Machine Learning made easy with Raspberry Pi, Adafruit and Microsoft

Reading Time: 3 minutesMachine learning can sound daunting even for experienced Raspberry Pi hobbyists, but Microsoft and Adafruit Industries are determined to make it easier for everyone to have a go. Microsoft’s Lobe tool takes the stress out of training machine learning models, and Adafruit have developed an entire kit around their BrainCraft HAT, featuring Raspberry Pi 4 […]

Drag-n-drop coding for Raspberry Pi Pico

Reading Time: 3 minutesIntroducing Piper Make: a Raspberry Pi Pico-friendly drag-n-drop coding tool that’s free for anyone to use. The ‘Digital View’ option displays a dynamic view of Raspberry Pi Pico showing GPIO states Edtech startup Piper, Inc. launched this brand new browser-based coding tool on #PiDay. If you already have a Raspberry Pi Pico, head to make.playpiper.com […]

Interactive origami art with Raspberry Pi

Reading Time: 2 minutesRoss Symons is an incredible origami artist who harnessed Raspberry Pi and Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap board to bring his traditional paper creations to life in an interactive installation piece. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUX7ya_oAgw?feature=oembed&w=500&h=375] Video by White On Rice Touchy-feely The Pi Cap is “[a]n easy-to-attach add-on board that brings capacitive sensing to your Raspberry Pi projects.” […]

Adafruit guest post: Machine learning add-ons for Raspberry Pi

Reading Time: 3 minutesHi folks, Ladyada here from Adafruit. The Raspberry Pi folks said we could do a guest post on our Adafruit BrainCraft HAT & Voice Bonnet, so here we go! Adafruit BrainCraft HAT for Raspberry Pi I’ve been engineering up a few Machine Learning devices that work with Raspberry Pi: BrainCraft HAT and the Voice Bonnet! […]

Raspberry Pi Christmas Shopping Guide 2020

Reading Time: 7 minutesThe most wonderful time of the year is approaching! “Most wonderful” meaning the time when you have to figure out what gift best expresses your level of affection for various individuals in your life. We’re here to take away some of that stress for you — provided your favourite individuals like Raspberry Pi, of course. […]

Vulkan update: merged to Mesa

Reading Time: 2 minutesToday we have another guest post from Igalia’s Iago Toral, who has spent the past year working on the Mesa graphic driver stack for Raspberry Pi 4. Four months ago we announced that work on the Vulkan effort for Raspberry Pi 4 (v3dv) was progressing well, and that we were moving the development to an […]

Website hosting on Raspberry Pi 4 with Mythic Beasts

Reading Time: 4 minutesHere’s Mythic Beast’s Pete Stevens to talk about how we run the Raspberry Pi website on Raspberry Pis, and how Mythic Beasts can run your site on Raspberry Pis too! Rent a Raspberry Pi In late 2016, Mythic Beasts launched a Raspberry Pi cloud, allowing you to rent a Raspberry Pi 3 as a service. […]

OpenVX API for Raspberry Pi

Reading Time: 3 minutesRaspberry Pi is excited to bring the Khronos OpenVX 1.3 API to our line of single-board computers. Here’s Kiriti Nagesh Gowda, AMD‘s MTS Software Development Engineer, to tell you more. OpenVX for computer vision OpenVX™ is an open, royalty-free API standard for cross-platform acceleration of computer vision applications developed by The Khronos Group. The Khronos […]

OctoPrint: a baby monitor for your 3D printer

Reading Time: 7 minutesIn issue 32 of HackSpace magazine, out now, we talk to Gina Häußge, creator of OctoPrint – it sits on a Raspberry pi and monitors your 3D printer. Gina Häußge, creator and maintainer of OctoPrint There’s something enchanting about watching a 3D printer lay down hot plastic. Seeing an object take shape before your eyes […]

Vulkan update: now with added source code

Reading Time: 4 minutesToday we have a guest post from Igalia’s Iago Toral, who has spent the past year working on the Mesa graphic driver stack for Raspberry Pi 4. It is almost five months since we announced the Vulkan effort for Raspberry Pi 4. It was great to see how many people were excited about this, and […]

Raspberry Pi–powered robot farmers

Reading Time: 3 minutesWe love seeing Raspberry Pi being used to push industry forward. Here’s an example of how our tiny computers are making an impact in agriculture.  Directed Machines is a small company on a mission to remove pollution and minimise human labour in land care. Their focus is to do more with less, so the affordable […]

