Articles by Russell Barnes

Raspbian gets a major update to Debian jessie

Big things (and small things) are changing in Raspbian as it upgrades to Debian 8.0

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Skycademy – mission accomplished

24 teachers took to the outdoors to launch some high-altitude balloons in a brand-new Picademy

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The Sense HAT touches down

Soon to be seen in low Earth orbit, you can now own the space-bound Sense HAT add-on board that makes the Astro Pi project possible

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Hello, world! The MagPi has a new website

Welcome to The MagPi’s new-look website designed to accompany the official Raspberry Pi magazine

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Nin10do community project

A 3D-printed Raspberry Pi-powered Nintendo Entertainment System that can also play Sega games…

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Starring The Raspberry Pi

Slowly but surely, the Raspberry Pi has been turning up in movies and TV shows. Simon Brew tracks its screen appearances to date…

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ExaGear desktop review – Pi virtualisation

Access a huge range of additional Linux (and even Windows) software using the Intel x86 virtualisation program

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Unchaining your 3D printer with OctoPrint

We show you how to turn your 3D printer into a WiFi-enabled network printer that you can control through any web browser, using a pre-made Pi SD card image

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LifeBox community project

Creating artificial intelligence on the Pi may sound like the start of the robot uprising, but the LifeBox isn’t taking any chances, and has imprisoned them in lights…

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4tronix Agobo – a simple robot

The Agobo is designed to cut a few corners in its pursuit of simplicity. Gareth Halfacree puts it to the test…

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Build a space shooter in Scratch

William H Bell walks us through how to create an impressive 3D space shooter using nothing more than Scratch and some clever coding techniques…

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McMaster Formula Hybrid EcoCAR project

McMaster University needed a smart telemetric system to get its hybrid racing car onto the winner’s podium, and the Raspberry Pi 2 provided everything the team could ask for

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