Schlagwort: raspi

  • Summer time

    Summer time

    Reading Time: 2 minutesI’ve never had any real melancholy for summer ending – aside from, I suppose, having to go back to school when I was a kid – but while reading the game’s text I think I came close to understanding why people do. I do like summer though; after months of cold and…

  • The Clubs Conference is coming back

    The Clubs Conference is coming back

    Reading Time: 3 minutesFollowing the huge success of last year’s Clubs Conference, we are delighted to announce that we will be hosting the second-ever Clubs Conference on Saturday 30 November and Sunday 1 December 2024 in Cambridge, UK. The event will be a weekend of learning and connecting for volunteers and educators involved in Code…

  • Build a Raspberry Pi 5 media player in The MagPi magazine issue #142

    Build a Raspberry Pi 5 media player in The MagPi magazine issue #142

    Reading Time: 3 minutesBuild a Raspberry Pi 5 Media Player Free your films, videos, and music with our ultimate SSD-powered Raspberry Pi media player. You get complete control over your movies, the ability to stream from all the big players, and access obscure services like public domain films and homebrew games. It’s a complete winner…

  • Win! 1 of 10 M.2 HAT+

    Win! 1 of 10 M.2 HAT+

    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…

  • What would an IPO mean for the Raspberry Pi Foundation?

    What would an IPO mean for the Raspberry Pi Foundation?

    Reading Time: 7 minutesOn 22 May 2024, we announced that we are intending to list the Foundation’s commercial subsidiary, Raspberry Pi Ltd, on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange. This is called an Initial Public Offering (IPO).  The IPO process is — quite rightly — highly regulated, and information about the company and…

  • CDP Studio: Control a robot arm

    CDP Studio: Control a robot arm

    Reading Time: 6 minutes01 Install the software On your PC, visit cdpstudio.com/getstarted and download the free non-commercial version for Windows or Linux. During installation, select the ‘ARMv8 64-bit (Debian 11)’ component under CDP Studio 4.12, along with the one already ticked for your host PC. You will then be able to deploy projects to the…

  • Raspberry Pi 5 Cases – Group Test

    Raspberry Pi 5 Cases – Group Test

    Reading Time: 6 minutesOfficial Raspberry Pi 5 Case Raspberry Pi £10 / $10 Coming in red/white or black, the official case comprises three plastic sections that snap-fit together, so assembly is a cinch. The middle section includes a clear insert with a fan that connects to Raspberry Pi 5’s Fan port. A small SoC heatsink…

  • Transcription and speech synthesis

    Transcription and speech synthesis

    Reading Time: 3 minutesSpeech Note transcription $ sudo apt install flatpak $ flatpak remote-add –if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo Now reboot Raspberry Pi, then open a terminal and type: $ flatpak install speechnote Say “yes” to confirm that you wish to use the suggested ref, that you wish to install it, and that you wish to proceed…

  • Introducing classroom management to the Code Editor

    Introducing classroom management to the Code Editor

    Reading Time: 4 minutesI’m excited to announce that we’re developing a new set of Code Editor features to help school teachers run text-based coding lessons with their students. New Code Editor features for teaching Last year we released our free Code Editor and made it available as an open source project. Right now we’re developing…

  • AI projects spotlight

    AI projects spotlight

    Reading Time: 3 minutesAdafruit Braincraft HAT Built for Raspberry Pi 4, Adafruit’s Braincraft HAT is a pretty comprehensive kit for machine learning. It includes a 1.54-inch 240×240 TFT screen as a display, a joystick to navigate options you might wish to display on it, a cooling fan, three controllable LEDs, plus speaker, headphone and microphone…

  • Pico Throttle

    Pico Throttle

    Reading Time: < 1 minute“I’ve often had the occasional flight on my grandad’s copy of Flight Simulator X when I visit him, but I purchased X-Plane 12 after Christmas, so I’ve been using it regularly for about three months.” Leo tells us about what inspired him. “[The throttle is] reasonably rigid. There’s some flex in…

  • 10 amazing: robot projects

    10 amazing: robot projects

    Reading Time: 3 minutesBurgerBot Inedible round robot This Pico-powered robot is small and compact, and a great base for expanding and building bigger and more complex robots magpi.cc/burgerbot PicoTico Tic-tac-toe-bot Would you like to play a game of tic-tac-toe? This robot will play with you, but unlike WOPR (from 1983’s WarGames) it’s a bit more…

  • Gaining skills and confidence: The impact of Code Club and CoderDojo

    Gaining skills and confidence: The impact of Code Club and CoderDojo

    Reading Time: 4 minutesThrough Code Club and CoderDojo we support the world’s largest network of free informal computing clubs for young people. Code Club is a global network of after-school coding clubs for learners aged 9 to 13, where educators and other volunteers help young people learn about coding and digital making CoderDojo is a…

  • Office space

    Office space

    Reading Time: 2 minutesThis has caused me a little bit of a quandary though. My desk in the office is my home away from home and I want to make it feel comfy and welcoming when I visit. However, I’m not there that often, so I can’t bring in stuff I need at home, where…

  • Retro printer

    Retro printer

    Reading Time: 4 minutes“I was working at Heathrow Airport developing controls software for a baggage handling line in 1999 when we decided it would be useful to attach a dot matrix printer to keep track of errors and how the code was treating each piece of luggage passing through the system,” he explains. “The choices…

  • Meet André Costa: the brains behind rpilocator

    Meet André Costa: the brains behind rpilocator

    Reading Time: 3 minutesThe service we now know as rpilocator started off as cm4locator, with André coding it during a couple of days off. Initially it was private, and within a couple of days it had helped him locate – and buy – a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. Surprised at how easy it was,…

  • An update from the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre

    An update from the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre

    Reading Time: 7 minutesIt’s been nearly two years since the launch of the Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre. Today, the Centre’s Director Dr Sue Sentance shares an update about the Centre’s work. The Raspberry Pi Computing Education Research Centre (RPCERC) is unique for two reasons: we are a joint initiative between the University of…

  • Home Assistant Yellow review

    Home Assistant Yellow review

    Reading Time: 2 minutesSetting up the device is very simple, although depends slightly on the version you get. The kit that comes with a Compute Module 4 already installed is basically ready to go, just requiring you to get it set up for your network and IoT add-ons. If you’re adding the Compute Module, you…

  • Teaching a generation of AI innovators in Malaysia with Experience AI

    Teaching a generation of AI innovators in Malaysia with Experience AI

    Reading Time: 4 minutesToday’s blog is from Aimy Lee, Chief Operating Officer at Penang Science Cluster, part of our global partner network for Experience AI. Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the world at an incredible pace, and at Penang Science Cluster, we are determined to be at the forefront of this fast-changing landscape. The Malaysian…

  • PiDP-10

    PiDP-10

    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…

  • Get young people making interactive websites with JavaScript and our ‘More web’ path

    Get young people making interactive websites with JavaScript and our ‘More web’ path

    Reading Time: 5 minutesModern web design has turned websites from static and boring walls of information into ways of providing fun and engaging experiences to the user. Our new ‘More web’ project path shows young creators how to add interaction and animation to a webpage through JavaScript code. Why learn JavaScript? As of 2024, JavaScript…

  • Understand artificial intelligence in The MagPi magazine issue #141

    Understand artificial intelligence in The MagPi magazine issue #141

    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…