Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Chessboard Project: Play With Friends Online

Home News (Image credit: Lewis, DIY Machines) Just because you’re stuck at home doesn’t mean you can’t play games with your friends—and I don’t just mean through Steam! Maker Lewis from DIY Machines has created a smart chessboard with the help of a Raspberry Pi. This board allows you to play both online or in… Read more

Raspberry Pi Detects Unseen Cosmic Rays from Space

Home News (Image credit: Cosmic Pi) The Raspberry Pi is a super flexible tool for the casual aerospace engineer. Don’t believe me? Check out this free and open-source cosmic ray detection project known as CosmicPi. It’s designed to run on our favorite SBC and, with the right hardware, it can reveal unseen particles as they’re… Read more

Red Robotics Pico 2 Pi Review: Use HATs with Raspberry Pi Pico

Our Verdict So simple to use and cheap to purchase, the Pico 2 Pi Adaptor is a complete no brainer purchase for your Pico projects. For + Low cost + Ease of use + Access to thousands of HATs Against – You will need to use the included reference card – Header pins too short… Read more

How To Get Wi-Fi, Internet on Raspberry Pi Pico

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Raspberry Pi Pico is a marvellous bit of kit, but it is missing one key feature, Wi-Fi! We first stumbled upon the idea of adding Wi-Fi to the Raspberry Pi Pico while reviewing the Cytron Maker Pi Pico, which provided an ESP-01 interface for an ESP8266 variant board…. Read more

Raspberry Pi Zero Emulates ’80s ZX Spectrum PC From Inside a Cassette Tape

Home News (Image credit: Jamhamster) Jamhamster is a maker with an affinity for retro hardware, and we’re right there with him! For this project, he managed to fit a Raspberry Pi Zero inside of a custom cassette tape to emulate an old ZX Spectrum computer. The cassette features artwork boasting “ZX Spectrum” in the title… Read more

LumiCube Is the Raspberry Pi Project to Light up Your Life

Home News (Image credit: Abstract Foundry) LumiCube from Abstract Foundry is the latest Kickstarter hoping to dress your Raspberry Pi in the finest RGB LEDs, but underneath the razzle dazzle there is quite a bit of tech for your money. Image 1 of 3 (Image credit: Abstract Foundry) Image 2 of 3 (Image credit: Abstract… Read more

Raspberry Pi Imager Now Comes With Advanced Options

Home News (Image credit: Future) Writing an operating system to a Raspberry Pi involves micro SD cards and a tool such as balenaEtcher. Around a year ago an official Raspberry Pi Imager tool was released, this tool offered a simple means to write an OS to a card and it came with a great choice… Read more

Raspberry Pi CM4 Handheld Project Resembles Pocket C.H.I.P.

Home News (Image credit: Diodes Delight) If you’re a fan of the Pocket C.H.I.P. Linux-based handheld, you’ll appreciate this new project from Diodes Delight featuring the Raspberry Pi CM4. Diodes Delight is run by the same Timon we featured on a December episode of Pi Cast, Toms Hardware’s very own Raspberry Pi-themed podcast. Even back… Read more

3D-Printed Housing for Raspberry Pi HQ Camera Adds Professional Touch

Home News (Image credit: eat-sleep-code) The Raspberry Pi HQ Camera module has appeared in some of the best Raspberry Pi projects we’ve seen, like this stellar astrophotography project. But this maker brings the HQ module into a professional environment with this custom, 3D-printed cinema-style housing project. It’s complete with a custom interface that also provides… Read more

Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect ‘Pi Silicon’ Adds Computer Vision

Home News (Image credit: Arduino) Raspberry Pi Pico board partners are slowly releasing their RP2040 ‘Pi Silicon’ based boards. So far, we have seen boards from Pimoroni and Adafruit, but hot on their heels is the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect. In a recent tweet, we see Arduino using this board in a computer vision carrier… Read more

Official Raspberry Pi Support Arrives For Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Many Raspberry Pis are pressed into service as home media devices. They are a natural fit given their price, power and size. But one facet of media consumption where the Raspberry Pi needed a little help was streaming content from services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu which use Widevine… Read more

Raspberry Pi Ham: A Waterproof SDR for Enthusiasts and Noobs

Home News (Image credit: Splash07s) The Raspberry Pi community is built upon a fellowship of makers who are always itching to find more ways to communicate and interact using their favorite SBC. One maker, known on Reddit as Splash07s, decided it was time to listen for a change and built a custom software-defined radio (SDR)… Read more

Custom Raspberry Pi Handheld Features Super-Wide Display

Home News (Image credit: Sulfuroid) All-in-one Raspberry Pi handhelds are really cool—some of the best Raspberry Pi projects we’ve come across are just simple, PC rigs with built-in keyboards. But this one, created by a maker known on Twitter as Sulfuroid, takes the cake and stretches wide across the plate. It has a small, tablet-like… Read more

Piper Make Is a Raspberry Pi Pico Drag and Drop Python Editor

Home News (Image credit: Future) It may not be the first block-based language for the Raspberry Pi Pico, but Piper Make definitely takes the crown of the best looking. Released yesterday, Piper Make is the latest project from Piper Learning, which previously created the Piper Computer Kit. Piper Make comes as a free online service… Read more

How to Build an Airplane Tracker with Raspberry Pi

Chances are that there are planes flying over your house right now. Using a Raspberry Pi, a device known as an ADS-B receiver, and a standard projector, we can create our very own “radar” that shows the real time location of these aircraft and, if we have a projector, we can project it on the… Read more