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Reading Time: 4 minutesMainframes were actually quite boring machines to work with. You created punch-cards, fed them in, waited, then a response was printed out. DEC’s PDP-10 was the first to be truly interactive. It was DEC’s decision in 1968 to provide a unit to MIT that really sealed its place in history. For the first time, a […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesRaspberry Pi AI Made Clear Our Raspberry Pi AI Made Clear feature demystifies artificial intelligence by showing you how to develop generative technologies using Raspberry Pi and open-source software. Create personal image diffusers, generate large language models, and assemble intelligent-acting robots, cameras, and speech assistants. All while keeping one eye on the ethics at play! […]

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 enthusiast goodness delivered directly […]

Reading Time: 3 minutesRaspberry Pi 5 and Thonny IDE The easiest way to program Raspberry Pi Pico is with MicroPython, a Python-compatible programming language developed to run on microcontrollers. With Pico connected to Raspberry Pi 5 via USB, you can use the Thonny IDE (integrated development environment) application to write MicroPython programs and run them on Pico. Packed […]

Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter working for various companies as a software engineer in Ottawa, and also working remotely with Arduino, he started looking for a new way to use his expertise with embedded and mobile devices. There’s not much better place than Arm for that, and when an acquaintance of his mentioned a position coming up, he jumped […]

Reading Time: < 1 minuteEvery Monday we ask the question: have you made something with a Raspberry Pi over the weekend? Every Monday, our followers send us amazing photos and videos of the things they’ve made. Here’s a selection of some of the awesome things we got sent this month. Remember to follow along at the hashtag #MagPiMonday!

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, but when Raspberry […]

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 Pi 5. Unlimited access […]

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 help translate code […]

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 says the idea […]

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 printing using a […]

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 is the fastest […]

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 Zero 2 W and […]

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 the M.2 slot […]

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 which throws text […]

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 he made his […]

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 – M.2 Expansion […]