Taron Foxworth over at Losant has done a great, short tutorial on preparing a Pi Zero W (or any Raspberry Pi with wifi capability, be it built-in or dongle, for that matter) for wifi connectivity and enabling ssh headlessly. This means…
Tejas Ozarkar has fashioned this stylish music player from a Raspberry Pi, some perfboard, some sensors and a bit of wiring. The circuit he’s built allows you to increase and decrease the volume (by raising/lowering your hand above an ultrasonic…
On Thursday, there was much excitement when The MagPi issue 57 was released to the public. The issue came bundled with a Google AIY Projects Voice Kit, including a Voice HAT, a microphone add-on board, a big arcade button, a speaker…
Issue 57 of The MagPi is with us, and what a bumper issue it is. It comes with the hardware for a Google-powered artificial intelligence/voice recogniser project, or AIY Project. Here’s the MagPi’s description of the contents: Inside the…
Raspberry Pi has announced that this week they will pass the 250k sales mark for the Raspberry Pi Zero W. Considering that it was only launched 9 weeks ago, this is astounding. They have also announced that they have opened…
Technology and innovation group PA Consulting run an annual Raspberry Pi competition for schools teams in which they are given a subject and told to go away and invent something. This year’s challenge was “to produce innovations that will improve the lives…
Ben Nuttall, Raspberry Pi community manager, has just posted on the Raspberry Pi blog about a new set of resources for Jam organisers. The best part of it is a new Jam Guidebook which tells you everything you need to know about…
Pickles is one lucky dog. Not only does he have two owners who dote on him (and miss him when they’re not there!), one of those owners, Eric Page, decided to build a Raspberry Pi-controlled treat dispenser. The idea is…
There’s a new operating system on the block and it’s based on the open-source ChromiumOS, familiar to all users of Chromebooks. Based on Google’s popular browser, ChromiumOS has been ported to the Raspberry Pi as FlintOS. There is a downloadable…
Music artist otem rellik (Toby Hendricks) has built an amazing musical instrument. It is a music samples looper that he created to replace his iPad for live performances. It features a Raspberry Pi 3 running Pure Data and a Teensy 3.6 for…