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Reading Time: 3 minutesOnce people had recovered from the shock of seeing both a power button and a real-time clock on a Raspberry Pi, one of the most commented-on features of the new platform was the small, vertical, 16-way FFC (Flat Flexible Cable) connector on the left-hand side of the board, which exposes a single-lane…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe front of Bullfrog is a smorgasbord of dials with instant appeal to anybody who loves tweaking and the feel of hands-on analogue technology. There are three main sections: VCO, VCF, and VCA/Delay (corresponding to the three elements of sound: pitch, timbre, and amplitude). To the right of this are envelope generators…

Reading Time: 2 minutesHis solution was to make use of persistence of vision (POV) – the brief retention of a visual impression on the eye’s retina that creates the illusion of a moving image in film and television. Shine a light While the general consensus was that POV displays require too much in the way of…

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis has taken a few weeks longer this time, simply due to the sheer amount that changed under the hood in Bookworm, but the bug-fix release is now ready and can be installed from today via Raspberry Pi Imager, or downloaded from the usual place on our website. Or, to upgrade an existing image, simply…

Reading Time: 3 minutesNext gen retro Smoothly emulate fifth- and sixth-generation consoles including Playstation, Nintendo Game Boy Advance and GameCube, Sega Dreamcast and more. What’s more, there’s a whole new homebrew scene to discover, with brand-new games being made for these classic consoles. Arts & Crafts with Raspberry Pi Technology and creativity are inclusive and…

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: 2 minutesThis book is packed with information on retro gaming. In particular, it covers how to retro game with Raspberry Pi 5 in a lot of detail. Learn to use all the major emulation systems, and recreate retro consoles up to the Dreamcast and Sony Playstation generations. It’s packed with homebrew software and…

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat are fractals? Fractals are shapes that contain complex detail however closely you look at them, or however far you zoom in. Often, they are self-similar: if you zoom in on the small-scale detail, you find it resembles the overall shape. Some of the most familiar forms that have fractal features are…

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s like a Rube Goldberg machine from Looney Tunes or Wallace and Gromit, and we think it also crosses the boundary into modern art too. Nick says he hates to throw away electronics, and likes to repurpose them if he can’t fix them, which has resulted in this interesting fix. What a…

Reading Time: 3 minutesBig ambitions Csaba says that CinePI was always intended to push the possibilities of Raspberry Pi as a video camera with features found in cinema cameras, but in an open-source device so developers could integrate it into their own designs. CinePI V2 can record 2K RAW Cinema DNG video at frame rates…

Reading Time: 2 minutes“The inspiration came from the need to address the challenges in traditional farming and leverage technology for efficient crop management,” Tanay explains. “It’s a forward-thinking approach to agriculture and my project was born out of a passion for sustainable agriculture. The aim was to explore innovative solutions, driven by a desire to…

Reading Time: 2 minutesYou can watch the ‘First Raspberry Pi 5 tablet’ build on YouTube. Tight fit The project began with disconnecting the fan wires from the GPIO on Raspberry Pi 5 and unscrewing the standoffs. The Ethernet and USB 3.0 cables inside the RasPad are quite short, so they were a little more stretched…

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat is an underwater ROV? If you’re not sure what an underwater ROV is, the short answer is: a Remotely Operated Vehicle you chuck in the sea. But if you’re our favourite kind of geek and wish to feast on a much longer answer, Blue Robotics has shared a short history and…

Reading Time: 3 minutesA sixth joint rotates the end of the head, to which you can attach various accessories using tiny LEGO connectors inserted into its grid of holes and those on the accessory, making them easy to fit and remove. A similar LEGO connection system is used on the bottom of the robot to…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe two Toms continue to work together and are both members of Sheffield-based VolcanoTech. They aim to get more instruments onto volcanoes and acquire unprecedented long-term datasets that contribute to volcano research and monitoring. Designing and constructing low-cost scientific instrumentation is crucial for developing countries, where funding for equipment can be quite…

Reading Time: 3 minutesStart your Raspberry Pi adventure We may be a little heavy-handed on the Dungeons & Dragons metaphor this month. This guide to beginning your Raspberry Pi is packed with information, hints, and things to discover with your favourite computer. It’s the perfect guidebook for Raspberry Pi newcomers.  Raspberry Pi Beginner Projects We…

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 minutesFor us landlubbers, tides aren’t always something we have to think about, although Levi was familiar with the tide clocks where he grew up. Not being able to find one for his new Californian home, Levi decided to make his own: “It displays current tide height in feet, predicted hours until next…

Reading Time: 3 minutesHe had a number of Raspberry Pis at home and built a solar-powered watering system using Raspberry Pi A+ back in 2015. He says the low-powered footprint paired with the significant compute capabilities of Raspberry Pi 4 prompted him to explore its machine learning potential at home. Inaudible alarm bells Having moved house in…

Reading Time: 3 minutesPower is connected using Pico W’s micro USB port – as usual, you can hook this up to a computer for programming in MicroPython or C/C++, or flashing Pico W with new firmware. Alternatively, PicoVision can be powered via two unpopulated pins. There’s also a breakout header for CPU and GPU debugging,…

Reading Time: 4 minutesWith an ongoing fascination with PalmOS – “it was the first mobile OS with any sort of success and it gave the world the term ‘smartphone” – Dmitry says he wanted to see if he could put the operating system on another device with minimal changes. He looked into emulating the hardware with…