Where do you get 15 Raspberry Pi books for less than the price of a single Pico W?
Raspberry Pi Press has teamed up with Humble Bundle again, and the deal runs from 10 November to 1 December 2026 (7pm GMT, which is 3am on 2 December in Manila). You name your price. The entry tier starts at £4, roughly $5 or around PHP 300, and the £19 tier (about $25) unlocks all 15 titles. Buying the same books separately would cost about $341. Part of what you pay goes to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, the charity arm that funds Code Clubs and free classroom resources, so a teacher stocking a school library is also paying for someone else’s first lesson.
What is actually in the bundle?
Five of the books came out this year. The headline title is the Raspberry Pi Guide to Cyberdecks 2027, a Humble Bundle exclusive until its official release in early 2027. Cyberdecks are small, portable, hand-built computers: a Pi, a small display, a physical keyboard, and a case you design yourself. The Guide to Retro Gaming covers handheld builds and full arcade cabinets. The Official Annual 2027 packs 200 pages of tutorials pulled from Raspberry Pi Official Magazine, covering the Pi 5, Pi 500+, Pi Zero 2 W, and the Pico. The Book of Making 2027 is a project anthology (underwater rover, wordsearch clock, digital jukebox), and AI Projects with Raspberry Pi walks through running vision models on the CPU and on the AI HAT+ and AI HAT+ 2 accelerators. The Official Beginner’s Guide rounds out the set for anyone who has never typed sudo apt update.
Is it useful for a thesis or a robotics club?
The files are PDF and ePub with no DRM, so you can load them onto a shared lab PC, a phone, or a classroom tablet without licence headaches. Every title is Raspberry Pi Press, meaning the code snippets target Raspberry Pi OS and MicroPython on the Pico, with GPIO pinouts drawn for the standard 40-pin header. If your capstone involves a camera, the AI Projects book is the most direct route to a working object-detection demo on a Pi 5 without a GPU. For a first-year ECE student, the Beginner’s Guide plus the Annual is a full semester of breadboard exercises: blinking an LED off GPIO 17, reading a button through a pull-up resistor, driving a servo from the Pico‘s PWM pins. One gotcha: several projects assume a Pi 5 with 4GB or 8GB of RAM. A Pi 4 or Zero 2 W will still run most of the code, just slower.
Try it
Grab the bundle at humblebundle.com before 1 December, and read the original announcement on raspberrypi.com. Then pick one build from the Cyberdecks guide and price it out: a Pi Zero 2 W, a 3.5-inch SPI display, and a compact USB keyboard from circuit.rocks will put a first deck on your bench for under PHP 5,000.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which books are new in this Raspberry Pi Humble Bundle?
Five 2026 titles: the Guide to Cyberdecks 2027 (a bundle exclusive until early 2027), Guide to Retro Gaming, Official Annual 2027, Book of Making 2027, and AI Projects with Raspberry Pi. The other ten are earlier Raspberry Pi Press books such as the Official Beginner’s Guide.
How much does the bundle cost and what format are the books?
The lowest tier starts at £4 (about $5), and £19 (about $25) unlocks all 15 titles. Every book comes as a DRM-free PDF and ePub, so it reads on a lab PC, tablet, phone, or e-reader. The offer ends 1 December 2026 at 7pm GMT.
What will I learn if I work through these books?
Linux basics on Raspberry Pi OS, Python and MicroPython, wiring LEDs, buttons and servos to the 40-pin GPIO header, building a portable cyberdeck or a retro gaming handheld, and running computer vision models on a Pi 5 with or without the AI HAT+. That covers most of what a first robotics or capstone project needs.
