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Reading Time: 3 minutesA familiar tale Matt began with a series of traditional telescopes, but found them “a little frustrating to use in practice”. It was hard to locate objects in the sky and most of what he could see was “often just a grey smudge”. Digital telescopes were not that common and were expensive,…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteOn the smooth opposite side of the two parts are thermal pads; for the top piece, there are three that stick to the SoC, power management IC, and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth module. The base section is almost totally covered by a single thermal pad that sticks to the underside of Raspberry…

Reading Time: 2 minutesArtists are understandably less than thrilled that AI is producing facsimiles of their work without giving them credit, or payment. For coders: AI changes everything. It can help you write, explain, understand, and improve the quality of code, and increase productivity by enhancing performance. It’s versatile in all programming languages and can…

Reading Time: 3 minutesA great framework The Backpack Cyberdeck was inspired by Davide’s need to move his experiments easily without setup breakdowns – he works in the metalworking industry, and reasoned that a custom-designed frame that fits inside a commercially available backpack would come in mighty useful for other people as well as himself. He…

Reading Time: 3 minutes“Growing up, I went to art school in Italy,” Sara says. “It felt like the right path for me to undertake, and through the years I pushed myself to try different things; I would find myself at events drawing on walls or floors, other times I would be at home testing lino…

Reading Time: 2 minutesGet coding with Raspberry Pi In this month’s edition of The MagPi we look at your coding options with Raspberry Pi: should you learn Python, Node.JS, or Go? And which IDE is best? PJ Evans has you covered with this in-depth guide to coding. Raspberry Pi 5 & Pico Raspberry Pi 5…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteWe were honoured to find out that a year long subscription to The MagPi is part of the Raspberry Jam bundle sent out to event organisers over the next couple of months, and thought we’d give our readers a chance to win a version of the bundle with a Raspberry Pi…

Reading Time: 2 minutesAn upgrade over the HMI3010 models, the HMI3020 adds RS232 and RS485 interfaces, as well as 3.5mm headphone and mic jacks. The key addition, however, is an M.2 socket. To access it, you’ll need to unscrew Raspberry Pi 5 and the case from the rear of the unit, then you can use…

Reading Time: 2 minutesSpecial custom gift GitHub’s Martin Woodward made a dedicated repo to help conference attendees learn how to hack their badges. Lo and behold, in it he confirms that the hackable conference badges are indeed a custom version of the Badger 2040 that Pimoroni made especially for GitHub. An RP2040 is running MicroPython…

Reading Time: 2 minutesPeter Misenko (Bobricius to his friends on GitHub, and YouTube, is the brain behind the original design for PicoZX, and PicoZX Handheld – the Raspberry Pi Pico-based Spectrum emulator that inspired Ken. Peter’s short and snappy demo video explains the project, but Ken’s longer build video, goes into more detail on how…

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis month we have the hotly anticipated Argon ONE V3 M.2 NVMe PCIe Case. Hopes are high for this one and we can tell you it hits home runs all the way. Redesigned for Raspberry Pi 5 this board combines the features of the Argon ONE V2 with the – previously separate…

Reading Time: 2 minutesButton management Every button on SNES XL controller has its own custom PCB, created using PCBWay an online service for producing PCB prototypes. Each board is shown fully working by Arnov on YouTube. Tactile switches on the custom boards are positioned just below the 3D-printed buttons, such that pressing a button toggles…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe right tools Ivan values Raspberry P’s modularity which allows him to create unique devices and has previously used various models including Compute Module 4 in his Compute Blade, an energy-efficient alternative to a rack-mounted server. He praises the “relatively cheap minicomputer with a huge community, which greatly lowers the threshold of…

Reading Time: 3 minutesBefore attaching the NVMe Base to the underside of Raspberry Pi 5 using the supplied standoff kit – demonstrated in Pimoroni’s installation video – you’ll want to insert your NVMe SSD stick into the Base’s M.2 key slot. The board is long enough to accommodate 2280 size SSDs, and has mounting holes…

Reading Time: 3 minutesRaspberry Pi Troubleshooting Guide 2024 Raspberry Pi star PJ Evans wants to sit you down, hand you a tissue and ask how he can help. This month’s cover feature is jam-packed with advice. From power supply issues to video errors, audio problems, networking, and more.  #MonthOfMaking 2024 Every March we enter #MonthOfMaking,…

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 minutes8BitDos latest offering (£79/$100) bucks this trend. A pair of beautiful wireless mechanical keyboards with colour schemes based on the original NES and Famicom, the most noticeable thing about them is an included pair of gigantic ‘super buttons’, arcade-esque add-ons that plug into the keyboard and can be programmed to run certain…

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is your history with making? I’ve always enjoyed building things – I had a big chest of LEGO as a kid, and so did my wife, and now we’ve only expanded it as our children got into model building too! I’ve been going to BarCamps and hackathons since 2007 and have loved…

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe enclosure is provided with instructions. These are straightforward, although we will confess to some confusion with wiring in the fan cable. It took four attempts before the ‘ah ha!’ moment when we realised what was intended. The instructions could cover this better. The rest of the installation was painless and thermal…

Reading Time: 2 minutesNo one really uses MS-DOS any more, but the modern, open-source FreeDOS ships with every copy of DOSBox, and you’ve quite probably used that. Most modern DOS developers use DOSBox and its forks for testing, so they can rapidly spot bugs and iterate solutions. The year 2023 in DOS also saw the release of…