The MagPi Magazine, an official Raspberry Pi magazine, provides great selection of hardware, software, example project and programming articles for Raspberry Pi enthusiast.
In this issue, Michael Giles explains how to turn your Raspberry Pi into a magic wand with a fun hardware project that demonstrates the persistence of vision effect, while John Mahorney from Suncoast Science Center in Florida shows how a Raspberry Pi is used to display dynamic art. Big news this month is the launch of the Model B+ and MagPi writer Aaron Shaw has all the details for you on page 22.
Robotics is always a popular theme and Harry Gee continues on from last month’s article and shows how to add speech, voice control and facial recognition to your robot. Additionally, Rishi Deshpande describes how to use the SmartDrive controller board to easily control high current motors.
Features
Magic Wand
Persistence of vision: build a magic wand with an accelerometer
Pi Canvas Digital Art Display
Display dynamic art using a Raspberry Pi
SmartDrive Robot
Coding a remote-controlled robot with the SmartDrive add-on board
Mashberry
Homebrewing with the Raspberry Pi
PiBot
Part 2: Add the power of speech, hearing and vision to your robot
Raspberry Pi Model B+
All the details on the latest addition to the Raspberry Pi range
Bitscope:
Part 2: Electronic measurement with the BitScope oscilloscope add-on board
Voice Over IP Server
Using Asterisk to implement a low cost telephone system
Fuze Basic
Part 2: Variables, procedures and sprites
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About The MagPi Magazine:
The MagPi was created – like most great Raspberry Pi projects – by a group of like-minded enthusiasts from the Raspberry Pi.org forum. Their goal was to make a Raspberry Pi magazine for the whole community could enjoy (and they succeeded).The magazine is now published by Raspberry Pi as the official Raspberry Pi magazine.
