Gear Guide 2025 in The MagPi magazine issue 148

Gear Guide 2025!

Our Gear Guide 2025! has your back. Discover a treasure trove of Raspberry Pi devices and great accessories taking us into a glittering new year.

Gift a project

Sometimes the perfect gift is one you made yourself. Christmas Elf, Rob Zwetsloot has a fantastic feature for constructing your gifts using Raspberry Pi technology. On a budget? These projects break down the pricing so you can decide on what project to put together.

Bumpin Sticker

This issue is packed with amazing projects. Our favourite is this Bumpin Sticker that attaches an 11.3-inch LCD display to the bumper of a car and hooks up to the car radio. It displays the song and artist that you are listening to by scraping data from last.fm. It’s fun, but a serious demonstration of different technologies.

Bluetooth Bakelite phone headset

This Bluetooth headset is built into the body of a Dutch phone from 1950, simply called a ‘type 1950’. It’s powered by an ESP32 development board, and it works well enough that its creator, Jouke Waleson, can use it in a professional setting.

PiDog tested

Featuring 12 servos, PiDog is a metal marvel that can do (almost) anything a real dog can do. Walk, sit, lie down, doze, bark, howl, pant, scratch, shake a paw… Equipped with a bunch of sensors, it can self-balance, discern the direction of sounds, detect obstacles, and see where it’s going. You can even get a dog’s-eye view from its nose-mounted camera via a web page or companion app.

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