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Raspberry Pi 5 is out now! This is a landmark event for Raspberry Pi as it brings speed parity with traditional desktop computers. That you get all that speed and power in a tiny singleboard computer is nothing short of miraculous. And we can't wait to see what you make with it. Our Launch Special starts on page 36. We've also got 50 Raspberry Pi project ideas starting on page 70. If you're thinking of something to make with your shiny new Raspberry Pi 5, this feature is sure to fire some brain cells. We can't wait to see what you make with Raspberry Pi 5. So please remember to share your creations (big or small) with us using #MagPiMonday on social media. Or, email us directly: magpi@raspberrypi.com. We always…

MAKER Anouk Wipprecht Anouk Wipprecht is a Dutch FashionTech designer and innovator who works and travels between San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and Amsterdam. anoukwipprecht.nl It's fair to say that clothing fashion and computing don't always go hand-in-hand. But bring amazing talent such as Anouk Wipprecht on board and all eyes are definitely going to be on the wearer – as this striking ScreenDress shows to great effect. As well as fitting snugly around the body, the 3D-printed dress includes a set of circular LCD screens, each of which looks like an eye. Connected to an EEG sensor – a four-channel BCI headset developed by neurotechnology company g.tec – they change according to how the wearer feels by reading brainwaves and working out a person's cognitive load. To that end,…

MAKER Tod Kurt Tod is a maker from Pasadena CA. He runs ThingM, is co-founder of CrashSpaceLA hackerspace. mastodon.social/@todbot Tod Kurt is a maker with a love of musical synths and his latest creation is PicoSynth, a MIDI synthesizer based on the PicoTouch board. PicoTouch is a thin capacitive touch platform, and Tod's software turns Raspberry Pi Pico into a MIDI synthesizer that he can use to play sounds directly, or connect to another computer to control audio software (magpi.cc/picotouch). The PicoTouch CapSense MIDI keyboard is a slim plastic board with 22 touch pads and 19 RGB LEDs. “It's one of the thinnest MIDI controllers at about 6 millimetres when Raspberry Pi Pico is installed,” says Tod. The ten pads on the bottom are note triggers for the C major…

For full instructions, head to: magpi.cc/fileserver In The MagPi 134 (magpi.cc/134) we talked to Alasdair Allan, Head of Documentation, who mentioned he was excited for the prospect of low-power NAS boxes that made use of the M.2 HAT coming to Raspberry Pi 5 in the future. Here are the basics of setting one up. 01 Software setup You need to install Samba onto Raspberry Pi OS, usually done with: We like to use NTFS for the shared drive so that other operating systems can use it easily, so we install that with: 02 Storage setup Usually we use an external hard drive, but using the SSD drive will be very similar – plug it in, make sure it's formatted, and then mount it to Raspberry Pi OS. It will do this automagically…

More power from Raspberry Pi means more power to emulate the consoles of yore. We've already seen reports of the GameCube, and even the Wii, being successfully emulated on Raspberry Pi 5. However, you may not be able to quite get it 100% working on day one of Raspberry Pi 5. It likely won't take long, though. We like to use RetroPie for emulation, which is available as an installation option in Raspberry Pi Imager – find it under ‘Emulation and game OS'. Set up is very simple, although you'll have to source your own games. Check out magpi.cc/legalroms for how to do that. Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi This book has everything you need for creating retro game boxes or even making your own retro-style games. Grab it at…

MAKER Also known as Penguin Tutor. Maker and YouTuber that loves all things Raspberry Pi and Pico. Author of Learn Electronics with Raspberry Pi. penguintutor.com twitter.com/stewartwatkiss Take your Raspberry Pi on the move by designing and making a wheeled robot This tutorial will explain how you can design and make your own robot. Start by designing your own chassis and mount mecanum wheels with full direction control. The robot will then need four separate motors individually controlled with a H-bridge driver for each wheel. Take control by learning how to use AntiMicroX to control the robot with a gamepad. 01 Mecanum wheels Mecanum wheels are a type of omnidirectional wheel which can be used to move a robot vehicle in multiple directions. They are particularly good at getting into tight spaces…

