Raspberry Pi Official Magazine #118

Photography is a great way to make use of your Raspberry Pi single-board computer. Raspberry Pi's camera modules provide our small computer with an eye to the world, enabling sight-based projects and digital camera creations. Using the newer High Quality Camera enables you to snap images every bit as impressive as with an expensive camera. But, of course, you can do so much more with a Raspberry Pi because it's a fully programmable computer. Raspberry Pi can perform smart vision sensing tricks - capturing whatever you ask it to. And you can automate shots, taking one every few minutes to create stunning time-lapse shots. You can even use the images to create your own amazing works of art. This month we have a superb photography feature (page 32) that collects…

MAKER Dave Crump Dave is a retired RAF pilot who qualified for an amateur radio licence at 14 and has been transmitting television since he was 16. magpi.cc/portsdowndatv Dave Crump is no couch potato; in fact, he much prefers it on the other side of the TV set. Since his early years, he has had a passion for amateur TV. Starting with analogue home-built equipment, his projects have raised him up to be a key player in the British Amateur Television Club. His latest project, Portsdown 4, brings the new world of digital television transmission to a wider audience than ever before. “I was inspired by the desire to reproduce a capability that a few years ago would have occupied half a room and cost hundreds of thousands of pounds,…

MAKER Dmytro Panin Dmytro Panin is a programmer based in Ukraine, and he wrote his first Line of code aged eight, He works for a large provider of nearshore software engineering services. magpi.cc/airraidmonitorgit Last year, The MagPi featured two projects by Dmytro Panin: his Air Quality Traffic Light in issue 108 and his Solar System Display in issue 110. The first project sought to address concerns that his home city was one of Europe's most polluted, while the second allowed him to gaze at the skies. When we caught up with him recently, however, he was worried about his city and staring upwards for a very different reason. Dmytro is a Ukrainian from Kyiv, and he and his family are among millions of people displaced and suffering since Russia invaded…

MAKER Hillary Leone A New York-based artist working at the intersection of art, science, technology, and social impact. synch.live Creating art with Raspberry Pi is one of our favourite things to see, which is why we have been excited about this project during an email exchange with its creator, Hillary Leone. “Synch.Live is a joyful, participatory community art experience and cutting-edge brain science experiment, designed to spark emergent behaviour and fortify human connection,” Hillary tells us. “Here's how it works. A group of players wear bowler hats equipped with randomly flashing LEDs. Their challenge is to synchronise the LEDs on all of the hats without talking or touching. A tracking system mounted above tracks collective movement and calculates the level of group co-ordination in real time. If the group can…

MAKER Zsolt Pozsár Judit and Zsolt Pozsàr's remotely managed mushroom farm is an excellent first Raspberry Pi project for the engineer and his wife. magpi.cc/szerafin With two decades of engineering experience gained during military service, Hungarian Zsolt Pozsar resumed his vocational qualifications and began a career maintaining the bottling lines for a multinational company. Meanwhile, his wife Judit's small farming concern seemed as though it could benefit from Zsolt's knowledge of how technology could improve their crops. The couple have been growing mushrooms for the past five years. Zsolt's MM5D Raspberry Pi-based monitoring system - a four-channel programmable control and remote monitoring system - has kept an eye on the mushrooms’ development for the past three years, first in a cellar underneath the house, and more recently in dedicated mushroom…

MAKER Brendan Meharry Brendan runs a YouTube channel about retro gaming called Retro Game On. As a keen maker too, he tries to mix the two hobbies. retrogameon.com Alert! Copyright Video game files are protected by copyright Law. Be sure to use ROM files that have been released with the owner's blessing, or modern homebrew games designed to be shared. There are Lots of Legal options. magpi.cc/legalroms Remember the Vectrex video games system? Maybe not. Launched in 1982, it soon disappeared. Still, it was one of the most curious consoles ever made, with an integrated vector CRT monochrome monitor - colour could be added with the addition of an acrylic screen overlay that came with each cartridge-based game. Only 28 titles were officially released, including the built-in Mine Storm, although…