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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 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 Nathan Dane Hailing from Northern Ireland, Nathan spends most of his time working on electronic projects and coding. magpi.cc/nmsceefax Before the internet, there was teletext - a brightly coloured, blocky-looking information service built into a huge number of television sets from the mid-1970s onwards. It allowed millions of people to read news and sport headlines, check the weather, find travel information, view TV and radio listings, and even play a quiz or two. But while it still exists across the world, many popular services have long been axed - including BBC Ceefax which ended in 2012. Rather than allow its memory to wither, however, enthusiasts are determined to keep this charming service alive, among them Nathan Dane who had recreated his own version of Ceefax on a Raspberry Pi…

WRITER PJ Evans PJ has owned a ZX Spectrum since 1982. He's pictured here with Richard Altwasser and Dr Steven Vickers, the hardware and software designers of the ZX Spectrum. twitter.com/mrpjevans Forty years ago, Sir Clive Sinclair brought home computing to the masses with his affordable ZX Spectrum. It was soon the centrepiece of living rooms across the UK as young gamers and coders battled with parents for control of the television. As wonderful a machine as it still is, the tape loading system for games and other software was fraught with errors. Wonky cassettes and unreliable playback hardware caused no end of frustration. Now we can use a Raspberry Pi Zero to emulate a tape onto an original ZX Spectrum with a reliability you could only have dreamt of…

Your costume moves? It lights up? Great. Does it have sound effects and interactive elements on the outside? Time to add them. Social media without the internet Maker Tuang Thongborisute Web tuangstudio.com Project This social interaction project has a lot of buttons and lights and displays everywhere, which the general public can interact with, just like Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram. 01 Components galore There are several parts to this outfit, controlled by a Raspberry Pi and several Arduino controllers. Conductive rings on the fingers touch during a handshake, a button is used to unfriend and is tied to an LED display, a like is a high five which activates a force-sensitive resistor (FSR), dislike is via a touchscreen, and microswitches and pressure-conductive resistors (PCR) are used for follow/following. It's a lot…

INTERVIEW > Name Kevin McAleer | > Occupation Freelance Project Manager > Community role Maker and educator | > URL magpi.cc/kevinmcaleer One of our most passionate readers is Kevin. He always has something to share with us on #MagPiMonday, and notices little bits and pieces we put in the magazine, including accidental patterns in the colour of the spine. He's also an excellent maker and teacher of robotics on YouTube. “I've always been into making things as far back as I remember,” Kevin tells us. “From making things with cereal boxes (the best source of robust and available cardboard) to creating robots and futuristic worlds in Lego, at age eight! There was probably a gap of about 30 years before I got back into making and practical computing; I bought…

THE FINAL WORD One of the big talking points at the moment is Raspberry Pi for hobbyists and Raspberry Pi for industrial experts. Of course, these two things are rarely separate. My father-in-law, Richard, is a practical sort that likes to have all kinds of projects around the house. Sure, they may not be all finished yet, but they are interesting. He's built an incredible garage with a dual-action sliding door, and renovated an old wooden canoe with his daughter Rosie, who is insistent we will eventually bring it down to our terraced house in London. There's no space; unless we put it on the roof! He has a stone dragon gargoyle on his roof and a train layout, for which he built several landmark buildings from scratch. In his…

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 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 Kutluhan Akar A self-taught fullstack developer, maker, and electronics enthusiast, he concentrates on proof-of-concept environmental and ecological projects. Air quality is a big issue in many parts of the world - especially in cities and other built-up areas. While we've seen a couple projects like this before which just show current air quality readings, this project does something a bit more special. “I focused on creating an AI-driven, budget-friendly device to collect local weather data with ozone concentration to train a TinyML (TensorFlow Lite) neural network model,” Kutluhan Akar, the project's maker tells us. “[It runs] the trained model to forecast air quality levels so as to get prescient warnings regarding pulmonary risk factors to avert potential hazardous respiratory diseases.” It's built like a regular home weather station, with…

