Raspberry Pi Ultimate Wishlist in The MagPi magazine #99
By Lucy Hattersley. Posted
Discover an endless array of amazing gadgets, devices, and projects with our guide the greatest gear from the year. Our Ultimate Wishlist is the ideal inventory for a Raspberry Pi owner with a mission to build something new. Inside you’ll find the best retro gaming builds, amazing robots, cool cases, fun HATs, stunning sound systems, eye-catching vision displays, and the quirkiest kit around.
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Compute Module 4
Packing the power of Raspberry Pi 4 with an embedded form factor, Compute Module 4 is an incredible update for engineers and professionals. The most powerful Compute Module ever made packs a PCI Express lane, eMMC storage, and a quad-core ARM Cortex-A72 processor. We’ve got in-depth information about this new computer, plus benchmark tests and information about the new carrier boards.

Coffee Stirrer Camera
Adrian Hanft has built an innovative camera that uses 23,248 coffee stirrer straws and a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera to capture stunning, and unique, pictures. We talk to him about building experimental photography builds with Raspberry Pi.

Build a retro CD-ROM console
KG has been building a range of retro consoles for us in recent months, each one getting more and more advanced. This month KG delves into the world of CD-ROM gaming and multimedia entertainment systems. Attach a CD/DVD drive to your Raspberry Pi and get ready to (re)discover a world of classic entertainment.

Holiday projects for a festive home
Get ready for the holidays with our guide to decorations, lights, sound, remote control, glitz and glamour. We’ve put together a selection of fantastic community projects that you can use to bedeck your home for the festive season.

Stellina review
Rob goes hands-on with a high-powered Raspberry Pi telescope. Stellina whirred and tracked across the night sky and took photographs of Saturn for us. It’s a magical piece of kit.

Christina Foust interview
One of the creators of the current Digital Making at Home streams tells us how she went from teacher to a different kind of teacher.
Lucy is Editor of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine.
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