How to play entrance music on your Raspberry Pi
Imagine walking through a doorway, and your entrance music begins playing. You’re a pro wrestler, or perhaps a character in a 1940’s hardboiled crime drama? Or the Queen, who no doubt gets to hear the national anthem on a regular basis. Ty and Gig Builds have a tonne of cool Raspberry Pi projects on their…
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Get outside with these Raspberry Pi summer projects
Summer is fast approaching – and that’s the perfect excuse to get building. Whether you want to spy on your local wildlife, upgrade your vegetable patch, or feed your fish when you’re off on a weekend break, Raspberry Pi and a handful of add-ons make a great starting point. The latest issue of The MagPi…
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Shred through Guitar Hero with a Raspberry Pi-powered robot
Level up your Guitar Hero gaming with Nick O’Hara’s Jon Bot Jovi Guitar Hero robot. While Nick admits this is an expensive project (around $1000 to build), it’s something that was so “ridiculous, hilarious, and awesome” he felt he just needed to do it. You’re halfway to shredding a Bon Jovi chorus perfectly on Guitar Hero…
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Recreate Exerion’s pseudo-3D landscape | Wireframe #51
Swoop over mountains in our homage to Jaleco’s shooter. Mark Vanstone has the code in the latest issue of Wireframe magazine, out now. Taking the shooting action of Galaxian from a few years earlier, Japanese developer Jaleco released Exerion in 1983. What helped Exerion stand out from other shoot-’em-ups of the period, though, was its…
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Nearly 15,000 young people ran their code on the ISS for Astro Pi 2020/21!
Our team here at the Raspberry Pi Foundation, in collaboration with ESA Education, is excited to announce the successful deployment of young people’s programs aboard the International Space Station (ISS) for the European Astro Pi Challenge 2020/21! Across both Astro Pi missions — Mission Zero and Mission Space Lab — 14,993 participants created an amazing…
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Raspberry Silicon update: RP2040 on sale now at $1
Back in January, we launched Raspberry Pi Pico. This was a new kind of product for us: our first microcontroller-class board, and the first to be built on RP2040, a chip designed here at Raspberry Pi. At the same time, we announced RP2040-based products from our friends at Adafruit, Arduino, Sparkfun, and Pimoroni. Today, we’re…
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Raspberry Pi Pico-controlled model railroad
The Orient Express. The Flying Scotsman. Ivor the Engine. All juggernauts of the rail community, but none powered by our microcontroller and all, thus, inferior in our eyes. Raspberry Pi Pico has been used in cooler and more interesting ways every day since its launch in January this year, but this is the first time…
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Calculate pi with a Raspberry Pi Spigot | The MagPi #106
Here’s an ingenious way of using a Raspberry Pi to calculate pi – and why not? Nicola King runs the numbers in the latest issue of The MagPi magazine. Pi is an irrational number, which means it can’t be expressed as the ratio of two integers. Since it has an infinite number of decimal places, calculating…
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Debugging embedded software with Raspberry Pi Pico
In this article from the latest issue of HackSpace magazine, Rob Miles takes a look at debugging. You’ll find what a debugger does and discover how to add hardware that can be used to tell us what our devices are really thinking. Bug origins Whenever your program doesn’t do what you want it to, you’ve…
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Hide a huge arcade machine in plain sight with Raspberry Pi
Problem: I really want an arcade machine at home, but I don’t have the space for it. Solution: Build Alexandre Chappel’s giant two-player machine, which is sleek and hidden in plain sight on your wall. Alexandre’s goal was to build something that looks like an ordinary piece of furniture, and that you’d have no idea…
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