USA magazine subscriptions offer: 48% off standard prices

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday we’re launching a time-limited special offer on subscriptions to HackSpace magazine and The MagPi magazine for readers in the USA, saving you a whopping 48% compared to standard overseas subscriptions. We want to help as many people as possible get their hands on our fantastic publications. Starting today, you can subscribe to these magazines […]

Free Raspberry Pi 4 cooling stand with The MagPi 90!

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn issue 88 of The MagPi, we discovered that Raspberry Pi 4 can be kept cooler than usual if placed on its side. This gave us an idea, and thanks to many Top People, it resulted in the small, simple, and very practical Raspberry Pi 4 stand that you will find on the cover of […]

Free Raspberry Pi 4 cooling stand with The MagPi 90!

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn issue 88 of The MagPi, we discovered that Raspberry Pi 4 can be kept cooler than usual if placed on its side. This gave us an idea, and thanks to many Top People, it resulted in the small, simple, and very practical Raspberry Pi 4 stand that you will find on the cover of […]

Design 3D prints with a Raspberry Pi and BlocksCAD

Reading Time: 6 minutesBlocksCAD is a 3D model editor that you use in a web browser, and it runs on Raspberry Pi. You drag and drop code blocks to design 3D models that can be exported for 3D printing. In this project, you will use BlocksCAD to design a 3D pendant. The pendant uses a geometric pattern based […]

Hands-free Raspberry Pi Airdrum | The MagPi 89

Reading Time: 4 minutesWe’re always going to beat the drum for projects that seek to improve the lives of people with disabilities. That’s why we fell in love with the Airdrum, which was created to allow anyone, in particular people with disabilities, to play a musical instrument. The Airdrum – speaker and MIDI song demo This video demonstrates […]

New book: Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi

Reading Time: 2 minutesRaspberry Pi Press is delighted to announce the release of the latest addition to your bookshelf: Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi! Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://rpf.io/ytsub Help us reach a wider audience by translating our video content: http://rpf.io/yttranslate Buy a Raspberry Pi from one of our Approved Resellers: http://rpf.io/ytproducts […]

New book: Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi

Reading Time: 2 minutesRaspberry Pi Press is delighted to announce the release of the latest addition to your bookshelf: Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi! Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi Subscribe to our YouTube channel: http://rpf.io/ytsub Help us reach a wider audience by translating our video content: http://rpf.io/yttranslate Buy a Raspberry Pi from one of our Approved Resellers: http://rpf.io/ytproducts […]

Securely tailor your TV viewing with BBC Box and Raspberry Pi

Reading Time: 3 minutesThanks to BBC Box, you might be able to enjoy personalised services without giving up all your data. Sean McManus reports: One day, you could watch TV shows that are tailored to your interests, thanks to BBC Box. It pulls together personal data from different sources in a household device, and gives you control over […]

Securely tailor your TV viewing with BBC Box and Raspberry Pi

Reading Time: 3 minutesThanks to BBC Box, you might be able to enjoy personalised services without giving up all your data. Sean McManus reports: One day, you could watch TV shows that are tailored to your interests, thanks to BBC Box. It pulls together personal data from different sources in a household device, and gives you control over […]

New book (with added computer): Get Started with Raspberry Pi

Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Raspberry Pi Press is really excited to announce the release of Get Started with Raspberry Pi. This isn’t just a book about a computer: it’s a book with a computer. Ideal for beginners, this official guide and starter kit contains everything you need to get started with Raspberry Pi. Inside you’ll find a Raspberry […]

Build the ultimate 4K home theatre PC using a Raspberry Pi 4 and Kodi

Reading Time: 4 minutesWe love Raspberry Pi for how it’s helping a new generation of children learn to code, how it’s resulted in an explosion of new makers of all ages, and how it’s really easy to turn any TV into a smart TV. While we always have a few Raspberry Pi computers at hand for making robots […]