Cam Jam EduKit AUTHOR CamJam Price: From £6 magpi.cc/camjamkits Raspberry Pi's 40-pin GPIO header is its ‘superpower’, enabling you to connect not only HATs and other breakout boards, but also your own custom electronic circuits. If you're looking for a lowcost way to learn how to begin building circuits, you can't go wrong with the CamJam EduKit series. The first of these, EduKit #1, has everything (bar a Raspberry Pi) you need to get started: a 400-point breadboard, three LEDs (red, yellow, green), push-button, buzzer, resistors, and a selection of jumper wires to connect components to each other on the breadboard and to Raspberry Pi's pins. Best of all, online worksheets guide you through a series of electronics projects, coding them with Python on Raspberry Pi. Once you've mastered the…

Every Monday we ask the question: have you made sometihing with a Rasberry 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. Remember to follow along at the hashtag #MagPiMonday!…

Lockdown handheld project Peter Anderton, who made the Gutter Probe project you can find on page 26, also sent us this handheld Raspberry Pi project he'd made. It was apparently a challenge he set for himself during Lockdown in 2020, and it looks pretty good. Mini nineties PC Is nineties nostalgia here? Has it been and gone? We're not sure, but this fun project styled after a classic late-1990s package PC is very small and employs Raspberry Pi. Although it does run Windows XP, which is a bit advanced for your Gateway. magpi.cc/mini90spc…

THE FINAL WORD Watching Raspberry Pi 5 come to life was an incredible process. From hearing about the initial designs, to seeing the problem-solving, and hearing clever solutions proposed by the incredible design team. On our part, there was the stress of making sure everything was ready for launch. And the fear of being the one to accidentally leak it and ruin the surprise for everyone. It's been a real eye-opener. It's not really real until this point though. When it launches and gets into the hands of our readers, and they start to build stuff with it: that's when Raspberry Pi 5 becomes a real product. So, what are we all to do with this super-fast, packed-withnew-features, and ringing and singing full of bells-and-whistles new computer? Where to start?…

MAKER John McNelly A tinkerer who is fond of making and breaking new things with electronics, software, and mechanical engineering. John lives in Campbell, CA, and works as an electrical engineer. johnmcnelly.com Experienced at etching PCBs in his garage, John McNelly found that one of the most frustrating and time-consuming parts of fabricating two-sided boards was drilling the through-holes. Keen to speed up the process, he created the Drill Press Camera, a clever piece of kit that makes his life so much easier. “I got tired of squinting at a teeny-tiny drill bit attached to a benchtop drill press,” John explains, “so I built this project so that I can squint at a teeny-tiny screen attached to a benchtop drill press instead. The microscope camera has an HDMI output that…

MAKER Max van Leeuwen Max studied at the Netherlands Film Academy. After working in visual effects for film, he now develops augmented reality and interactive installations. maxvanleeuwen.com A broken Polaroid Land Camera may, for some people, not prove particularly inspiring. However, Max van Leeuwen's grandfather had given him the antiquated object, and Max was determined to give it a new impetus. “I really wanted to hide a Raspberry Pi in there and bring this vintage object back to life in some way,” he tells us. “I loved the idea of adding some mysticism to it. At first, I wasn't sure what to make with it, though…” When Max came up with the idea of adding an e-paper display module to the mix, he knew he was on the right track.…

MAKER Phil King A long-time contributor to The MagPi, Phil is a freelance writer and editor with a focus on technology. @philkingeditor You'll Need > Raspberry Pi > 16GB microSD card (or greater) While the official Raspberry Pi OS is an excellent, easy-to-use operating system tailored for Raspberry Pi computers, there are numerous alternatives you can use instead – see our feature in issue 111 (magpi.cc/111). The most popular among these is Ubuntu, based on Debian Linux (just like Raspberry Pi OS). One of the most commonly used Linux distros in general, Ubuntu offers a slick user interface, a wide range of up-to-date software, and the benefit of familiarity for anyone who's already used it on another computer. And Ubuntu 23.10 supports Raspberry Pi 5. We'll walk you through how to…

