YOU’LL NEED THIS A RASPBERRY PI Any model of Pi should work, from the first edition up. RASPBIAN Find everything you need at www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/. THE RASPBERRY PI is PERFECT for a vast number of single-serving uses, and it’s cheap enough and light enough on power usage that you can reasonably keep one running at all … Read more
Scripto is like a miniature laptop that offers a distraction free way to type on the go recipe Raspberry Pi Zero (with enclosure) Biodegradable Arboblend chassis LCD touchscreen Sunpartner transparent solar panel Swappable side panels Wi-Fi antenna 4 x AA batteries SD card reader USB power input Where did the original idea for Scripto stem from? … Read more
Maker Pierre Muth’s camera project is a creative mix of nostalgic Polaroid printing and high-tech digital capabilities Recipe Raspberry Pi Zero Thermal receipt printer Sharp memory LCD Official Pi camera module 3D-printed case How did you come up with the idea behind designing the original PolaPi and the PolaPi Zero? I was first inspired by a … Read more
We test a great-value Android media player that you can plug into your TV to stream all your entertainment from the web Smart TVs and set-top boxes bring a range of features to your living-room television including viewing catch-up TV, running media players such as Kodi and streaming your own content from other devices. However, … Read more
Asus’s new computer blows raspberries at its British rival What is it? A new single-board computer that’s being touted as a serious rival to the hugely popular (and British-made) Raspberry Pi. Made by Taiwanese company Asus, it runs a customized version of Linux – like the Pi – and is the same credit-card size. Remind … Read more
New features include offline Scratch 2.0 with easier GPIO access Raspberry Pi enthusiasts have some new toys to play with following the latest Raspbian OS update, which delivers offline Scratch 2.0 support with physical computing through enhanced GPIO support, new icons and the Thonny IDE. LEDs, buzzers, and input from buttons and sensors can be … Read more
When I wrote the first edition of the Raspberry Pi User Guide, I had an entire chapter dedicated to setting up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) stack and installing the popular WordPress blogging platform on top. It wasn’t exactly a straightforward process, and by the time the third edition of the book came around, … Read more
The UP Core offers superior performance than the Pi 3 on paper The Raspberry Pi has transformed the way millions of people around the world think about computing. Anything with that level of success will undoubtedly spawn numerous competitors, and despite nothing currently able to knock it off its perch at the top of the … Read more
The HiKey 960 is a high-end rival to the Pi Thanks to continuous updates from the Raspberry Pi Foundation, emerging competitors have often fallen by the wayside, unable to compete with both the feature set and price point of what each Pi model can offer. However, a new board from two of the world’s biggest … Read more
Apple Watch is the world’s best-looking smartwatch. Sure, that’s not really surprising given the clunky competition, but Apple has come up trumps with its first smartwatch. The worlds of fashion and tech have very much collided, and that’s exactly what Apple intended. It’s an object of lust that consumers will buy because it looks gorgeous, … Read more
Fullbright, tackles sci-fi and isolation in Tacoma, its next exploration gameJust two years ago, Fullbright was getting ready to launch its debut game, Gone Home. Back then, three members of the four-person development team were living in a house together, working from the basement to create a game they weren’t sure anybody wanted. Could a … Read more
David Hayward goes North, West, Down, Get Sword… Although the latest graphical masterpieces are a wonder to behold, there’s a lot to be said for simply using your own imagination and playing a clever, well written text adventure game. Text adventures were once as popular as any platformer, 3D space game or arcade conversion. There … Read more