Raspberry Pi Official Magazine

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

Welcome to Raspberry Pi Official Magazine

AI HAT+ 2 released • Run LLMs and VLMs locally on Raspberry Pi.

1GB Raspberry Pi 5 • New model introduced to offset price rise of LPDDR4.

Data Diode • One-way, secure data transfer without a traditional network connection.

Friends • Precarious-seeming graphical goings-on courtesy of Raspberry Pi impress Rosie Hattersley

SmartCoop: controlling chickens with Java • Reduce the effort to keep chickens safe, fed and watered on a hobby farm.

Chicken run

Solder fume extractor

Programming station

Cyberdeck

Kuensa

3D print • Breaking things purposefully in the pursuit of perfection

PROGRAM A ROBOT ARM

Part 04 Make a push-button music box • Use two or more tactile push buttons to play different sound samples

Part 07 Conquer the command line: predictable networking • Give the Raspberry Pi a permanent network address of its own

Unusual tools: marine epoxy • The emergency tool that you never knew you needed

Part 02 Object design with Python in FreeCAD • Use your programming skills to make printable 3D designs

Pioreactor: an automated Raspberry Pi bioreactor • Let's look at building a ‘Pioreactor’, an amazing project for running long automated bioreactor experiments

Part 02 Building a capable underwater rover • Last issue, we built a pipework chassis for a larger underwater rover. In this section, we look at creating drive control systems and a Raspberry Pi-powered underwater camera

Part 01 Object detection with Ultralytics YOLO26 on Raspberry Pi • Use Docker and Ultralytics YOLO to perform object detection on images and video

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) • Built to do military calculations, it was the first general-purpose digital computer

STARGAZING with Raspberry Pi • Build a Raspberry Pi night-sky setup and reach for the stars from your backyard.

KIT TO CONSIDER • Get the right equipment for your stellar adventure

READY TO BUY KITS

ASTRO-PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECTS • Stand on the shoulders of giants when building a Raspberry Pipowered all-sky telescope. Others have gone before you

TIPS AND RESOURCES

Fusion HAT+ • An upgraded robotics board with added voice control.

Pitower Gen 1 • A mini PC case that emulates a full desktop case, but still leaves room for Raspberry Pi-specific features.

Powered by Raspberry Pi

Power solutions

Witty Pi 5 HAT+

Mosfetti

Raspberry Pi Relay Board

Automation HAT

UPS HAT For Raspberry Pi Zero

PoE+ HAT

10 amazing: advanced retro gaming projects • Do more than just play old games with these incredible retro gaming builds

Richard Kirby • An automation engineer who discovered the joy of quick prototyping on Raspberry Pi, leading to organising one of the longest-running community events

Maker Monday • Amazing projects direct from social media!

Your Letters

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

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Let's get stuck into 2026 • Lucy Hattersley is limbering up for an eventful year ahead