£ EDAC £ magpi.cc/clipzin £ £4 (pack of two) SPECS FEATURES: Gold flash-plated contacts, surface-mount connectors, board retention clips DIMENSIONS: 57 × 26 × 6 mm Verdict Should prove handy for Pico-based PCB prototyping and could also be used in final products. 8/10 Aimed mainly at breakout/carrier board manufacturers, along with advanced electronics hobbyists, ClipZin is a new way to connect a Raspberry Pi Pico to a PCB. Ever wondered why Pico has those castellated (bumpy) edges alongside the two strips of 20 GPIO pin holes? You can use these castellations – actually gold-plated half-holes – instead of the usual pins to connect Pico to other electronics. This kind of card-edge technology has long been used in computer design. While you could always just solder Pico's castellations directly onto metal contact pads…

BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO READING SCHEMATICS A proper schematic diagram offers a much clearer, high-precision view of circuit designs, once you understand the symbols used. Stan Gibilisco's book explains how to read schematics and design your own for projects. magpi.cc/readschematics RASPBERRY PI COOKBOOK 4TH EDITION Simon Monk's 650-page tome is an all-round Raspberry Pi user and programming guide that includes several chapters dedicated to connecting electronics such as LEDs, pushbuttons, and sensors. magpi.cc/rpicookbook4 GET STARTED WITH MICROPYTHON ON RASPBERRY PI PICO This official Raspberry Pi Pico guide book features step-bystep guides on building a range of circuits and programming them in MicroPython on the powerful microcontroller board. magpi.cc/picobook…

YOUR LETTERS Raspberry Pi 5 projects I'm very excited by the news of Raspberry Pi 5 coming out, and really looking forward to getting mine. My mind is abuzz with ideas but I was wondering if you'd be able to propose any projects that make use of the new features? Chuck via email We're as excited as you are, and we also have a load of project ideas in mind – check out this month's features for some excellent ideas on where to get started! Features Ed Rob is really looking forward to checking out VR movie filming with Raspberry Pi, a project Ben Everard, Editor of HackSpace Magazine, is currently working on too. If anyone has any project ideas, or complete projects they want to share with us, don't…

MAKER Zhou Xu Zhou is an electron microscope scientist working at Monash University in Australia. He also describes himself as a maker, 3D printing nerd, and LEGO MOCer. magpi.cc/bbpi There was a time, before Apple and Google entered the fray, when BlackBerry smartphones were all the rage. They were introduced in 1999 and, at their peak in 2011, attracted more than 85 million users. From that point on, however, it was all downhill as BlackBerry's big selling points – the physical keyboard and email service – gave way to touchscreens and rival alternatives. Even so, there's still something rather charming about BlackBerry handsets and, for anyone wanting to do some serious computing on-the-go, tapping away on physical keys remains more comfortable. For those reasons, it's hard not to be enthused…

MAKER Mukesh Sankhla Siemens India software and IoT developer Mukesh loves making and documenting electronic, mechanical, and software projects. magpi.cc/touchcamins Mukesh Sankhla's enthusiasm for tech jumps off the page. His responses to The MagPi's questions about his TouchCam camera project are packed with words such as ‘inspire’, ‘love’ and the absolute joy he's found in sharing his roster of makes over the past three years. Having completed his studies only a year ago, the computer science graduate was quickly snapped up by Siemens India, where Mukesh works as a software engineer with an Internet of Things focus, and spends his spare time creating and sharing technology-based designs. The TouchCam has gone through several iterations, which Mukesh has shared as an Instructable: magpi.cc/touchcamins. Its design is loosely based on Adafruit's 3D…

