There are many useful things you can do with a Raspberry Pi Pico (opens in new tab), as our listing of the best Raspberry Pi Projects (opens in new tab) underlines. However, here’s one we admit we’d never thought of: detecting radiation. Physicist Matthias Rosezky, AKA Nuclear Phoenix (opens in new tab), whose work has…
Maker and game developer Kayden has created a pocket-sized gaming handheld using our favorite microcontroller, the Raspberry Pi Pico, and has housed it in one of the most interesting and green-friendly containers: an old Altoids tin. Kayden has appropriately dubbed his creation the mintyPico, and demonstrates not only the final product but also shared a…
The developer and mastermind behind the Needle Nose Pliers blog is using a Raspberry Pi Pico to drive a custom audio spectrum analyzer. This project uses the Pico to process audio input and output a visualization of the sound it detects to a small OLED screen in real-time. This project is essentially the same sort…
Chances are that you have worked with the insides of some electronics. It may have been in school, or some tinkering at home so it is highly likely you will understand the basics. But have you ever prototyped your own electronic circuit? This is where breadboards become immensely useful. Breadboards are affordable and temporary devices…
If your Raspberry Pi projects are boring you to sleep, this Pico-powered alarm clock created by Vernon over at NerdCave is sure to wake you up! Using our favorite microcontroller, it features an LCD screen, buttons for controlling and setting the clock, is housed inside a custom-designed case and even accepts DC input for power.…
It’s no secret that we love Raspberry Pi projects here at Tom’s Hardware. That’s why we’re excited to share this portable pocket-sized Pi Zero 2 W cyberdeck from maker Chris Remboldt designed for creating even more fun Pi projects. According to Remboldt, the idea was to make something easy to take with him for Python…
In the 1980s, the boom in home computers saw machines from Atari, Apple, Commodore, Acorn, Sinclair et al all looking to introduce computing to a generation. In an example of history repeating itself we saw the emergence of the Raspberry Pi in the 2010s. But as Raspberry Pi and Python now go hand-in-hand for this…
There’s only one way to get ready for the potential cyberpunk future that awaits us, and it’s clearly with this Raspberry Pi project from robotics developer and microelectronics expert Kevin McAleer. With a fancy neopixel ring and Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller, these 3D-printed cyber glasses talk the talk and walk the walk with cyberpunk style.…
There’s nothing quite as illuminating as controlling a matrix panel with a Raspberry Pi. It’s like having your own personal marquee for displaying whatever you want from messages and notifications to videos and even games. But what really drives a good Pi project home is high-quality performance like this RP2040-powered matrix project developed by DeVayu…
Monitoring your 3D-Printer with a Raspberry Pi is nothing new, thanks to applications like OctoPrint. However, maker Kutluhan Aktar managed to tackle the process himself using a microcontroller with his Raspberry Pi Pico-powered 3D printer monitor. This project connects the Pico to the internet to relay notifications about the data it tracks and is housed…