• Coding Pang’s sprite spawning mechanic | Wireframe #10

    Rik Cross, Senior Learning Manager here at Raspberry Pi, shows you how to recreate the spawning of objects found in the balloon-bursting arcade gem Pang. Pang: bringing balloon-hating to the masses since 1989. Capcom’s Pang Programmed by...

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  • DIY Pi-Powered TV Recorder

    “If you are a Pi-addict like me, I’m sure you were extremely happy like I was, when was announced few months ago, the official Raspberry Pi TV HAT. At the same time, my ISP announced a new...

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  • Pi-powered pie-consumption pie chart

    Mike MacHenry built a project that’s pure pi(e) for Pi Day. Introducing: the Pie Pie Chart (powered by Pi). This is a simple little project, the sole purpose of which is to make a pie that outputs...

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  • Yoga training with YogAI and a Raspberry Pi smart mirror | The MagPi issue 80

    Running on a smart mirror, YogAI uses a database of postures, image recognition software, and the magic of mirrors to not only show users their current posture but to also teach them how to correct their posture...

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  • Build a security camera with Raspberry Pi and OpenCV

    Tired of opening the refrigerator only to find that your favourite snack is missing? Get video evidence of sneaky fridge thieves sent to your phone, with Adrian Rosebeck’s Raspberry Pi security camera project. Building a Raspberry Pi security...

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  • Build a Raspberry Pi robot buggy

    Need a project for the week? We’ve got one for you. Learn to build a Raspberry Pi robot buggy and control it via voice, smart device or homemade controller with our free online resources. Build your robot...

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  • Putting a Raspberry Pi Into the Official Pi Keyboard

    The Raspberry Pi Foundation has recently made available an official Raspberry Pi keyboard priced at just £15 and equipped with a 3x USB 2.0 type-A ports for connecting other peripherals and provides compatibility with all Raspberry Pi...

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  • The Raspberry Pi shop, one month in

    Five years ago, I spent my first day working at the original Pi Towers (Starbucks in Cambridge). Since then, we’ve developed a whole host of different products and services which our customers love, but there was always...

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  • The Junk Drum Machine

    I do not really have any spare time. (Toddler, job, very demanding cat, lots of LEGO to tidy up.) If I did, I like to imagine that I’d come up with something like this to do with...

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  • How to Fix Raspbian OS If Your Pi Doesn’t Work After Last Update

    The recent update to Raspbian OS caused machines to crash and to fail to boot. What happened is that raspi-copies-and-fills package, which implements optimized low-level memory functions for the ARM processor,  was updated on March 11th, and...

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  • LED Matrix Cylinder — a blinkenlights tube

    We see lots of addressable LED projects, but there was something weirdly charming and very pretty about this cylinder of squares. It’d make for a lovely interactive nightlight in a kids’ room, or for a grown-up lighting...

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  • Laser-engraved Raspberry Pi hologram

    Inspired by an old episode of Pimoroni’s Bilge Tank, and with easy access to the laser cutter at the Raspberry Pi Foundation office, I thought it would be fun to create a light-up multi-layered hologram using a...

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  • Angstrom: 12 Channels Into a Single LED Light

    The Angstrom Tuneable LED Light Source combines 12 channels into a single LED light and is powered via a 5V 60W supply, giving it plenty of room to power what’s onboard, and even more LEDs could theoretically...

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  • Headless Configuration for Your Raspberry Pi

    If you do not have any screen, keyboard, or mouse to control the Raspberry Pi, but you still need to do some wireless setup, there is a facility to enable wireless networking and SSH when creating an...

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  • Coding Space Invaders’ disintegrating shields | Wireframe #9

    They add strategy to a genre-defining shooter. Andrew Gillett lifts the lid on Space Invaders’ disintegrating shields. Released in 1978, Space Invaders introduced ideas so fundamental to video games that it’s hard to imagine a time before...

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  • Feel Free To Travel Around the World With Your Raspberry Pi Secure Travel Router

    Would you write your password on a piece of paper and stick it to your forehead? Probably not. Yet connecting to a public Wi-Fi network is almost as foolish. You might not have any choice, however, if...

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  • Win a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and signed case this Pi Day 2019

    Happy Pi Day, everyone! What is Pi Day, we hear you ask? Today, people who use the date format ‘month/day/year’ celebrate that the date forms the first three digits of Pi: 3.14! In celebration of Pi Day,...

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  • DIY Robotic Arm for Raspberry Pi Hits Kickstarter

    SB Components has gone to Kickstarter to launch an open source hardware and software PiArm robotic arm kit aimed at the DIY maker and education markets. Specifically created for children, makers and those interested in learning more...

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