Meet your new robotic best friend: the MiRo-E dog

Reading Time: 3 minutesWhen you’re learning a new language, it’s easier the younger you are. But how can we show very young students that learning to speak code is fun? Consequential Robotics has an answer…The MiRo-E is an ’emotionally engaging’ robot platform that was created on a custom PCB  and has since moved onto Raspberry Pi. The creators […]

Raspberry Pi puts the heart back in mid-noughties nostalgia tech

Reading Time: 2 minutesIs it still the Easter holidays? Can anyone tell? Does it matter, when we have nostalgic tech bunny pets to share with you? These little bunnies can now do much more than when they first appeared. But they’re still incredibly cute – just look at that little lopsided-ear thing they do. [embedded content] The original […]

How to set up OctoPrint on your Raspberry Pi

Reading Time: 8 minutesIf you own a 3D printer, you’ll likely have at least heard of OctoPrint from the ever benevolent 3D printing online community. It has the potential to transform your 3D printing workflow for the better, and it’s very easy to set up. This guide will take you through the setup process step by step, and […]

Raspberry Pi capacitive-touch musical Christmas tree

Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat, your Christmas tree ISN’T touch-enabled? Capacitive Touch Christmas Tree How To | Raspberry Pi | Bare Conductive Pi Cap Turn your Christmas tree into a capacitive touch-interactive musical instrument using a Raspberry Pi and a Bare Conductive Pi Cap. You’ll be rocking around the Christmas tree in no time! /* Bare Conductive */ Pi […]

Raspberry Pi Christmas Shopping Guide 2019

Reading Time: 7 minutesStuck for what to buy your friends and family this Christmas? Whether you’re looking to introduce someone to Raspberry Pi and coding, or trying to find the perfect gift for the tech-mad hobbyist in your life, our Christmas Shopping Guide 2019 will help you complete your shopping list. So, let’s get started… The good ol’ […]

Scratch 3 Desktop for Raspbian on Raspberry Pi

Reading Time: 4 minutesYou can now install and use Scratch 3 Desktop for Raspbian on your Raspberry Pi! Scratch 3 Scratch 3 was released in January this year, and since then we and the Scratch team have put lots of work into creating an offline version for Raspberry Pi. The new version of Scratch has a significantly improved […]

Google AIY Projects Kit vs Star Wars Porgs

Reading Time: 3 minutesHere at Pi Towers, we have a love/hate relationship with the Star Wars creatures known as Porgs. Love, because anything cute and annoying will instantly get our attention; hate, primarily because of this GIF: So when hackster.io tweeted about the following project, you can imagine the unfiltered excitement and fear with which I shared the link […]

We tried out Valve’s Steam Link on Raspberry Pi and…

Reading Time: 3 minutes… it worked well! tl;dr: really, really well. But if “it worked really well” isn’t enough of a reason for you to give Steam Link on Raspberry Pi a go, here’s the rest of today’s blog post… Steam Link on Raspberry Pi The internet (mainly Reddit) was all aflutter last week due to the release […]

The Raspberry Pi Christmas shopping list 2018

Reading Time: 5 minutesLooking for this year’s perfect something to put under the tree ‘from Santa’? Well, look no further than right here — it’s time for our traditional Christmas shopping list! Woohoo! Which Raspberry Pi? As you are no doubt aware, the Raspberry Pi comes in more than one variety. And if you’re planning to give a […]

Raspberry Pi vs a Raspberry Pi–powered escape room

Reading Time: 3 minutesA few Mondays ago, the Raspberry Pi North America team visited a very special, Raspberry Pi–powered Escape Room in San Francisco. Run by Palace Games, the Edison Escape Room is an immersive experience full of lights, sensors, and plenty of surprises. This is the team’s story of how they entered, explored, and ultimately escaped this […]

From inspiration to innovation: Hands-On Coding blocks

Reading Time: 5 minutesMarcos Navas is a Union City Technology Facilitator with Union City school district in New Jersey and an active member of the maker, STEM, and coding communities. He was part of the first cohort of Raspberry Pi Certified Educators in the United States. Recently, he completed a fellowship with IDEO’s Teachers Guild and launched Hands-on […]