Raspberry Pi / Books & Magazines

Program your own Raspberry Pi projects! An updated guide to programming your own Raspberry Pi projects. Learn to create inventive programs and fun games on your powerful Raspberry Pi--with no programming experience required. This practical book has been revised to fully cover the new Raspberry Pi 4, including upgrades to the Raspbian operating system. Discover how to...

Microcontrollers, like RP2040 at the heart of Raspberry Pi Pico, are computers stripped back to their base essentials. You don't use monitors or keyboards, but program them to take their input from, and send their output to the input/output pins. Using these programmable connections, you can light lights, make noises, send text to screens, and much more. In Get...

MicroPython is a tiny open-source Python programming language interpreter that runs on microcontroller, originally written by Damien George (http://micropython.org/). With MicroPython you can write clean and simple Python code to control hardware instead of having to use complex low-level languages like C or C++ (what Arduino uses for programming). Its great for...

The Raspberry Pi User Guide, 4th Edition by Eben Upton and Gareth Halfacree contains everything the reader needs to know to get up and running on the Raspberry Pi. The fourth edition is updated for the latest revision of the Raspberry Pi Model B+! Written by Gareth Halfacree and Eben Upton, the co-creator of Raspberry Pi, this book shows how to: Install software and...

Coding for kids is cool with Raspberry Pi and this elementary guide! Even if your kids don't have an ounce of computer geek in them, they can learn to code with a Raspberry Pi and this wonderful book. Written for 11 to 15-year-olds and assuming no prior computing knowledge, this book uses the wildly successful, low-cost, credit-card-sized Raspberry Pi computer to...

No, this book doesn't have 472 pages of raspberry fruit pie recipes. But it does teach you basic principles to help you use your Raspberry Pi with new, developing technologies. It's a great addition to the Getting Started with Raspberry Pi book and is an excellent next step for your Raspberry Pi needs. The "recipes" in this book are all different tutorials on how to...

Raspberry Pi is taking off like a rocket! You can use this amazing, dirt-cheap, credit card-sized computers to learn powerful hardware hacking techniques as you build incredibly creative and useful projects! This complete, full-color guide requires absolutely no experience with either hardware hacking or computer programming. Colorful photos guide you through each...

Welcome to issue 17 of The MagPi - the premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. As you can see from the cover, issue 17 has gone all robotic! This issue features a great article from the team at Dexter Industries taking a look at their clever kit: the BrickPi. You may recognize the project from Kickstarter and the...

Discontinued - you can grab Programming the Raspberry Pi: Getting Started with Python - Third Edition - 2021 instead! What can you do with the Raspberry Pi, a low cost computer the size of a credit card? All sorts of things! If you’re learning how to program, or looking to build new electronic projects, this hands-on guide will show you just how valuable this...

Learn how to extend Minecraft and create a new gaming experience, by exploring the magical world of Minecraft programming! Adventures in Minecraft, like other books in the highly successful Adventures series, is written especially for 11- to 15-year-olds. With this book you will learn new programming skills while having fun with Minecraft! Minecraft programming...

Welcome to issue 15 of The MagPi - the premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. Are you bored of school holidays or just want some down time after a hard day at work? This month’s issue has something for everyone! The MagPi takes a look at the ‘Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator’ and reflects back at...

Welcome to issue 25 of The MagPi. The premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. The MagPi Issue 25: Enigma cipher. Also in this issue… Custom autopilot. PiBot robotics. WiFi sniffing. Time-lapse. MouseAir. Fish Dish. BitScope. BASIC. Java. About The MagPi - from The MagPi themselves! What we make We produce a...

Welcome to issue 26 of The MagPi. The premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. The MagPi Issue 26: Introducing the Model B+. Also in this issue… Smartdrive robot. PiBot robotics. FUZE BASIC. Magic wand. VoIP server. Mashberry. Pi canvas. BitScope. About The MagPi - from The MagPi themselves! What we make We...

What can you do with the Raspberry Pi, a low cost computer the size of a credit card? All sorts of things! If you’re learning how to program, or looking to build new electronic projects, this hands-on guide will show you just how valuable this flexible little platform can be. The Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ is the latest board for the minimalist Pi fan. Like the...

