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The MagPi

Good morning folks! How are we all doing today?

Working on any Raspberry Pi or Pico projects? Send us a photo and it might end up in the mag - speaking of which, 150 is out this week!

#MagPiMonday
Jan 27, 2025, 09:48 AM·Public·Web
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あっきぃ

@themagpi Hi !
I bought Raspberry Pi 5 16GB RAM to replace part of home server.
I installed Docker and migrated a bunch of containers from my home server to my Pi 5, but I was unexpectedly unable to use up all the RAM! 😅

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Alberto Gonzalez :mastodon:

@themagpi Anywhere to buy in in Dundee?

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The MagPi

@agonzalez should be able to find us in Tesco, Sainsburys, or WH Smiths

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Alberto Gonzalez :mastodon:

@themagpi They used to have it in one of the Tesco stores but not anymore. I don't recall seeing it in Sainsburys or WH Smiths in Dundee recently either. 😢

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PenguinTutor (Stewart Watkiss)

@themagpi I've been reviewing my latest Pico project.

It didn't all go to plan, but I got it working in the end.

We learn more from the things that don't work than the things that do.

youtube.com/watch?v=v55MEt1fCW

YouTubeElectronics model railway project. What went wrong and debugging hardware and software bugs.By Penguin Tutor
#MagPiMonday
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mirobo Technology

@themagpi I've completed the latest variant of BEAPER Pico, a beginner programming and robotics circuit I designed for Raspberry Pi Pico. This one uses a ToF sensor instead of SONAR to sense objects.

A red, 3D-printed BEAPER Pico robot sitting on a wooden tabletop. The robot is controlled by a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W microcontroller (green) mounted in front of a 240x240 pixel LCD display on the BEAPER Pico PCB. The oval ToF (Time of Flight) range sensor is visible in the middle of the front of the robot, with optical floor sensor modules at the front corners connected by colourful extension cables to the main circuit board. A white drive wheel is visible at the back.
A top-down view of a red, 3D-printed BEAPER Pico robot sitting on a wooden tabletop, with one optical floor sensor module positioned over the edge of the table. The robot is controlled by a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W microcontroller (green) mounted above a 240x240 pixel LCD display on the BEAPER Pico PCB. The LCD is showing a simulated robot (bottom) with a range display reading "- - - mm" above it. The left simulated robot floor sensor shows a green LED indicating that it sees the floor, while the right simulated floor sensor shows a red LED indicating that it does not see the floor below it.
A top-right view of a red, 3D-printed BEAPER Pico robot sitting on a wooden tabletop. The robot is controlled by a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W microcontroller (green) mounted in front of a 240x240 pixel LCD display on the BEAPER Pico PCB. The bottom of the LCD is showing a simulated robot (back) with two green 'LEDs' showing the floor sensors sensing the table top. In front of the simulated robot on the LCD is a radar-like range display reading "282mm".
A view of all of the components used to build a BEAPER Pico robot sitting on a wooden tabletop. Clockwise from top-right there is a small ToF (Time of Flight) range sensor module, the BEAPER Pico PCB (printed circuit board), a red, 3D-printed BEAPER Bot robot chassis, two N20 gear motors and white wheels, a roller ball assembly, a grey, 3D-printed motor mount tool, a black battery holder, two sets of optical floor sensor module extension cables, a short (curved) QWIIC (I2C bus) extension cable, and in the middle, two optical floor sensor modules in red, 3D-printed mounts, and two red, 3D-printed motor mount clips.
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mirobo Technology

@themagpi Here's the ToF (Time of Flight) module doing its thing and letting BEAPER Pico maintain a safe distance from a human! 😃 🤖

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Dr Footleg (he/him)

@themagpi I published a detailed guide and code examples for setting up VSCode on Windows using the Raspberry Pi Pico extension to develop C++ code for the Pico and Pico2 (and boards using the RP2040 and RP2350 chips). It covers how to take one of the examples from the Pimoroni Pico libraries as a starting point. github.com/Footleg/rpi-pico/tr #MagPiMonday

Programs developed to run on the Raspberry Pi Pico and other boards using the RP2040 chip - Footleg/rpi-pico
GitHubrpi-pico/pico-cpp at main · Footleg/rpi-picoPrograms developed to run on the Raspberry Pi Pico and other boards using the RP2040 chip - Footleg/rpi-pico
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Dr Footleg (he/him)

@themagpi I was also delighted and humbled to find myself included in the 150 projects and people feature in the magazine when I opened it at breakfast this morning. Thank you for the recognition of my coding outreach work. Arguably my most impactful project.

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Dr Footleg (he/him)

@themagpi After my popular 3 body problem simulation post recently I have now improved the UI and pushed the code to GitHub for this running on the #Pico2 where a 24 body simulation runs happily at 33 fps. Enjoy!
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