Pico 2 and RP2350 in The MagPi magazine #145

Pico 2 & RP2350

It has faster processors, more memory, greater power efficiency, and industry-leading security features and you can choose between Arm and RISC-V cores. The new Pico 2 is an incredible microcontroller board and we’ve secured interviews with the Raspberry Pi engineering team.

RP2350 Products out now

Plenty of companies are already using RP2350 in their products, and we’ve got the scoop on just about all of them. Inside this month’s mag you’ll discover breakout boards, development boards, integrated screens, tiny stamp sized boards, motion controllers, LoRa radio modules and much more.

Do the hustle

HackSpace is now part of The MagPi, and in this month’s magazine Jo Hinchcliffe looks at building up a side hustle as a maker. In this feature Jo outlines a plan to set up a hustle maker business using the Tindie platform.

Lenticular Clock

HackSpace Top Projects can now be found in The MagPi, and we love this Lenticular Clock by Moritz Sivers. Lenticular images are sliced up, so that when an array of lenses is placed over them, the image appears to move when you change the angle you look at it. This build is hard to explain so take a look at it in this month’s magazine.

M.A.R.S Rover

The M.A.R.S. Rover from 4tronix is one of the best robotics kits around. Based on NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars, this six-wheeled robot features a similar rocker-bogie suspension system that enables it to crawl over rocks and navigate tough terrain. This month, Phil King shows you how to setup your M.A.R.S. Rover kit, calibrate the servo motors, and control it from a remote computer.

Gugusse Roller

The Gugusse roller uses Raspberry Pi HQ camera and Pi 4B+ to import and digitise analogue film footage. Unhappy with the quality of results from his setup, Denis-Carl Robidoux set about integrating Raspberry Pi into Gugusse Roller with vastly improved results.

Poetry Camera

Take a photo with Poetry Camera and, rather than producing an image, it prints out a poem based on what it captured. You can adjust the poem type with a knob – ranging from sonnets and haikus to alliteration poems. This clever camera began life as an AI classifier and uses OpenAI API to create the poems. These are then printed out onto thermal paper.