The MagPi

The MagPi The official Raspberry Pi magazine, showcasing amazing projects from our community

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Shiloh Studios • Upgrading a professional music studio can be as easy as pie with Raspberry Pi. Rob Zwetsloot books a session

Building remote controllers

ClippyGPT • Clippy is back! And this time we're really glad to see and hear from Microsoft's iconic character, as David Crookes explains

Bringing Clippy to life

Doom on a LEGO brick • If you have an appreciation of both LEGO and 1990s video games, read on, Nicola King digs out her glasses to admire a minuscule make

Clamshell BlackBerry cyberdeck • Keeping things as compact as possible drove the design of this hinged Raspberry Pi 4-based tiny computer, discovers Rosie Hattersley

Cyberdeck style-up

Greening the Spark • How does green energy work? One maker decided to create an interactive museum piece to teach people. Rob Zwetsloot investigates

Bugg.xyz acoustic monitoring • Soundscapes can provide a valuable insight into the health of a habitat. A Raspberry Pi can help conservationists listen in, explains Rosie Hattersley

Get bugging

Freight Farms • Raspberry Pi 4-powered vertical hydroponic farms let customers grow and monitor fresh produce anywhere.

DIY HOME AUTOMATION WITH RASPBERRY PI • Revolutionise your abode with Raspberry Pi: affordable, customisable automation for your house and home!

Getting Started with Home Assistant • Take control of your home, and your privacy, with this amazing home automation tool for Raspberry Pi

Cool Home Automation Ideas • Looking for inspiration for your home automation project? Here are some incredible ideas!

Introducing MQTT • Using a message broker system makes building your home automation system easier and more flexible. Here’s how it works

Make a smart garage door

Part 01 Build your own GPT Chatbot • Use Python and OpenAI’s API to talk to a GPT-3.5 powered chatbot on your Raspberry Pi

Part 03 Raspberry Pi Pico inputs and outputs • Create a buzzer game whilst learning about how to use inputs and outputs on Raspberry Pi Pico

Create a Bluetooth music visualiser • Use a Pico W-powered LED matrix display as a Bluetooth speaker with real-time visual effects

Part 01 Camera Module: Getting Started • Getting to know Raspberry Pi Camera Module options, setting up, and testing a camera with Raspberry Pi

RFID spells fun • Make a fun card-matching game using RFID readers and a Pimoroni Pico LiPo

DATA LOADING

SERIAL PERIPHERAL INTERFACE

BEEP BOOP

STICK HERE

Get fit with Raspberry Pi • Hack yourself together some superior smart fitness devices

Fitness basics • What to consider before exercising

Exercise bike mod • Breathe new life into that old exercise bike

HIIT Workout Trainer • Data analytics for your fitness

Pi Fighter • Here comes a new challenger

DIY smart scales • An encouraging weight tracker for those who need it

Compute Blade • Putting Raspberry Pi Compute Module onto a blade for a low-cost and energy-efficient alternative to a rack-based server. Lucy Hattersley weighs up the benefits

PicoBricks Base Kit • This neat educational electronics kit eliminates cable clutter and soldering.

The bricks • The PicoBricks kit features ten electronics modules that can used in situ or snapped off

10 Amazing: Browsers • The best ways to surf the web on Raspberry Pi

Learn: Sense HAT • This sensor-packed board helps you explore the world, says Rosie Hattersley

Projects • Movement and LED-based projects to try for yourself

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