Raspberry Pi Official Magazine #151

rpimag.co This is an incredibly important edition of the magazine formerly known as The MagPi. We've now got full official status and are now known as Raspberry Pi Official Magazine. I love change, but it's important to remember where you are from. So we're keeping everything else familiar to those of you who see this as the 151st edition of The MagPi. If you appreciated our old magazine, you'll love Raspberry Pi Official Magazine. It looks different but is packed with the same amazing Raspberry Pi projects, tutorials, and features. We've got a huge troubleshooting guide updated for Raspberry Pi OS with Debian Bookworm. Armed with this guide, you'll be a better Raspberry Pi maker and builder. We tapped into the Raspberry Pi engineering team for advice and feedback so…

Raspberry Pi has announced the winners of its recent RP2350 Hacking Challenge. To coincide with the DEF CON hacking conference in August 2024, where RP2350 featured on the conference badge, a prize of $10,000 was offered to the first person to demonstrate the ability to bypass the chip's security architecture and read a secret value from the on-chip one-timeprogrammable (OTP) memory. The prize was later doubled to $20,000, and the deadline extended from September to December 2024. On 14 Jan 2025, Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi co-founder and CEO, stated: “We're pleased (ish) to announce that we received not one but four valid submissions.” The winners The winners are: 'Hazardous threes' created by Aedan Cullen, 'USB bootloader single-instruction fault with supply-voltage injection' by Marius Muench, 'Signature check single-instruction fault with laser…

Stream video games from any computer on your local network Steam Link, the popular video gaming streaming software, has had a series of updates for Raspberry Pi. The latest 1.3.5 BETA version was released on 8 February and introduces support for VirtualHere in Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm. With Steam Link software installed on a Raspberry Pi, you can stream video games from any computer on your local network or over the internet running Steam software. In effect, this extends your PC video games to stream at any location in the house. It's especially useful for streaming video games from a PC (located in the house) to a console-style Raspberry Pi connected to your home television. We tested it out with a Steam Deck handheld device and a Raspberry Pi 5…

Lately, well-crafted connected devices that feature wireless sensors and reliable, low- cost compute hardware have been revolutionising many 'unconnected' industries, services, and applications. One such industry and service is the delivery of pre-mixed concrete. Mounting MixPilot Canadian Raspberry Pi customer Giatec (giatecscientific.com) recently launched a unique and very clever product called MixPilot (rpimag.co/mixpilot). MixPilot gets mounted to concrete delivery trucks and, through the use of sensors and algorithms, can monitor various aspects of concrete being delivered, including a property known as its 'slump'. This is measured to ensure the quality of the concrete and give the fleet operators more visibility into the trucks and their payload, as well as bringing other new operational benefits. Part of the product's charm is that it's easy to install on the truck: it's 'set and…

shapingthesilence.com Musical instruments are dependent on physics and maths for their sounds. A guitar string changes pitch when its physical properties change, be that string thickness, tension or length. A note from a saxophone, or any wind instrument, changes according to the length of the instrument that the air is vibrating through. Any physical instrument needs to have some physical property that the player must interact with in order to play music, and this naturally limits who can play, and what can be played. At least, that's how it always was. With MIDI and computers, this no longer has to be true. The instrument that you play is nothing more than an input device, like a keyboard and a mouse, and as such, it can be any shape or size…

downingsbasement.com For the past 15 years, Chris Downing has been part of a community that takes old TV console games and turns them into portable versions using original hardware wherever possible, posting details on his site, Downing's Basement (downingsbasement.com). Raspberry Pi had “always been in the scene”, with many hobbyists using it to make portable emulation handhelds, “which in its own right was very cool”, says Chris, even though it was against the group's “purist original hardware culture”. Nonetheless, when it came time to create his own Doom-playing Mini Air Hockey Table and scoreboard, he instinctively turned to Raspberry Pi. Multicoloured swap shop A change of company gave Chris access to bigger and more robust CNC routing tools and large flatbed printers, while a Yankee swap at the office party netted…