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Reading Time: 3 minutesSerious fun with Electronics This month we get serious about electronics. Seriously fun that is. Discover how to wire up kit and components to Raspberry Pi using breadboards, wires and HATs (Hardware Attached on Top). Discover the incredible things you can make with Raspberry  Pi. Plus! Electronics expert Simon Monk has written…

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Reading Time: 3 minutesElectric eye The design is based around a two-eye concept by Will Cogley which Sean cut down to be a single eye, and have space for the camera module as well. “I then modelled (using Autodesk Inventor) an enclosure for the eye, Raspberry Pi, and the other electronics: including two speakers, amplifier,…

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Maker HAT Base is equipped with quite a bit more functionality, including on-board push-buttons, buzzer, and mini breadboard, plus a female breakout header. Base for electronics The sticky-back mini breadboard fits into a space in the middle of the board. Note that if you’re using a HAT, it will cover the…

Reading Time: 3 minutesMary and Mark’s previous Raspberry Pi projects included a weather station and an all-sky camera which they used with an analogue meteor camera, and for which they adapted code to display findings on their website (see github.com/markmac99). Expense and maintenance issues with this setup meant they were only too happy to get…

Reading Time: 3 minutes“When I was a kid, I’d take apart anything”, Alex says about her maker history. “Keyboards, dolls, and so on. I was raised by many people with their own creative endeavours: my bio-dad showed me how to solder, my foster parents taught me to crochet, and my adoptive parents made amazing Halloween…

Reading Time: 3 minutesRodrigo has achieved this by creating a custom cartridge with a Raspberry Pi 3 computer tucked neatly inside. By installing and running the RetroPie emulator on the cart and engaging in a bit of jiggery pokery with the GBA’s Link Port, Rodrigo has been able to stream PSOne games on the Nintendo…

Reading Time: 3 minutes“Gro clocks serve to persuade children to stay in bed until a reasonable hour; in our house, the clocks we had been passed on were simply ignored,” Russell relates. Nonetheless, it was while on paternity leave that Russell began his first forays into Raspberry Pi project creation, using the Raspberry Pi Camera…

Reading Time: 3 minutes“My project Pneumonia Detection is a complete open-source system that uses a Raspberry Pi accompanied with a Raspberry Pi Camera to run a state-of-the-art embedded machine learning model,” Arijit explains. “[This] allows the device to scan chest X-rays and let the user know the amount of viral or bacterial pneumonia present in…

Reading Time: 3 minutesThis author fondly remembers her late grandmother’s Teasmade that sat proudly in a guest bedroom, waiting for the odd bed-and-breakfast guest that she occasionally took into her home. Although, we did always wonder the point of it when you still had to get up and go to the kitchen to get some…

Reading Time: 2 minutesEven the difficulty spikes of old-school arcade classics, designed to separate players from their money as efficiently as possible, become artful punctuation in the language of play, thanks to the save states and infinite credits of an emulator-based arcade cabinet. With greater access to development tools, approachable languages, and supportive communities, game…

Reading Time: 3 minutesPractical Programming As we get into 2022 it’s time to rediscover a love of code. Learning to program is fun for its own sake, and we think it’s the best way to improve your mind. Take code to the next level by putting it to use in a practical way. Practical Programming…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteLearn Practical Programming in the latest edition of The MagPi magazine and start making apps, games and devices. The lead feature in this month’s magazine explains Raspberry Pi OS’s coding tools and environment, details the pros and cons of each of the major languages, what the basic aspects of code are…

Reading Time: 3 minutesIt’s easy to install Raspberry Pi OS onto a microSD card using the Raspberry Pi Imager tool – download it on another computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) from magpi.cc/imager. Upon inserting the microSD card with the OS on it into your Raspberry Pi’s slot and powering up, it will first expand the…

Reading Time: 2 minutesMicropolis magpi.cc/micropolis Created by the SimHacker team, this free and open-source game is based on the original SimCity. For those unaware of it, it’s a simulation game which allows you to plan out and build a city while also facing any consequences your actions might result in. And, sometimes, giant monsters. How…

Reading Time: 3 minutesPicade Arcade kit This mini arcade cabinet is a wonderful kit that allows you to create a high-quality retro games console, with a nice stick and buttons which can be upgraded in the future if you wish. £225 / $249   Raspberry Pi 400 Personal Computer Kit All-in-one Raspberry Pi A box…

Reading Time: 3 minutesLaunched in 1982 and remaining in use for exactly 30 years, it was far ahead of its time. Anyone who wanted a terminal to connect to Minitel could get one for free from what became France Télécom, and this led to 9 million sets being installed in homes by 1999. But since…

Reading Time: 2 minutesDoom (1993) A game so good, it defined a genre for years. Seriously – FPS games used to be called Doom-clones. As the space marine Doom Guy, you have to fight off the forces of hell with a large variety of guns and a rocking soundtrack. The source code was released by…

Reading Time: 3 minutes“I became a member of the Raspberry Pi community from the launch of the first Raspberry Pi,” Stewart tells us. “I couldn’t wait to get my hands on one. Being a member of the community has opened new doors for me; it’s given me an opportunity to make projects which were previously…

Reading Time: 3 minutesBennet is lucky enough to have a job that involves imagination, invention, and problem-solving. An engineer and professor of robotics, his role involves work developing mapping and camera-based assistance programs. In his free time, he focuses on building projects that spark his curiosity. “Raspberry Pi is a perfect platform for such projects…

Reading Time: 3 minutesFor this project’s requirements, a Raspberry Pi Zero became the obvious choice for Thinus. “There are numerous commercial environment loggers on the market to monitor cargo, but the client also wanted to have a visual record of the whole sea voyage. The requirements for the logger system were: to be powered by…

Reading Time: 2 minutesVirtualising baked goods While something like this could be in some way achieved in Minecraft Raspberry Pi Edition, that was not why a Raspberry Pi was used. “Raspberry Pi provided an easy way to interface with the analogue-to-digital converters needed to read the wind turbine voltages,” Stephen says. “Along with sufficient computing…