Less than two years after Raspberry Pi revolutionised the world of personal computing, the tiny but powerful Camera Module introduced a totally different approach to digital photography. The three Raspberry Pi Camera options open up dozens of fantastic projects to try that involve little more than adding a tiny-but-mighty lens and a smattering of code. Try point-and-shoot photography via a designed-it-yourself camera, capture superb sports day action shots and all-day time-lapses; explore artificial intelligence using image recognition; set up smart surveillance in case of unwelcome guests; use wildlife cams to enjoy the birds and the bees; a delivery cam just in case the postman doesn't ring twice; encase a camera in a waterproof housing to explore the world aquatic; or bolt to a telescope to peer at celestial realms unknown.…

MAKER Stephen Smith Stephen is a retired software developer who has written three books on ARM Assembly Language Programming. He is a member of Sunshine Coast Search and Rescue and enjoys mountain biking, hiking, and running, He is also a member of the Sunshine Coast Writers and Editors Society (scwes.ca). magpi.cc/stepnensmith Raspberry Pi Pico is a low-cost microcontroller board built around Raspberry Pi's custom RP2040 system-on-a-chip (SoC) containing dual-core 32-bit ARM processor cores. The RP2040 uses ARM's microcontroller M-series instruction set, sometimes referred to as the ‘thumb’ instruction set, which is based on the 32-bit instruction set, except most instructions use 16 bits of memory. This makes programs compact and allows you to do quite a lot in the RP204o's 264kB of memory. There is no operating system on Pico,…

Want to really make your costume eyecatching? Install lights and displays on it so that you instantly light up the room. Cosplay lights Maker Freya and Rob Zwetsloot Web magpi.cc/cosplayeyes Project Using NeoPixel LEDS, these lights were programmed to recreate colour patterns for the character Sans from Undertale. Using a button press cycled through different settings. 01 Build the circuit For this project, a round NeoPixel board was used. NeoPixel lights require power, a data input, and ground. While there are not many lights in this setup, they usually require more power than a Raspberry Pi can deliver, so you'll need a battery pack as well. A button is also added, which acts as the trigger for the different light effects. 02 Coding NeoPixels require special libraries to work with Python and…

► SB Components ► magpi.cc/stackypi ► £14 / $18 Well is it a Raspberry Pi Zero? Is it a Pico?… No, it's StackyPi. While there are a few dedicated add-ons for Pico, if you're a Raspberry Pi fan then you probably have some HATs kicking around that you might like to use with it. Due to Pico's different arrangement of GPIO pins (in two separate rows), however, it's not possible to simply plug in a HAT. Step forward StackyPi. Based on the same Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller chip as Pico, it offers the same functionality, but with a pre-soldered 40-pin (2x20) GPIO header. It has a very similar form factor to a Raspberry Pi Zero, including four mounting holes. There's even a microSD card slot for extra storage, although StackyPi…

Every Monday we ask the question: have you made something with a Raspberry Pi over the weekend? Every Monday, our followers send us amazing photos and videos of the things they've made. Here's a selection of some of the awesome things we got sent this month - and remember to follow along at the hashtag #MagPiMonday!! We love the mixture of 1960s futurist tech with the map, and modern e paper screen for tracking times Another MIDI box or two, and a controller in this case? We like the naming convention A very simple stand that does the job perfectly This compact, portable looking TV console build reminds us a bit of the Nintendo GameCube One of Brian's first Raspberry Pi projects was a zoetrope, and this new Pico version…

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 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…

MAKER ElliotMade A technical product manager for an online retail company, Elliot spends his spare time on electronics, machining, gardening, and just making things in general. elliotmade.com Warning! CNC Cutter Be careful when using CNC cutters in your projects. Wear ear protection and safety glasses and stand clear of the machinery as it works. Understand the basic safety functions of your machine. magpi.cc/cncsafety We've seen a wide variety of displays used in projects, but none quite like this. With a standard 16×16 NeoPixel LED matrix board connected by optic fibres to a grid of tiny holes in a smaller 35×7 front plate, it results in some cool colour effects from the light leaking from the sides of the fibres. To get the full impact, check out the video (magpi.cc/fibreopticyt) on…

We are going to show you how to connect the High Quality Camera or Camera Module to your Raspberry Pi using the supplied ribbon cable. Attaching a Camera Module to Raspberry Pi is easy, using the CSI (camera serial interface) found on most Raspberry Pi boards. You'll need a compatible ribbon cable. The larger Model A and Model B Raspberry Pi boards use a standard cable (magpi.cc/cameracable), while the smaller Zero boards use a Zero Camera Cable (magpi.cc/zerocameracable). With a camera attached to Raspberry Pi, you can then start to capture images and video using terminal commands and Python code. We will then enable it in Raspberry Pi OS, before entering some commands in a Terminal window to start shooting photos and video. Let's get started… RASPBERRY PI CAMERA GUIDE…

