Raspberry Pi Official Magazine #144

Attaching a camera to Raspberry Pi opens up a world of vision-based possibilities. I can take photographs, but now thanks to AI Kit my Raspberry Pi can make smart decisions based on what it sees. I’ve been having a lot of fun this month with Raspberry Pi’s Camera Module and AI Kit. Toby, our maker-in-residence, glued a GorillaPod to the bottom of an official Raspberry Pi case and made a portable smart camera to take out for testing. My three-legged camera and AI Kit creation has yet to get a name (PiTriPod, maybe?) Read all about how to set up AI Kit on Page 46, Camera on Page 56, and amazing camera projects to try out on Page 62. Of course, what makes Raspberry Pi special isn’t just the board…

We’re just back from Open Sauce 2024 (opensauce.com) and I don’t think we’ve ever seen so many makers, tech enthusiasts, and YouTubers all together in one place before. This year’s Open Sauce expanded into the Cow Palace venue in San Francisco and definitely felt more gigantic than last year’s inaugural event. Our poor feet; please send help for our feet. The event combines the best of makers and creators, featuring interactive exhibits, an up-close look at maker technology, talks, panels, and small workshops with top YouTubers. "Thanks again to everyone who stopped to talk to us about your creations" Pi-powered creations everywhere It was excellent to meet so many makers who had brought their Raspberry Pi-powered creations to Open Sauce. Over the coming weeks, we’ll be blogging about as many…

A month and a half ago, we launched Raspberry Pi Connect (magpi.cc/connect), giving you simple, remote access to your Raspberry Pi straight out of the box, from anywhere in the world. Since then we’ve been listening to your thoughts on what you’d most like to see from the service: today we’re excited to announce the latest beta release, bringing Raspberry Pi Connect to even more devices. Today’s release includes remote shell access and support for all Raspberry Pi computers, whether they’re running Raspberry Pi OS 32-bit or 64-bit, going all the way back to the 2012 Raspberry Pi 1. This includes Raspberry Pi OS Lite, as well as versions of Raspberry Pi OS with the desktop. Remote shell access The new remote shell feature in Raspberry Pi Connect enables you…

Our retro-gaming classic went on sale back in 2019, and this year we’re releasing the new edition of Code the Classics Volume I. The biggest update is the addition of three new tutorials covering Python, Pygame Zero, and Git for version control. These new tutorials will make working with the code examples easier for beginners Retrogamers of certain generations will remember the days of type-in computer game listings. Nearly every computer magazine, from ANALOG Computing (magpi.cc/analogcomp) to The Micro User (magpi.cc/microuser) featured code listings that you’d have to type into your computer. There were books, too, like the ubiquitous Usborne books (magpi.cc/usborne). You’d trade an hour or two of your time for an experience that was just as good as games from your local computer store. This new edition of…

MAKER Rodrigo is a software engineer, hardware hobbyist and industrial design aficionado from Mexico. He’s been tinkering with hardware since 2010. magpi.cc/linamp When looking to play MP3 music files for a good while from the late-’90s onwards, Microsoft Windows users would tend to migrate towards the Winamp media player. Originally released in 1997 and developed by Justin Frankel and Dmitry Boldyrev, Winamp’s skeuomorphic user interface soon resembled a compact stereo system. It was instantly accessible and it certainly caught the attention of a young Rodrigo Méndez – so much so, he’s based a cool Raspberry Pi project on it. “I remember when I first got my own PC – an 800Mhz Athlon with Windows 98,” he recalls. “My cousin installed Winamp in it and gave me some MP3s to play.…

01 First of all, press the power button on the back of the device to turn it on. The screen will remain blank while Raspberry Pi boots directly into the Linamp UI. Once done, it’s ready for the selection and playing of music. 02 Touch the PL or Eject button in the UI and you’ll go to the Playlist view. A file browser lets you navigate the Raspberry Pi filesystem, starting at the ~/Music folder by default. Songs can be stored on a home server or USB drive. 03 Select music files and click a button to add them to the playlist then start playing your fabulous tracks. The track information is displayed along with the bitrate and sample rate and there’s a real-time bar spectrum analyser.…