diy projects
A Raspberry Pi Zero Cyberdeck That Fits Inside an Altoids Tin
A maker packed a Raspberry Pi Zero, a 2-inch LCD, and a hand-soldered keyboard into a mint tin. Here is how the pocket cyberdeck…
diy projects
SPOKE: The RP2040 Touch Controller That Plays Music From Fruit
The SPOKE is a CD-shaped RP2040 board with 27 capacitive touch pads that turns copper tape, pencil lines, or even fruit into a playable…
diy projects
This Giant 16×2 Character Display Runs on an RP2040 and 1,000 LEDs
A maker rebuilt the classic 16×2 character LCD at 7x scale using 1,000+ addressable LEDs and an RP2040 that still speaks I2C to any…
microcontrollers
Luxonis M8 Box: An RP2040 That Wires Edge AI to Machines
An RP2040 runs the I/O on Luxonis' new M8 Box, letting an edge AI camera flip 16 A relays and drive a CAN bus…
esp32 & esp8266
Get Full-HD Video From a Raspberry Pi Pico or ESP32 Over USB
A new library pushes full-HD 1920x1080 video at 60Hz from a Raspberry Pi Pico or ESP32 using a $20 USB display adapter and just…
microcontrollers
ChronoWatch X2040: An RP2040 Smartwatch That Just Tells Time
An RP2040 and a Waveshare round touchscreen become a distraction-free smartwatch, coded in C on the Pico SDK with custom touch handling and swappable…
diy projects
AirMeter: Stream an AN870 Multimeter’s LCD to Your Browser
A hacker tapped a cheap AN870 multimeter's LCD lines with an RP2040 and streamed live readings to any browser over 433 MHz. Here's how…
diy projects
Acid Drip: Build a Portable RP2040 TB-303 Acid Synth Clone
Maker Marcus Dunn cloned the legendary Roland TB-303 around an RP2040 and Mozzi - a portable acid synth with a drum machine you can…
diy projects
Adafruit Feather Builds: A GPS Compass and a Pocket Game Console
A GPS compass that always points you home and a Feather-powered handheld game console - broken down into stackable, weekend-friendly maker builds.
news & releases
Python Projects for Raspberry Pi: PIO, Sensors, and ML on Pico
Ben Everard's new book Python Projects for Raspberry Pi takes you past blinking LEDs into PIO, I2C sensors, and on-device machine learning on Pico.
3d printing
Build This Coin-Sized RP2040 Media Controller for Your Desk
A maker shrank a full media controller down to coin size with an RP2040-Zero and CircuitPython. Here's how the tiny plug-and-play knob works.
diy projects
RP2040 Wristwatch Tells Time With a Vintage VU Meter Needle
Meet the one-needle wristwatch that pairs a vintage VU meter with a Raspberry Pi RP2040 to show time, date, and day across printed analog…