Of course, there’s loads more in the magazine – we have the usual blend of projects and tutorials to get your teeth into, including two games made by Raspberry Pi enthusiasts. The first is a reimplementation of the classic Snake game, which is how we used to waste time on our mobile phones before social media came along. With a LED matrix, four buttons and a Raspberry Pi Pico 2, Arnov Sharma has made an infuriatingly brilliant time-waster.

If you have access to a laser cutter (or failing that, some cardboard and a pair of scissors would work), you could build another game — Operation Pico! This takes the classic Hasbro game and adds a DIY twist, courtesy of a Raspberry Pi Pico.

If you’re looking for entertainment in a different sort of way, you could try installing an alternative operating system on your Raspberry Pi. We still recommend Raspberry Pi OS for most needs, but if you want to play with something completely different, Risc OS is a totally novel way of using a computer (or at least it was in 1987, when it was developed to run on ARM-based computers such as the Acorn Archimedes).

Photography and Raspberry Pi go together like a horse and carriage, with the Raspberry Pi Camera Module inspiring loads of time-lapse and video projects, and even artificial intelligence projects with the Raspberry Pi AI camera. Rob Miles has taken a different approach, and used a Raspberry Pi Pico to remotely press the shutter of his vintage Polaroid camera.

You’ll find all this and much more in the latest edition of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine. Pick up your copy today from our store, or subscribe to get every issue delivered to your door.