We have some important news to share about HackSpace: Issue 81 was the last issue of HackSpace as a standalone magazine, and HackSpace has become part of The MagPi, the official Raspberry Pi magazine. Starting with issue 145, We’ll be adding pages to The MagPi to make room for the stories and tutorials you’ve come to expect from HackSpace.
By Andrew Gregory. Posted
We’ve been spending a lot of time looking at Raspberry Pi Pico over the last few weeks, but you don’t need to be an established computer manufacturer to take an existing chip and a few components and combine them on a custom PCB... Bingo! You’ve got a development board.
It sounds simple, and in theory, it is, but in practice, it isn’t – there’s a huge amount about this to get right, which is why we say yay for the likes of SparkFun, Adafruit, et al., who make things for us.
Benjamin Shockley has created his own line of ARM Cortex boards that you can program in either Arduino or CircuitPython. More important than that, they show that when you’re not trying to maximise manufacturing efficiencies, you can make boards any shape you want.
Vintage smart radio
All the magic of this build is on the inside
Useless robot
A lot of machines are useless; this one is useless by design
Solar water bottle
Treating water with UV light kills harmful bacteria
ePiPod
Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W adds computing power without breaking the bank here
Arc reactor alarm clock
Wake up like a superhero
Cyber clock
Is it a mouse? Is it a car? No, it's a clock!
