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Reading Time: 3 minutes“It was a small arcade and my friend and I had so much fun with a game like this, I just knew I wanted to have one for our parties,” he says. In his case, the ‘moles’ he was bashing were a set of LED lights and Thomas reckoned it would be…

Reading Time: 2 minutesSchool meant Casio watches and LED displays; sometimes built into pleasingly flexible, twangable rulers; sometimes embedded into the shaft of a pen. Resetting the time and date was the ideal excuse to linger in a classroom while chatting to (aka flirting with) nerdy, but nice, schoolmates. Almost without fail, an overlooked friend…

Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter learning about the different and weird things dogs have been trained to identify by smell at the airport, Luis asked the question of whether he could do something similar with low-cost gas sensors. “The purpose of the project is to show that low-cost sensors can be reliable in detecting odours and…

Reading Time: 3 minutesGuyrandy Jean-Gilles is a musical maker who took Raspberry Pi Pico and created something rather special. “The goal of the project was to make a low-cost, automatic guitar tuner,” he tells us. “I’d been meaning to do a project with Pico and there are few development boards as cheap and well-documented.” Pico…

Reading Time: 3 minutesContaining a Raspberry Pi 4, TonyPi (£380 / $519) comes preassembled (aside from the connectable head), so the fun here is all about controlling him. He’s a solidly built fella, with angular joints and broad lower arms and hands primed for scooping up coloured balls on command. We rather liked his all-white…

Reading Time: 3 minutesTeam leader Arijit Das explains that SPY-DER is so-named because of its ability to walk like an arachnopod – much to the consternation of some observers. The robot’s main purpose is for live video surveillance, streaming footage that can be viewed remotely via a dedicated web browser. SPY-DER can be controlled in…

Reading Time: 3 minutesRaspberry Pi Zero 2 W packs far more power into the same space. The new quad-core 1GHz CPU is up to five times as fast as the original Zero and Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is compatible with all current Zero projects and kits. In this month’s edition of The MagPi: Complete…

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: 2 minutesThe PoE USB HUB HAT for Raspberry Pi is a double-decker board that features an Ethernet port and fully isolated SMPS (Switch Mode Power Supply) on the bottom board, with a second board stacked on top holding the three USB ports. Coming already assembled, the two boards are held together by hex…

Reading Time: 3 minutesEncouraged by the success of his first electronics project in which he revived and added capacity to the HDMI ports of his Onkyo audio receiver, Justin began to cast around for what to make next. “The versatility, affordability, and size of Raspberry Pi really made it a smart buy during a time…

Reading Time: 2 minutesLifting off the rear panel reveals the electronics and two female headers to mount your Raspberry Pi Pico (not included). First, however, you’ll need to flash Pico with the software. The online manual is confusing, as there’s no need to compile anything with terminal commands if using a Raspberry Pi: just drag…

Reading Time: < 1 minuteA YouTuber with a penchant for making, with an amazing Raspberry Pi-powered Game Boy Camera

Reading Time: 3 minutesTomasz Burzy is among those enthralled by NASA’s endeavour. “I became interested in robotics a while ago and love seeing the work of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Boston Dynamics,” he says. “The Mars rovers quickly became my favourite pieces of engineering and when I saw Perseverance, I wanted to build a…

Reading Time: 6 minutes01 Raspberry Pi hardware You’ll need a Raspberry Pi 4 for this project so that you can make the most out of your custom tablet, although you can use a Raspberry Pi 3B+, Raspberry Pi 400, and Compute Module 3 with emteria. Emteria also supports HDMI on Raspberry Pi so you can…

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt comes with one of three sets of key switch types depending on your preference: mechanical (clicky-clacky), linear (silent), and tactile (silent with some resistance). All versions have an LED in the switch which is fully programmable, and the keys are standard sized so you can easily swap them out for others…

Reading Time: 3 minutesFlour power Following the theft of a package from his porch earlier in the year, Ryder decided to take action. “It had never happened to me before and I was a little frustrated,” he recalls. “I’d been doing some image classification work at the time, and figured this would be a great…

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis, in turn, enabled me to take a combined Physics & Electronics degree at Newcastle upon Tyne Polytechnic. When I went for an interview, my first encounter with a strong Geordie accent did leave me wondering where the hell I was. The maths module had three lectures about programming in Fortran II,…

Reading Time: 4 minutesUnderstanding space has always interested Husni Almoubayyed, so he was attracted to the idea of something that can monitor gravitational effects “stretching and contracting space around us on a very tiny scale”. While there was no expectation of building their own LIGO device, not least because of the expense involved, Husni and…

Reading Time: 3 minutesRaspberry Pi Smart Gadgets This month we look at hacking home appliances, smart food and drink setups, super projects for pets, health & fitness gadgets and wearable tech. There’s a wealth of ideas for making fun Raspberry Pi gadgetry. Spook up your Raspberry Pi for Halloween  It’s the time of year to…

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Reading Time: 3 minutesHis solution? A desk that would rise automatically every hour or so, encouraging him to spend more time standing. “One of the most valuable takeaways from behavioural economics is the insight that you’re far, far more likely to do the ‘right’ thing when it’s also the easiest thing, or the default thing,”…

Reading Time: 3 minutesPick up your copy of The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook is available as a free digital download, or you can purchase a print edition from the Raspberry Pi Press store. Print copies can also be bought from The Raspberry Pi Store in the Grand Arcade, Shopping Centre,…