MAKER Peter Anderton A civil engineer with a background in computer science who eventually became a software developer before semi-retiring, and now does a lot of making and puzzle-solving for fun. Raspberry Pi is used for a lot of things – some more surprising than others. When Peter Anderton emailed us about a very unique use of Raspberry Pi to solve a conundrum, we decided we had to share it in the magazine. “My wife and I had noticed that, whenever it rained hard, we were getting a serious overspill from one of our house gutters onto our conservatory,” Peter says in his email. “Unhelpfully, the overspill appeared to originate from an inner-corner joint of the gutter, over 15 feet up and directly over the conservatory, so virtually impossible to…

By the time you read this, Raspberry Pi 5 will be out. We've been waiting four years for this and we're very excited to use it ourselves, and see what other people come up with. Which brings us to the age old question: what do you want to do with your Raspberry Pi? We have some answers for you, and with the new capabilities of Raspberry Pi 5 in mind. So get your brain into gear, and get ready to make. WHERE TO BUY The best way to get a Raspberry Pi 5 is via a Raspberry Pi Approved Reseller. Check out raspberrypi.com/5 for a full list of resellers in your country. The MagPi subscribers get theirs first! magpi.cc/priorityboarding…

LibreELEC (in some form or another) and Kodi have been mainstays for Raspberry Pi media centres for a very long time. With the new VideoCore VII GPU on Raspberry Pi 5, while hardware decoding of H.264 is no longer present, the power of the CPU is more than enough to play them and it allows for 4K H.264 media now too. What is exciting is the inclusion of H.265 and VC1 hardware decoding, which is used in a lot of newer media for higher-quality files and audio. Setting up LibreELEC, our preferred method of using a media centre, is exceptionally easy: on Raspberry Pi Imager (magpi.cc/imager), when selecting an operating system, select ‘Media player OS' and, from the menu, choose LibreELEC. Setup is simple, and you can check our ultimate…

MAKER Tim has been involved with Raspberry Pi's community almost from the start. He is part of the Pi Wars organising team and their resident course designer/ builder, as well as writing the CamJam EduKit worksheets, former CamJam organiser and current maker. @Geeky_Tim Learn how to send messages between Raspberry Pi computers, Raspberry Pi Pico, and lots of other devices using a simple protocol called MQTT. MQTT (Message Queuing Telemetry Transport) was originally created back in 1999 to be a lightweight way of passing small messages between devices on unreliable or low-bandwidth networks. Its main use is for machine-to-machine communication, or for the Internet of Things. Being lightweight means that it can be used by small, resource-constrained microcontrollers, like Raspberry Pi Pico. That does not mean its use is limited,…

AUTHOR Stewart Watkiss Price: £40 magpi.cc/learnelectronicsbook You may recognise author Stewart Watkiss from the series of electronics tutorials he's written for The MagPi, starting in issue 127 and covering everything from the basics to creating a Pong game and controlling a model railway. His book, Learn Electronics with Raspberry Pi, guides you stepby-step through the creation of a variety of electronics and hardware projects using a Raspberry Pi. These include mastering input and output from the GPIO pins, programming in Python, and reading light and PIR sensors. Of particular interest is the chapter on making your circuits more permanent by soldering components to stripboard or protoboard. The final chapter looks at designing your own custom circuits – using the Fritzing tool (fritzing.org) to create schematics which you could even turn…

INTERVIEW > Name Nai-Wen Hsu > Occupation Raspberry Pi reseller > Community role Advocate > URL piepie.com.tw While the Raspberry Pi community spreads the globe, each country has its own unique community with own unique community with its own events and ideas. Taiwan is no different, with the founder of the Taiwan Raspberry Pi Community also an Approved Reseller of Raspberry Pi. “My job is to promote and sell Raspberry Pi, provide Raspberry Pi-based solutions, and design Raspberry Pi educational courses,” Nai-Wen tells us. What is your history with making? I studied manufacturing technology and computer engineering in college and graduate school respectively, so I am familiar with program development and processing of various materials such as metal, wood, and acrylic. Since coming into contact with Arduino in 2009, I…