Rob’s Raspberry Pi Dungeons and Dragons table

Reading Time: < 1 minuteRob made an interactive Dungeons and Dragons table using a Raspberry Pi and an old TV. He thought it best to remind me, just in case I had forgotten. I hadn’t forgotten. Honest. Here’s a photo of it. The table connects to Roll20 via Chromium, displaying the quest maps while the GM edits and reveals […]

Gamified boxing with Pi Fighter

Reading Time: 3 minutesGamifying boxing with a special punchbag that allows you to fight Luke Skywalker? Rob Zwetsloot starts a training montage to check it out. Not Rob Street Fighter Did you know that the original version of Street Fighter had a variant where you could punch the buttons to get Ryu to attack? The harder you smacked […]

Raspberry Pi 4: a full desktop replacement?

Reading Time: 5 minutesThe MagPi magazine puts Raspberry Pi 4 to the ultimate test as writer and all-round tech tinkerer PJ Evans uses it for a week as his desktop computer. When Raspberry Pi 4 was launched earlier in 2019, the significant improvements in processor speed, data throughput, and graphics handling lead to an interesting change of direction […]

Raspberry Pi summer projects with The MagPi magazine

Reading Time: < 1 minuteTake your Raspberry Pi outside for some fun outdoor making with The MagPi magazine’s summer projects feature, available to read now. Right now. Right this second. Go read it…but read the rest of this blog post first. Thanks. #analytics Digital making outdoors Sure, there may be a few obstacles in your way whenever you try […]

Build Demolition Man’s verbal morality ticketing machine

Reading Time: 7 minutesIn the 1993 action movie Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone stars as a 1990s cop transported to the near-future. Technology plays a central role in the film, often bemusing the lead character. In a memorable scene, he is repeatedly punished by a ticketing machine for using bad language (a violation of the verbal morality statute). In […]

IT’S SO HOT OVER HERE. WE’RE MELTING. SEND HELP.

Reading Time: 5 minutes[Today’s temperatures are set to reach a whopping 38ºC/101ºF degrees in the UK, and none of us know what to do with ourselves. This doesn’t happen here and we have nothing prepared: we live in a society devoid of air conditioning, and we’re are unable to comprehend weather conditions more friendly than a slight chill […]

IT’S SO HOT OVER HERE. WE’RE MELTING. SEND HELP.

Reading Time: 5 minutes[Today’s temperatures are set to reach a whopping 38ºC/101ºF degrees in the UK, and none of us know what to do with ourselves. This doesn’t happen here and we have nothing prepared: we live in a society devoid of air conditioning, and we’re are unable to comprehend weather conditions more friendly than a slight chill […]

NASA, Raspberry Pi and a mini rover

Reading Time: 4 minutesNASA scientist Dr Jamie Molaro plans to conduct potentially ground-breaking research using a Raspberry Pi seismometer and a mini rover. Jamie has been working on a payload-loaded version of NASA’s Open Source Rover In the summer of 2018, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory built a mini planetary rover with the aim of letting students, […]

IoT community sprinkler system using Raspberry Pi | The MagPi issue 83

Reading Time: 4 minutesSaving water, several thousand lawns at a time: The MagPi magazine takes a look at the award-winning IoT sprinkler system of Coolest Projects USA participant Adarsh Ambati. At any Coolest Projects event, you’re bound to see incredible things built by young makers. At Coolest Projects USA, we had the chance to talk to Adarsh Ambati […]

Yuri 3 rover | The MagPi #82

Reading Time: 4 minutesIn honour of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, this year’s Pi Wars was space-themed. Visitors to the two-day event — held at the University of Cambridge in March — were lucky enough to witness a number of competitors and demonstration space-themed robots in action. Among the most impressive was the Yuri 3 […]

Make a retro console with RetroPie and a Raspberry Pi — part 2

Reading Time: 5 minutesHere’s part two of Lucy Hattersley’s wonderful retro games console tutorial. Part 1 of the tutorial lives here, for those of you who missed it. Choose the network locale RetroPie boots into EmulationStation, which is your starter interface. It’s currently displaying just the one option, RetroPie, which is used to set up the emulation options. […]