Welcome to issue 18 of The MagPi - the premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has just released the Pi NoiR, an adapted version of their camera with the infra-red filter removed. This month, there's a great article from Andrew Back of RS Components, where he takes you through the steps...

Welcome to issue 27 of The MagPi. The premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. The MagPi Issue 27: Build QR codes in Minecraft Also in this issue… Game console controllers. FUZE BASIC. Matboard. Using git. Ultrasonic range finder. About The MagPi - from The MagPi themselves! What we make We produce a magazine...

Welcome to issue 16 of The MagPi. The premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. It’s back... Skutter returns to the pages of The MagPi and this time it’s more sensitive! Stephen takes you in detail through expanding the number of inputs and outputs which can be controlled from your Raspberry Pi using I2C....

Welcome to issue 9 of The MagPi - the premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. This month The MagPi is very pleased to present an interview with Adafruit's very own founder Limor Fried! Issue 9 also contains hardware articles, setup instructions for RISCOS and Arch Linux operating systems and more programming...

Welcome to issue 28 of The MagPi. The premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. The MagPi Issue 28: Introducing OpenCV Also in this issue… FUZE BASIC. VoIP server. Arduberry. Using git. BitScope. About The MagPi - from The MagPi themselves! What we make We produce a magazine with the intent to help and offer...

Welcome to issue 11 of The MagPi - the premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. The Raspberry Pi computer opens up many opportunities. It can be used as a web server, print server and as a wireless access point. If the problem can be solved with a low power Linux computer it can be solved with a Raspberry Pi. This...

Welcome to issue 10 of The MagPi - the premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. In this month’s issue there is a great selection of hardware and software projects. The MagPi is pleased to present part 2 of the WebIOPi and backup articles, new programming languages and their regular Scratch and Python pages....

Welcome to issue 29 of The MagPi. The premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. The MagPi Issue 29: Scratch spacecraft Also in this issue… Temperature sensors. External storage. Project Curacao. BASIC robotics. Traffic light. Python GUI. A+ review. Using git. OpenCV. About The MagPi - from The MagPi...

Welcome to issue 12 of The MagPi - the premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. Issue 12 of The MagPi celebrates their first anniversary! What a year it has been! To mark this incredible achievement, Liz Upton from the Raspberry Pi Foundation has kindly agreed to be a guest writer for the magazine and has produced...

Welcome to Issue 19 of The MagPi - the premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. Are you bored of having your presents delivered by the post office? If you fancy a change, why not have your own Pi-powered quadcopter air drop them in? Andy Baker begins his series on building this flying machine. In this issue, he...

Welcome to issue 30 of The MagPi. The premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. The MagPi Issue 30: Enriching marine electronics Also in this issue… Electronic ping pong. PWM motor control. C++ inheritance. Introducing C#. Raspberry Pi 2. Maze Builder. Weaved IoT. Air Hockey. About The MagPi - from The MagPi...

Welcome to issue 13 of The MagPi - the premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. Welcome to the 13th issue of The MagPi! This month, the MagPi is proud and thankful to be able to showcase the super smart Amy Mather as she talks about Conway’s Game of Life, what it’s like being a young hacker and what she...

Welcome to issue 23 of The MagPi. The premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. The MagPi Issue 23: Sonic Pi 2.0 – get your groove on. Featured in this issue… High altitude measuring. Real world Minecraft. BrickPi and Scratch. XMPP Chat Server. Linux Tool Shed. 1-wire sensors. GrovePi. About The MagPi -...

Welcome to issue 14 of The MagPi - the premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. This month The MagPi begins their journey in introducing the newest module in the Raspberry Pi world, the camera, with a great guide written by James Hughes on setup and basic operation. The conclusion of this article will be found in...

Welcome to issue 24 of The MagPi. The premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. Featured in this issue: High altitude measurements. Basic oscilloscope. Picademy interview. Ysgol Bryn Elian. Project Curacao. Python Turtle. WiFi sniffing. C++ classes. About The MagPi - from The MagPi themselves! What we make We produce...