of the UK’s first independent software company, which she started in 1959. After that came computing with human-worn sensors; mainframes; human creativity in the age of AI; and a look at Raftabar the robot, which uses facial recognition (and two Raspberry…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWith a six-digit, seven-segment display such as the HDSP-2000 (itself an unusual choice – he hasn’t made this easy), Vitalii needed to find a way to multiplex the signals coming out of the chip, multiplying the I/O signals with transistors until he had enough to control each of the segments in…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteAlternatively, if you have access to a soldering iron and a drill, you can build your own home arcade setup. This build by SrGamer is based on a Raspberry Pi 5, and features two joysticks, loads of buttons and a gloriously chunky red power switch built into the case. The case…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteIf you’ve ever tried to specialise in any field of making, you’ll find that at some point you’ll have stopped – or at least delayed – creating things, in order to make things that help you make things. If you’re at the start of your journey into woodworking, for example, you’ll…

Reading Time: 2 minutesHow did you join Raspberry Pi? I was working part time alongside job hunting after uni, and came across the application for a graphic design role at Raspberry Pi. I then got invited for an interview where I got to meet my lovely team, and speak through a few of my projects.…

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s refreshing that newer doesn’t always have to mean bigger and better. I’ve been using a Raspberry Pi 4 for the last few years as a desktop Linux machine, and although it could be faster, then thing that holds me back from upgrading it is nothing to do with the Pi itself.…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThomas Killus has created such a brolly using a Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller board. It sends instructions to strips of standard WS2812b addressable RGB LEDs that run along the ribs of an umbrella, and this in turn brightly disperses light across the adjoining panels. The umbrella would certainly shine bright in a…

Reading Time: 2 minutesYou don’t have to use this little dock mechanism – we can definitely imagine 3D-printing an enclosure that sticks to the back of the lid with a few cables between the laptop and Raspberry Pi. However you choose to connect your Raspberry Pi though, it doesn’t require any extra software setup and…