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Reading Time: 3 minutesThis camera would work with Santiago’s beloved, but rather small, Maksukov telescope. Having been a huge fan since childhood of all things space-related, and with plans to study astrophysics and masters and PhD level, Santiago suddenly saw how coding might just fit in… and the idea for Hubble Pi was born. Mapping…

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe’re also a fan of the NanoSound DACs, so we were quite intrigued when we found out about a melding of the two into one product: NanoSound ONE (£59 / $80). On paper it’s a simple change – the board attached to the roof of the case that provides a fan and…

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat you need is a device that can scan a wide field of sky and snap away whenever it picks up something bright. The Cheap All Sky Camera certainly fits the bill. Created by Jippo – whose nickname is a reference to a late 1970s and early 1980s Finnish magazine that encouraged…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe team of Ruth Amos and Shawn Brown might be able to help these kids, though, with Kids Invent Stuff. “Kids Invent Stuff in a YouTube channel which brings to life kids’ invention ideas, created to inspire primary aged children around engineering and STEM,” they tell us. “Young people are encouraged to…

Reading Time: 3 minutesIts 5.7-inch display is much bigger than Pimoroni’s previous e-ink boards, the Inky wHAT and pHAT. Indeed, it’s considerably larger than a full-size Raspberry Pi board, for which an extra female header (to boost height) and metal standoffs are supplied. Care is needed to hold it by the edges when mounting, so…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis month Rob has written a guide to building a single media centre that does everything. Discover the parts you’ll need, the best accessories and how to set up the software. This feature-packed guide turns Raspberry Pi into the ultimate media centre. Raspberry Pi Pico Our deep dive into Raspberry Pi Pico…

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Reading Time: 5 minutesYou can pick up a Raspberry Pi Pico from just $4 / £3.60, or free with the latest edition of HackSpace magazine. Programs written for other MicroPython-compatible microcontroller boards will work on Raspberry Pi Pico, and vice versa – sometimes needing minor modification for different features between boards – giving Raspberry Pi…

Reading Time: 9 minutesYou can pick up a Raspberry Pi Pico from just $4 / £3.60, or free with the latest edition of HackSpace magazine. The easiest way to use Pico, though, is to attach it to a breadboard – and for that, you’ll need to attach pin headers. You’ll need a soldering iron with…

Reading Time: 5 minutesRaspberry Pi Pico is a development board built around this powerful yet low-cost RP2040 microcontroller. Like Raspberry Pi computers, Raspberry Pi Pico features a pin header with 40 connections, along with a new debug connection enabling you to analyse your programs directly from another computer (typically by connecting it directly to the…

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis mini HAT looks very similar to other Pirate Audio products, with an integrated 1.3-inch colour LCD screen surrounded by four push-buttons. Located on either side of the board are two tiny digital microphones. These feature a SiSonic acoustic sensor, a serial ADC (analogue to digital converter), and an interface to convert…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe 1980s gem inspired the affordable microcomputer we’ve come to know and love, so we adore how this project brings both together, using Raspberry Pi to enhance the BBC Micro by allowing another external CPU to be added. This idea is not new. BBC Micro maker Acorn included a port called Tube…

Reading Time: 3 minutesLibreOffice Getting Started Guide You don’t need to pay big bucks or for a regular subscription to access high-quality office software. Available on all major platforms, LibreOffice is a fully fledged office suite that includes apps for word processing (Writer), spreadsheets (Calc), presentations (Impress), vector graphics editing (Draw), mathematical formulae (Math), and…

Reading Time: 3 minutesRecognising that, musician and engineer Zack Scholl got to work on a solution, using a Raspberry Pi to add MIDI functionality. The end result is music to our ears since it not only makes the synthesizer infinitely more playable but has allowed Zack to record an entire music album. “The ribbon controller…

Reading Time: 6 minutesStep 01: Install the Free Unix Spectrum Emulator Also available in the RetroPie emulation distro we’ve used in previous tutorials, the FUSE ZX Spectrum emulator can be found in Raspberry Pi OS’s standard repositories, so installation is a bare minimum of fuss. Open a Terminal window and type: sudo apt install fuse-emulator*…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe two parts are sold separately, but designed to work together. The result resembles a Raspberry Pi-based Microsoft Surface laptop. To the rear is an adjustable kickstand, which the pi-top [4] case clicks onto. An 80cm display cable connects the two elements. The length ensures you can disconnect the pi-top [4] and…

Reading Time: 3 minutesAfter buying some commercial guitar pedals, Raphaël noted that they’re normally run in series, but wondered what would happen if they could be run in parallel. “It makes a pretty big difference,” he tells us. “Suppose you have two distortion pedals: if you run them in series, you’ll hear the cumulated effect…

Reading Time: 2 minutes“My eyes lack depth perception, so I really wanted a backup camera for safety,” he explains. Off-the-shelf options were expensive, so he decided to put his engineering skills to the test. The parts ended up costing him “a fraction” of a readymade product. Powering ahead Originally, he wanted a backup camera and…

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Embedded Learner Board (£19 / $26) takes it a step further, though. Also, it’s not a HAT, which allows it to be a bit platform agnostic – it works with Arduino boards as well. The board itself contains a ton of different components: a 16×2 LCD display, a 7-segment display, buttons,…

Reading Time: 3 minutesDavid has been a radio enthusiast since he was a kid, and was wrestling with a DAB radio in his kitchen with spotty reception. “I thought it might be time to replace this radio and started to wonder if I could build my own connected to the internet,” David explains. “I know…

Reading Time: 3 minutes“Novaspirit Tech started back in 2003 as a placeholder for my Macromedia Flash web designs on GeoCities,” he recalls. “Then I relaunched the website at its own domain in 2010 to host my tutorials and projects, such as installing GPU on laptops to installing kernels on Android phones. In 2013 my website…

Reading Time: 3 minutesBut where to start? That’s where our lead feature comes in. It’s packed with information and advice for getting the most out of your new Raspberry Pi 400 computer. Get creative with Raspberry Pi arts & crafts projects Get out your sticky tape, cardboard and crafting tools with our guide to making…