A Quick Intro to Python in Raspberry Pi Official Magazine 163
By Andrew Gregory. Posted
Short scripts, fast results: learn the useful bits first and cut through the fluff.
Do you want the convenience of artificial intelligence, without signing all of your data over to the business weirdos of Silicon Valley? Well now you can run your own chatbot GPT locally on Raspberry Pi. Keep your data safe from prying eyes by having it never leave your computer!
Readers of a certain age may remember Tamagotchi – little electronic pets that pit in your pocket, occasionally beeping so you’d remember to feed them. They were a forerunner to the constant distraction machines that many of us have in our pockets today, and as such it’s a blast from the past to discover the Cyber Pet Tumbler, a modern implemantation of a pocket pet built on a Raspberry Pi Pico.
There’s a very pleasing trend of building AI assistants into repurposed hardware, and here’s a brilliant example of the genre – the oDuckberry AI assistant, stuffed into the shell of a novelty alarm clock. It runs on Raspberry Pi 4, has coloured LEDs to indicate the device’s status, and the duck’s beak move when it talks to you. Truly a work of genius!
If you’re searching for inspiration for your next build, check out our roundup of Raspberry Pi Pico projects – there’s eveything in there, from an automated calendar display to music, gaming, drones, and more.
Most readers who know anything about the history of computing will recognise the Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. But there’s another, more obscure, 8-bit computer that was available from 1984 to 1990: the Amstrad CPC. Maker Stéphane Plantard has re-created this lost bit of computing nostalgia using (among other things) a Raspberry Pi Pico and a beautiful custom PCB.
All this and more – grab it here, in person at all good newsagents, or subscribe to never miss an issue.
Features Editor Andrew trawls the internet for Cool Stuff while keeping the magazine running smoothly.
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