Articles by Lucy Hattersley

Robot Pac-Man with Raspberry Pi

When video games began to flourish in the seventies and eighties, 15-year-old Emanuele Coletta had not even been born. But when he and his pals caught up with the titles they had missed thanks to their parents’ collective love of retro gaming, they were soon champing at the bit to produce something of their own. […]

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Media Player Projects in The MagPi 66

The Raspberry Pi is the most versatile computer in existence. Thanks to its low cost, small size, and those handy GPIO pins, you can turn it into just about anything. But you’ve got to start somewhere. And many Raspberry Pi owners start out with a media centre project. So this month we've got some of […]

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Win! Media Centre Kits

We’ve teamed up with The Pi Hut to offer these great Media Centre Kits. The Pi Hut’s supercharged Raspberry Pi 3 Media Centre kit includes everything you need to get going right out of the box! 10 lucky winners will win these kits. You have six chances to enter! Click on the options below. Click […]

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BitScope: 3000-core Raspberry Pi cluster computer

Working with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, BitScope has created a Raspberry Pi Cluster of 750 Raspberry Pi 3s in a single box. Admittedly, that box is a 35U rack server case, but the computing density is “five to ten times more dense than anything before” according to BitScope CEO Bruce Tulloch. See also: Benchmarking a […]

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ALio Proto Board: dual-layer prototyping board

The ALio Proto Board recently hit its Crowd Supply target, and with a pad layout that can accommodate chips (ICs) it should be useful board to get complex builds running quickly. There are variants compatible with Arduino and USB ports. ALio Lead Engineer (and AERD CEO) Arief Adha tells us, “Currently we are on production […]

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AIY Projects: Vision Kit announced – build your own intelligent camera

Google AIY Projects has announced its Vision Kit, a smart camera kit you can build using a Pi Zero W, Pi Camera Module, and a powerful AI board called the ‘Vision Bonnet’

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