Mighty Projects – 1GB Computer in Raspberry Pi Official Magazine 164

It’s normal for computers to get faster and more powerful, but the new-ish Raspberry Pi 5 1GB is a step in the other direction: it has all the processing power and the same GPIO pins of its more costly siblings, but with only 1GB of RAM it’s at a price that’s friendlier on the wallet – so much so that you might as well buy two of them.

The Raspberry Pi 5 1GB is so capable that you can use it to generate AI images with Stable Diffusion. We’ve come a long way since those nightmarish scenes of Will Smith eating spaghetti…

Cyanotype photography is an old method of creating images using paper, chemicals, and light, and you can make the process easier with a little 3D printing. We’ll show you how!

We love to see people doing brilliant things with Raspberry Pi, and here’s a great example: a neural network using a Raspberry Pi 5 and an AI HAT+ to recognise images.

If AI is all too modern for you, why not turn back time, like Cher, and return to the days of the Amiga. This awesome-for-its-time machine had a graphical user interface, brilliant graphics, loads of games, and a crunchy sound chip that’s prized by electronic musicians to this day. Try it on your Raspberry Pi today!

We’ve another blast from the past in the form of this Raspberry Pi 500+, which has been given a makeover to evoke the nicotine beige hue of the BBC Micro. This classic machine launched the programming careers of virtually everyone who so much as looked at one in the 80s, and there’s more than a hint of its DNA in Raspberry Pi.

There’s all this, and more, in issue 164 – buy it here or subscribe to never miss an issue.