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 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 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 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 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...

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 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...

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 22 of The MagPi - the premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. Issue 22 kicks off with an article on solar tracking. Nathan and Nicholas introduce their amazing project, the ‘Reflective Solar Tracker’, a solar cell with the brains of a Raspberry Pi, capable of chasing the sun to improve energy...

Welcome to Issue 21 of The MagPi - the premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. To mark the Raspberry Pi’s second birthday, Issue 21 has a MagPi exclusive four page interview with Eben Upton reviewing the past two years and what the future holds for this credit card sized beauty. Also in this issue, Jacob, a...

Welcome to Issue 20 of The MagPi magazine - the premier Raspberry Pi magazine for beginners, experts, Pi-fanatics and the merely Pi-curious. After a massive response, the MagPi folks are pleased to write that the article series ‘Bake your own Pi filling’ is back by popular demand! In this article Martin Kalitis throws down the gauntlet by instructing how...

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 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 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 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 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...

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 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 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 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 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 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....

Sometimes you need to celebrate mistakes. Adafruit offers a fun and exciting stickers to celebrate achievement for electronics, science and engineering. We believe everyone should be able to be rewarded for learning a useful skill, a sticker is just one of the many ways to show and share. This is the "I learned something, Sparky the magic blue smoke monster showed...

Sometimes you need celebrate mistakes. Adafruit offers a fun and exciting "badges" of achievement for electronics, science and engineering. We believe everyone should be able to be rewarded for learning a useful skill, a badge is just one of the many ways to show and share. This is the "I learned something, Sparky the magic blue smoke monster showed me" badge for use...

LEO the Maker Prince teaches children (both young and old) about 3D printing by following Carla and LEO's journey through Brooklyn. LEO is a walking, talking robot who has the magical ability to to print (in plastic) any object that Carla draws. The other robots have their own special capabilities: H1-H0 prints in metal, Sinclair-10 can find and print objects from a...

If you'd like to get some LEDs or analog strips blinking for your costume, prop or project, but don't want to do any programming, you may want to try out the LED Magician! It's kinda like a pre-programmed Arduino designed for driving LEDs, and has many built-in effects. Note it doesn't work with 'smart' LEDs such as NeoPixels, DotStars, or other digital addressable...

The classic 'third hand tool,' as seen on every desk! We have one next to our Panavise jr, they complement each other well. This tool is good for holding small PCBs and wires for tinning or soldering to parts. Every part can rotate around in any way with thumbscrews and wingnuts.Two sturdy alligator clips for holding PCBs, wires, parts. 2.5" diameter 4x magnifying...

As electronics get smaller and smaller, you'll need a hand examining PCBs and this little TV-output microscope is the perfect tool. It's smaller and lighter than a large optical microscope but packs quite a bit of power in its little body. There's a 1.3 megapixel sensor inside and an optical magnifier that can adjust to about 25x (for basic PCB inspection) or 400x...

As electronics get smaller and smaller, you'll need a hand examining PCBs and this little USB microscope is the perfect tool. Its smaller and lighter than a large optical microscope but packs quite a bit of power in its little body. There's a 2 megapixel sensor inside and an optical magnifier that can adjust from 20x (for basic PCB inspection) to 220x (for detailed...

This is the FeatherWing Doubler - a prototyping add-on and more for all Feather boards. This is similar to our FeatherWing Proto except there are two! The magic of the Doubler comes when stacking a Feather and another board on top of the Doubler so you can work with both boards simultaneously side-by-side! In addition to the board the Doubler comes with: 1 Doubler...

This is the magic sauce in our 7-segment and matrix backpacks, now available in breadboard-friendly breakout board format. The HT16K33 is a neat little chip that has the ability to drive a multiplexed 16x8 matrix (that's 128 individual LEDs). The communication protocol is I2C so it uses only 2 pins, and you can have up to 8 selectable I2C addresses so thats a total...

As any engineer will tell you, 0.1uF ceramic capacitors are the magic fairy dust of electronics - sprinkle them over your circuit schematics for good luck! But seriously, a 0.1uF capacitor right next to the VCC pin of your chips will improve stability by filtering out power supply spikes and noise that can cause flaky behavior. We love these little guys, they have...

The magic of 3D printing is now more affordable and accessible than ever! Meet The Micro 3D Printer by M3D, the first truly consumer 3D printer. Sporting a compact design, user-friendly software, and replaceable print beds and nozzles, it’s perfect for beginners and experts alike. This is the Micro 3D Printer - Black - Retail Edition which is more like a...

Fast track your Android phone hardware development or just design cell-phone robots with the Arduino ADK! The Arduino ADK is a microcontroller board based on the powerful ATmega2560 (datasheet). It has a USB host interface to connect with Android based phones, and a power supply boost converter to charge up the phone from DC power while its plugged into the ADK We...

FirstScope pays tribute to the men and women who brought us one step closer to understanding the universe around us! In 1609, world-renowned Italian scientist, Galileo Galilei, introduced an elementary telescope to the growing astronomy community which sparked interest into the mysterious night sky for centuries to come. Four centuries later, Celestron offers the...

As electronics get smaller and smaller, you'll need a hand examining PCBs and this little USB microscope is the perfect tool. Its smaller and lighter than a large optical microscope but packs quite a bit of power in its little body. There's a high quality 640x480 camera sensor inside and an optical magnifier that can adjust from 5x (for basic PCB inspection) to 200x...

As electronics get smaller and smaller, you'll need a hand examining PCBs and this little USB microscope is the perfect tool. Its smaller and lighter than a large optical microscope but packs quite a bit of power in its little body. There's a high quality 640x480 camera sensor inside and an optical magnifier that can adjust from 20x (for basic PCB inspection) to 200x...

This is the FeatherWing Tripler - a prototyping add-on and more for all Feather boards. This is similar to our FeatherWing Proto except there are three! The magic of the Tripler comes when you want to connect your Feather to two other Feather Wings without needing any stacking headers! The Tripler comes with: 1 Tripler Wing PCB. 3 sets Feather Female Headers. The...

This is the FeatherWing Quad Side-by-Side - a prototyping add-on and more for all Feather boards. This is similar to our FeatherWing Proto except there are four! The magic of the Quad comes when you want to connect your Feather to three other Feather Wings without needing any stacking headers! The Quad comes with: 1 Quad Side-by-side Wing PCB. 4 sets Feather Female...

This is the FeatherWing Quad 2x2 - a prototyping add-on and more for all Feather boards. This is similar to our FeatherWing Proto except there are four! The magic of the Quad comes when you want to connect your Feather to three other Feather Wings without needing any stacking headers. The boards are all set up in a 2x2 grid, thus the name The Quad comes with: 1 Quad...

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...

Discontinued - you can grab the Black Magic Probe with JTAG Cable and Serial Cable - V2.3 instead! If you've got a modern ARM chip devboard you'll notice that it has one of those tiny 2x5 connectors on it. Those are SWD ports, and they're used when you need to program or debug an ARM chip like those on the Particle boards. So, say you want to get into the weeds on...

The Particle Shield Shield converts the footprint and pins of your Photon into that of an Arduino, allowing for use of existing Arduino shields and accessories. This shield converts the pin mapping of the Photon to the Arduino pin layout and provides a voltage translation of 3.3V to/from 5V. Note that Arduino libraries are not necessarily going to work without some...