WRITER Sean McManus Author of Mission Python, Scratch Programming in Easy Steps, and Raspberry Pi For Dummies (with Mike Cook), Get free chapters at Sean's website, sean.co.uk Brian Eno's 77 Million Paintings is a video installation that merges slides together to create endless variations of abstract art. I created my own version, called ArtEvolver, which runs on a Raspberry Pi and uses a Pimoroni 8-inch LCD screen. To work well, it needs a large library of images. This issue, you'll see how to curate them and prepare them using ImageMagick's (imagemagick.org) powerful batch processing. You'll learn how a single command can resize, crop, or transform hundreds of pictures. There's a short Bash script to automate image rotation, and we'll take a tour through some of ImageMagick's special effects. 01 Collect your…

EDWIN JONES Edwin Jones is a senior software engineer at Mediatonic who's been working in the games industry for around 17 years. edwinjones.me.uk Download the code from GitHub: wfmag.cc/wfmag62 How can you make your own game for a handheld console that came out in the 1980s? It's actually quite easy, thanks to a few factors. Because the Game Boy is so old, it's simple to program. And, thanks to the open-source community, its tools are better now than they've ever been. If you have a desktop computer, you can write code and run it on a Game Boy. One of the simplest ways to get started is with the Game Boy Development Kit, or GBDK. We can use this to write C code and compile it into a Game Boy…

► The Pi Hut ► magpi.cc/picoairquality ► £39 / $42 Air pollution is an ongoing issue in many parts of the world, so the Air Quality Datalogging Board for Pico may well come in very useful for monitoring purposes. A fair bit larger than a Raspberry Pi Pico (not supplied) which plugs into its dual female headers, this square board surprised us with just how many features have been crammed in. For starters, there's a mini OLED screen (128×64 monochrome) to show sensor readings, plus two small push-buttons, a piezo buzzer, and three ZIP (WS2812B) RGB LEDs along one edge. Then there's a host of input and output options, including three analogue inputs (connected to Pico's ADC channels) for connecting external sensors, a ZIP socket to add more LEDs, a…

The Linux Command Line AUTHOR William Shotts Price: £34 / $40 (Free PDF version) magpi.cc/linuxclook Like most Linux systems, Raspberry Pi OS has a user-friendly graphical user interface, but opening up a terminal window enables you get under the hood. Its command-line interface can often prove quicker and more efficient than a GUI - once you get to know it and learn a few useful commands. Over 500+ pages, The Linux Command Line takes you from entering your first command right through to writing programs in Bash shell script. Part one covers topics such as navigating the file system, manipulating files and directories, advanced keyboard tricks, permissions, and processes. The second part introduces text editors, with a detailed section on vi, and prompt customisation. Part three covers common tasks and…

PicoBricks “Pico Bricks is an electronic development board + software which is designed for use in maker projects. With ten detachable modules included, Pico Bricks can be used to create a wide variety of projects. It also includes a protoboard that you can use to add your own modules.” kck.st/3M9Q036 RadSense “The WeatherSense RadSense is built around a Geiger counter that counts the number of energetic particles hitting the gas inside the tube. Software on the Grove Mini Pro Plus board reads these counts and produces a CPM count. The computer then encodes the data and sends it via a 433MHz radio signal (no radio license required!) to your Raspberry Pi.” kck.st/3LG5USK SQ1 case “SQ1 is a Raspberry Pi case you want to put right beside your headamp, DAC, and…

Parts unknown I noticed in issue 117 the article CDP Studio - apparently this is part two but, for the life of me, I cannot find which issue part one was in? I've spent about 30 mins looking at the contents of each issue on the website going back about a year but can't find it… can you give me a clue as to which issue it's in?Dave via email The first part was in issue 116 on page 56 - in the contents it's labelled as ‘LED patterns with web GUI’, but in the tutorial it is called part one of a CDP Studio series. We're sorry this ended up being confusing! That particular series is complete, and you can finish the whole thing now. Model B query I…