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Reading Time: < 1 minuteSave 37% off the cover price with a subscription to The MagPi magazine. Try three issues for just £5, then pay £25 every six issues. You’ll save money and get a regular supply of in-depth reviews, features, guides and other PC enthusiast goodness delivered directly to your door every month. Subscribe

Reading Time: 6 minutesStep 01: The game It’s Christmas Eve, ten to midnight in 2020. The moon is waxing gibbous, at a phase of 73%, the constellation of Orion stands as high in the sky as it gets from these latitudes, and Santa is about to make his overhead pass. He is propelled through the…

Reading Time: 3 minutesSebastian spent some time working on the design and aesthetic of the cube, although ‘technically’ it’s not a cube, as he explains. “Since the cube is designed to be stationary and usually only viewed from one side, it is not actually a complete LED cube, but only has three sides with LED…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe brains behind it is Michael Pick, whose attention to detail is mightily impressive. “I got the idea after making my first mini computer, the World’s Smallest Gaming PC, and I thought the Apple iMac would make for a fun and interesting build video,” he tells us. Before cracking on with the…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe marquee addition here is support for an M.2 SATA SSD drive (the blade drives commonly found in laptops). This sits snugly in a bottom compartment and is connected to Raspberry Pi using the USB 3.0 connection (via a U-shaped adapter). It features UASP (USB Attached SCSI Protocol) support to increase performance.…

Reading Time: 6 minutesWe’re going to use the Ikea Trådfri range in this tutorial, but you can also use other compatible ranges such as Philips Hue. So, let’s brighten up our day (and night) without the need for boring light switches. Step 01: Install your smart light system Like many ‘smart’ light systems, Trådfri uses…

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe substitute beer was lousy too. “It was time to take things into my own hands” said Brett, ‘I could have got my own beer in that time’. Brett set about creating a self-service beer dispenser in which customers chose and paid for their drinks at their table and then went and…

Reading Time: 3 minutes“This developed my interest in the teaching industry,” he tells us. “After quitting my job quite early in my career, the first thing I did was to start a training centre.” In the beginning, he was mostly teaching engineering students, training them with practical hands on with microcontrollers and Raspberry Pi. “Slowly…

Reading Time: 6 minutesThe PiBoy DMG is more expensive, chunkier, and much more powerful. It has a 3.5-inch 640×480 display, both digital and analogue controls, and a total of ten buttons. You can access all Raspberry Pi 4’s USB ports and there’s an optional mini HDMI pass-through. It won’t run off AAs, so the full…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Interactive Storytelling Radio uses the same idea and asks the listener to decide what happens next. The response prompts the built-in Raspberry Pi to jump to the appropriate bit of the script and narration to continue. “The aim of the Interactive Storytelling Radio was to recreate the experience of choose your…

Reading Time: 3 minutesBecca describes herself as “mostly just a tech nerd that lives in Brooklyn, NY.” She approached her first ever Raspberry Pi project with “absolutely zero background in computer science”, but she heard about Raspberry Pi’s High Quality Camera because she reports on camera launches for work. When New York City went into…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe terrain on Mars is notoriously difficult, so any vehicle intent on exploring the Red Planet needs to be pretty hardy. Something small and agile, powered by a dependable yet powerful on-board computer, is likely to fare best against such unforgiving terrain. Something, perhaps, like a Raspberry Pi. “The rover is inspired…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe special red-foil cover is in Raspberry Pi colours (red and white) and unfolds to reveal all 100 covers of The MagPi magazine. Inside the special edition is a 20-page feature celebrating 100 moments from Raspberry Pi history. Discover 100 Raspberry Pi moments We’ve scoured the previous editions, talked to all the…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteSave 37% off the cover price with a subscription to The MagPi magazine. Try three issues for just £5, then pay £25 every six issues. You’ll save money and get a regular supply of in-depth reviews, features, guides and other PC enthusiast goodness delivered directly to your door every month. Subscribe

Reading Time: 5 minutesWe’ve put together a selection of fantastic community projects to give you some inspiration for decorating your house inside and out. Let’s get festive. Outdoor decorations Light up your street with pure seasonal cheer (and some LEDs) Xmas lights for beginners Sometimes you need to do something a little grand, especially for…

Reading Time: 6 minutesNevertheless, many have concerns about subscription costs and privacy of the data collected. The good news is that many open-source Raspberry Pi automation systems have matured significantly over the past few years. They now challenge the big players, are free of charge, and put your privacy first. Over the next three issues…

Reading Time: 2 minutesAstro Pi resources This versatile board was designed especially for a space mission. Two Astro Pi units – comprising a Raspberry Pi with Sense HAT in a special case – are currently aboard the International Space Station (ISS), orbiting 408km above the Earth. Astro Pi is an ESA (European Space Agency) project…

Reading Time: 7 minutesStep 1: All USB devices are not the same Many people tend to think you can plug any USB device into any other, but this is not strictly true. The sort of USB connector on a Raspberry Pi computer is USB-A. This connector is always used by a USB host device, like…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Lyra Handheld Game Console (£229 / $300) is attempting to change that. After a successful launch in July 2019, Kickstarter veteran Creoqode set out to make a handheld gaming system that looked the part, was easy to assemble, and was more powerful than any other Raspberry Pi-powered handheld game console on…

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhile she’s always been a part of the streams, more recent ones have been taking place much later in the day UK time so that they’re more accessible to American students. “We’re having a lot of fun!” Christina tells us. “It’s honestly the highlight of my week, and we’re getting a positive…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis is the first time we’ve seen a product that uses a Raspberry Pi for a tracking telescope before – or more accurately, an observation station. See, Stellina (£3,643 / $4,700) isn’t just for getting a better look at the moon or maybe seeing a planet, it’s designed to look into the…