Raspberry Pi Official Magazine #143

Robots are a true passion here at The MagPi. Few things you make with computers have the same potential to impress as a walking, wheeling, or even talking 'bot. The real skill isn't just building a robot that rolls around, but creating a smart rover that can sense its environment and react accordingly. These rovers are sent into hazardous environments, or even to other planets. Our robot explorer feature (page 40) has everything you need to get rolling. Have fun building your robot, and don't forget to give it a name. And when you're done check out the new AI Kit (page 8). This new Raspberry Pi kit offers the potential to vastly speed up artificial intelligence projects. We can't wait to start making with it, and I know our…

“Running in real time, with low latency and low power requirements” If you've ever wanted to experiment with the world of neural networks, artificial intelligence and machine learning on your Raspberry Pi 5, we have the perfect product for you: the Raspberry Pi AI Kit. Developed in collaboration with Hailo (hailo.ai), the AI Kit offers an accessible way to integrate local, high-performance, power-efficient inferencing into a wide variety of applications. It's available today from our network of Raspberry Pi Approved Resellers, priced at just $70 (approx £55). The Raspberry Pi AI Kit comprises our M.2 HAT+ preassembled with a Hailo-8L AI accelerator module. Installed on a Raspberry Pi 5 (magpi.cc/raspberrypi5), the AI Kit allows you to rapidly build complex AI vision applications, running in real time, with low latency and…

The new Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ enables you to connect M.2 M-key peripherals, such as NVMe drives and AI accelerators, to your Raspberry Pi 5. It provides fast (up to 500 MB/s) data transfer to and from these peripherals, and is available to buy today, from our network of Approved Resellers, priced at just $12/£11.50. Raspberry Pi 5 launched back in September last year with an exciting new feature on board. No, not the power button. Or the battery-backed real-time clock. We're talking about the PCI Express (PCIe) expansion connector: this small 16-way FFC (flexible flat cable) connector, positioned at the extreme left of the board where the MIPI display connector lives on older Raspberry Pi boards, carries a single-lane (one transmit pair, one receive pair, and one clock pair)…

MAKER Arvind Sanjeev Arvind is a design technologist who loves to experiment between the boundaries of the physical and digital. magpi.cc/spin Danger! Mains Electricity This project involves disassembling a mains-powered record player. magpi.cc/electricalsafety “My idea was to remove AI experiences from black boxes and put them into the physical world,” says Arvind Sanjeev. “It's an open invitation for people to forget about the digital world and to try to create something with AI.” His previous project was Ghostwriter, a typewriter which he converted to use text generator ChatGPT. Humans type their messages and Ghostwriter types its replies onto the same sheet of paper. He wanted to create a family of devices and was thinking about where else AI has been disruptive. “The latest music AIs have become so good that…

It looks like a game controller but for visually impaired people this dice-rolling device is actually a game changer as David Crookes discovers MAKER Christopher Hall Christopher Hall is a Senior Network Engineer from Pikeville, KY, USA. He's a maker at heart and lover of all things geeky. magpi.cc/dm2000 Chris Hall enjoys playing board games and he's part of a local gaming group. He attends with his best friend and the pair have had many happy times but a medical condition affecting his pal's vision has threatened to spoil the fun. “About a year ago, my best friend was diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease,” says Chris. “So when his birthday was coming up, I wanted to do something special for him.” Most of the games played by the group…

MAKER GurgleApps Amelia, Caleb, and Zivya are the three-person team of GurgleApps, a STEM YouTube channel focusing on electronics that has been going for years. They're also siblings. magpi.cc/colwordclock Gurgle Apps has been making fun electronics projects (and tutorial!) videos for years now, and we've included what they've made in the mag several times. The three siblings Amelie, Caleb and Zivya are back again in these pages with a kit that you can actually build yourself – the Colour Word Clock. “One of our first ever projects was a tiny 8×8 LED matrix word clock using a Raspberry Pi,” the siblings explain to us. “At that time we were too young to do it on our own, our Dad made it to teach us a bit of Python and electronics.…