Raspberry Pi Official Magazine

The MagPi The official Raspberry Pi magazine, showcasing amazing projects from our community

Welcome to Raspberry Pi Official Magazine

A security update for Raspberry Pi OS • Raspberry Pi OS 6.2 lands with a small but significant change: passwordless sudo is now disabled by default.

Raspberry Pi Connect: tags, required 2FA, and a mobile keyboard • Three new updates to Raspberry Pi Connect make managing fleets of devices a great deal easier.

AI Arcade • You won’t run out of retro-inspired games to play with this console.

Box of games

Stewart Warner radio retrofit • Allow a broken vintage radio to regain its voice as an internet streamer.

Point Nemo’s CanSat • A team of students create a Raspberry Pi spacecraft and rover the size of a can of soda. Rob Zwetsloot explores this final frontier

The mission

Sequino

Raspberrarium

Poor man’s Polaroid camera

Mermaid in the shell

3D print • Mathematics, with the added therapeutic benefit of a clicky display

Part 01 Make music with Raspberry Pi • We look at a clutch of the best tools for making and mastering music in your Raspberry Pi-powered home studio

Part 01 Set up OpenClaw on Raspberry Pi • Turn Raspberry Pi into a powerful AI assistant that can do anything on your computer. And keep it safely contained

Part 01 Design and build an RP2040powered 4-axis foam cutter • Cutting foam with a computercontrolled hot wire is a fantastic tool to have. Let’s build a 4-axis machine to do this accurately and repeatedly

Part 05 Object design with Python in FreeCAD: make mosaics • Discover how to process images for 3D-printing as coloured mosaics

Sew a sensory puppet • Make a puppet and then make it talk!

Make old cameras useful with 3D printing • Make light-tight film holders for use with 120-year-old cameras and then take pictures

Part 10 EDVAC, UNIVAC, & Princeton IAS • The computer that never was, and its offspring

Part 11 Conquer the command line: start and stop • We take a look at scripts to manage the way Raspberry Pi OS starts and shuts down

Part 07 Make a range finder • Link an ultrasonic distance sensor and sevensegment display to measure distances

DOS & DON’TS • Get the best from your Raspberry Pi computer with this clear, friendly advice

LED lighting • Shining a light on the best LED lighting controllers and displays

Wireless Plasma Kit

RGB LED Matrix for Raspberry Pi Pico (64×32)

Interstate 75 W

Triple LED Matrix Bonnet for Raspberry Pi

Tiny FX W

Pico 2 W Unicorn

Pironman 5 Pro Max • This ultra-cool case adds a touchscreen, speakers, and twin NVMe slots.

Powered by Raspberry Pi • From aerial display specialists to prototyping tools, Raspberry Pi-accredited hardware enables it all. Rosie Hattersley highlights what’s in the Powered By Pi roster

10 amazing: game controllers • Up your game(play) with these Raspberry Pi compatible joypads and sticks

Steve Davies • Meet the new member of the documentation team at Raspberry Pi

Maker Monday • Amazing projects direct from social media!

Flight Watch • Using Raspberry Pi Zero to figure out what’s flying overhead

Your Letters

Community Events Calendar • Find out what community-organised Raspberry Pi-themed events are happening near you…

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Versatility • Scaling your Raspberry Pi, and your expectations, when making a fun project with Rob Zwetsloot