It's Christmas, and the team at MagPi Towers are benchmarking a lucky-dip mix of Raspberry-flavoured sweets. This feature first appeared in The MagPi 52. First up had to be Nerds. A hit of pure sugar, followed by a fresh minty afterglow with a mild taste. It's often said that a camel is a horse designed […]

We get to see a lot of Pi-powered robots, but rarely (if ever) one crammed with quite so many features as Mambot. The creation of software developer Ahmed Al-Faris, it features a manipulator arm, five control methods (including autonomous), video streaming, Alexa voice interaction, obstacle avoidance system, and the ability to read text. Not only […]

The second-generation pi‑top laptop is a device that has been long awaited by the Raspberry Pi team. While the first attempt was an interesting home-brew attempt to 3D-print a laptop, this is the point where it goes professional. Subscribe to our YouTube channel for more video reviews! Inside the box you get a pi-top housing, […]

Every Christmas, we welcome a huge number of brand new Raspberry Pi users. This month's Raspberry Pi for Newbies feature is the perfect welcome for newcomers. Read all about it in issue 65 of The MagPi – The Official Raspberry Pi magazine, out in stores today. Raspberry Pi for Newbies The perfect introduction to setting-up […]

Holy GPIO! Will the evil Dr Bluescreen succeed with her villainous plan, or will The Founders rescue the children of Earth from a fate worse than Excel? Find out in the first ever Raspberry Pi Annual! This surprise Christmas present for subscribers of The MagPi is “packed with all the great word and picture puzzles […]

We've got a fantastic prize for our readers this month. The Pi POE Switch HAT kits enable you to power a Raspberry Pi directly from an Ethernet network connection. It's the ideal kit for setting up self-contained network enabled projects. This prize is courtesy of Pi Supply. Click here to learn more about the Pi […]

A Raspberry Pi teasmade was taken for a test run by speed junkie Guy Martin in Channel 4’s recent documentary, Guy Martin Versus the Robot Car. The Pi powered tea-making robot, ingeniously named R2‑Tea2, was designed and built by Huddersfield’s Running in the Halls (RITH), a design and development studio whose “primary focus is designing […]

Ever wonder what your Raspberry Pi was thinking? This tutorial shows how you can ask your Pi questions no matter where it is in the world. Learn how to send questions through SMS to your Raspberry Pi and get witty answers back. You’ve probably connected your Pi to the internet through Ethernet or WiFi, but […]

There are plenty of home security cameras currently on the market, many allowing you to stream live footage over the internet and receive alerts whenever someone wanders past. But rather than buy one of those, two makers, Aaron Tainter and Davis Lau, spied an opportunity. Combining a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a Pi Camera Module, and […]

If you watched our video on the Pimoroni Unicorn HAT HD a little while back, or keep an eye on our Twitter feed, you’ll know that our features editor Rob was using the Unicorn HAT HD to count down to a forthcoming holiday. Now that’s been and gone, it’s time to replace it with something […]

The NASA robot artists is a robotics arm project. A hand reaches out to a shiny gold box emblazoned with the NASA logo. At the press of a button, the connected robotic arm springs into life, lowering a blue Sharpie pen onto a paper pad to draw the circular outline of the famous logo, then […]

When brothers Rob and Mart Drake-Knight struggled like mad to find a job in 2008, they could so easily have reached a point where they would have to sell the shirts off their backs. Luckily they decided to spend £200 setting up an environmental clothing company on the Isle of Wight instead, growing it from […]