Raspberry Pi

How To Make A Magic 8-Ball With Raspberry Pi and Sense HAT

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Raspberry Pi Foundation released its Sense HAT add on back in 2015 and yet this board remains one of the best Raspberry Pi HATs, because it still packs a full scientific platform and an 8×8 RGB LED matrix for a little fun in your Raspberry Pi projects. The… Read more

Dual Raspberry Pi Device is a Cyberdeck for Network Security

We love Raspberry Pi cyberdecks, including all of the fun ways the community has contained our favorite SBC over the years and this project from Michael Torino joins our list of favorites. Torino began developing the Portable Threat & Security Device (PTSD for short) to keep busy during the early lockdowns of 2020. This project… Read more

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Powers 4K Digital Signage

Home News (Image credit: NEC/Sharp) Using a Raspberry Pi for digital signage is nothing new. The low cost and HD video output mean they are right at home powering the sort of digital signage that’s becoming more common around airports and even roadside advertising hoardings. The MPi4 NEC Media from Sharp NEC Display Solutions, spotted… Read more

Developer Finds 8 Extra GPIO Pins on Raspberry Pi 4

Home News (Image credit: Jwothke) The Raspberry Pi wouldn’t be the board we love without its ever-versatile GPIO pins. These little connectors make it possible to control a wide range of hardware and devices but what do you do when they’re all occupied? Or maybe you want to use a HAT, because we all know… Read more

How To Use CircuitPython on a Raspberry Pi

CircuitPython is a programming language designed to simplify experimenting with low cost boards, typically microcontroller boards made by Adafruit. CircuitPython can also be used on the Raspberry Pi and via two projects we introduce how to use CircuitPython with the Raspberry Pi. The first project is the humble LED, controlling how to blink an LED… Read more

Raspberry Pi UPS PCB Keeps Your Pi Project Juiced

Home News (Image credit: Sourav Gupta) Finding the best way to power your Raspberry Pi project is always a challenge in itself, but ensuring redundancy is an entirely different challenge. Thankfully, this Raspberry Pi UPS project from Sourav Gupta at Circuit Digest is ready to tackle the issue. There’s nothing more frustrating than corrupting an… Read more

Unofficial PS5 Remote Play Comes to Raspberry Pi

Home News (Image credit: Evoneg Tech) Being able to play your PlayStation 4 and 5 games all around your house via Remote Play streaming is a neat feature, but the small number of officially supported devices means you’re stuck with Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, or another PlayStation. Enterprising coders determined to get an open-source Remote… Read more

Inventive grandson builds Telegram messaging machine for 96-year-old grandmother

Making sure elders can keep in contact with children and grandchildren has never been more important in a time of global lockdown. That’s why Twitter user @mrcatacroquer, Manuel Lucio Dallo, built the Yayagram — a DIY project that makes sending and receiving voice and text messages over Telegram a physical process just like using an… Read more

Flip it Off: How to Build a Website Blocker Switch with Raspberry Pi

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) If you’re like me, you spend a little too much time on a few websites, particularly social media sites. Try as you might to avoid them, you find yourself unconsciously typing in Facebook, Reddit, or something else into your search bar. There are a ton of browser extensions, desktop… Read more

Stemma, Qwiic and Grove Connectors: Which is Right for You?

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Electronics is a world of protocols, technologies and connections. From the humble jumper wire, the most basic of connections where individual wires are used to connect the GPIO to a device, to specialist connectors often polarized or keyed for use with a specific interface. If you are new to… Read more

Pimoroni’s New Raspberry Pi Pico LiPo Board Takes Things Mobile

Home News (Image credit: Phil Howard, Pimoroni) Phil Howard from the dev team at Pimoroni shared a glimpse of a new Raspberry Pi Pico board, the Pico LiPo, on Twitter. This little board has the same RP2040 found on the Pico but with the addition of a Stemma QT/Qwiic connector. This addition makes it very… Read more

Ubuntu 21.04 ‘Hirsute Hippo’ Released For Desktops, Servers and Raspberry Pi

Home News (Image credit: Future) The latest Ubuntu release is upon us. Ubuntu 21.04 “Hirsute Hippo” sees many small updates that will be supported for the next nine months. This may not be an LTS (Long Term Support) release but it does offer a few hints as to the direction in which Ubuntu will be… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico Powered Keypad Has All the Shortcuts You Need

Home News (Image credit: Katie Dumont, Element14) Keyboard shortcuts should make life easier, not more complicated—that’s why we love Katie Dumont’s Raspberry Pi Pico Macro Keypad project! This custom-made Pico keypad not only stores macros but also helps you keep track of different keyboard shortcut profiles for multiple applications. The device was designed entirely from… Read more

Raspberry Pi Tricorder: The Next Generation

Home News (Image credit: Chris Barrett) What is it about Raspberry Pi and homebrew electronics projects that seems to attract the Star Trek fans? We couldn’t possibly say, but this awesome tricorder project from Chris “directive0” Barrett is the second we’ve seen this week, so there could be a whole universe of them out there…. Read more

Gaze Upon Your NFTs With This Raspberry Pi-Powered Gadget

Home News (Image credit: snarflakes) We’re not sure entirely how useful this will be, but for those of you with a plentiful NFT collection, a GitHub user called snarflakes has published instructions for creating an NFT viewer out of a Raspberry Pi Zero and a Pirate Audio pHAT from Pimoroni. (Image credit: snarflakes) The brains… Read more