Articles by Russell Barnes
Raspberry Pi Annual: Free book for subscribers to The MagPi
Holy GPIO! Will the evil Dr Bluescreen succeed with her villainous plan, or will The Founders rescue the children of Earth from a fate worse than Excel? Find out in the first ever Raspberry Pi Annual! This surprise Christmas present for subscribers of The MagPi is “packed with all the great word and picture puzzles […]
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Win! Pi PoE Switch HAT Kits
We've got a fantastic prize for our readers this month. The Pi POE Switch HAT kits enable you to power a Raspberry Pi directly from an Ethernet network connection. It's the ideal kit for setting up self-contained network enabled projects. This prize is courtesy of Pi Supply. Click here to learn more about the Pi […]
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Raspberry Pi AI teasmade on Channel 4 TV show
A Raspberry Pi teasmade was taken for a test run by speed junkie Guy Martin in Channel 4’s recent documentary, Guy Martin Versus the Robot Car. The Pi powered tea-making robot, ingeniously named R2‑Tea2, was designed and built by Huddersfield’s Running in the Halls (RITH), a design and development studio whose “primary focus is designing […]
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Connect Raspberry Pi to cellular data network
Ever wonder what your Raspberry Pi was thinking? This tutorial shows how you can ask your Pi questions no matter where it is in the world. Learn how to send questions through SMS to your Raspberry Pi and get witty answers back. You’ve probably connected your Pi to the internet through Ethernet or WiFi, but […]
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Smart Security Camera: CCTV with OpenCV face detection
There are plenty of home security cameras currently on the market, many allowing you to stream live footage over the internet and receive alerts whenever someone wanders past. But rather than buy one of those, two makers, Aaron Tainter and Davis Lau, spied an opportunity. Combining a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a Pi Camera Module, and […]
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3D Xmas Tree review
If you watched our video on the Pimoroni Unicorn HAT HD a little while back, or keep an eye on our Twitter feed, you’ll know that our features editor Rob was using the Unicorn HAT HD to count down to a forthcoming holiday. Now that’s been and gone, it’s time to replace it with something […]
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NASA robot artist draws shapes with Raspberry Pi
The NASA robot artists is a robotics arm project. A hand reaches out to a shiny gold box emblazoned with the NASA logo. At the press of a button, the connected robotic arm springs into life, lowering a blue Sharpie pen onto a paper pad to draw the circular outline of the famous logo, then […]
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Rapanui Clothing
When brothers Rob and Mart Drake-Knight struggled like mad to find a job in 2008, they could so easily have reached a point where they would have to sell the shirts off their backs. Luckily they decided to spend £200 setting up an environmental clothing company on the Isle of Wight instead, growing it from […]
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Easy retro gaming on a Raspberry Pi with Lakka and NOOBS
Whether you are nostalgic for the games of yesteryear or you’re simply dying to discover gaming’s rich history, all you ultimately need to get stuck in is a bunch of emulators and a stack of gaming ROMs. In the past, however, this has also entailed finding and downloading the BIOSes of various machines and a […]
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The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner’s book with Pi Zero W kit
We are incredibly excited to reveal The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner's book. This 116-page guide to computing with the Raspberry Pi includes all the following: A Pi Zero W computer The official case with three separate covers USB and HMDI adaptor cables 8GB Micro SD Card pre-loaded with the NOOBS operating system A 116-page Beginner’s […]
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Monster Joysticks Deluxe Arcade Controller Kit review
In issue 63 of The MagPi we took you through a comprehensive arcade machine build, including a complete wooden build of the cabinet itself. While it’s certainly impressive, not everyone has the space, time, or money for one. This is where awesome joystick kits like this one from Monster Joysticks come in. This article was written […]
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Vivaldi Web browser released for Raspberry Pi
Vivaldi has released an experimental build of its web browser for Raspberry Pi. The new web browsers offers a range of quirky and interesting features, such as tab grouping and screenshot capturing. More helpful, for Raspberry Pi users, is the ability to fine-tune performance by turning off support for features such as animated gifs; or […]
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