This column is from The MagPi issue 49 . You can download a PDF of the full issue for free or subscribe to receive the print edition in your mailbox or the digital edition on your tablet. All proceeds from the print and digital editions help the Raspberry Pi Foundation achieve its charitable goals
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Beyond the bookcase
It gives me great pleasure to announce that The MagPi, the official Raspberry Pi magazine, is now available – fully translated and localised – in Germany, thanks to a collaboration with our friends at CHIP .
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Hallo Deutschland! The MagPi magazine has arrived in Germany
Although this Thursday will see the release of issue 49 of The MagPi, we’re already hard at work putting together our 50th issue spectacular. As part of this issue we’re going to be covering 50 of the best Raspberry Pi projects ever and we want you, the community, to vote for the top 20.
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Vote for the top 20 Raspberry Pi projects in The MagPi!
Less than a month has passed since we released Hacking & Making in Minecraft and we’re back again with our seventh Essentials book! Simple Electronics with GPIO Zero is dedicated to helping you build your own electronics projects in easy steps – everything from push buttons to Raspberry Pi robots, and from laser-powered trip wires to motion-sensing alarms. Those GPIO pins aren’t as daunting as they might first appear! The book boasts 12 chapters and 100+ pages of GPIO Zero – but wait, hang on… just download the free PDF and get reading already! If you can’t grab it straight away, here are a few of the chapter highlights: Program LED lights Add push buttons to your project Build a motion-sensing alarm Create your own distance rangefinder Make a laser-powered tripwire Build a Raspberry Pi robot Create a motion-sensing alarm and much more! We think our latest Essentials book is a great introduction to using the GPIO pins on your Raspberry Pi and programming them with the fab GPIO Zero Python library. It unlocks a whole new world of potential for your projects and it’s much easier to learn than you might think! You can also buy Simple Electronics with GPIO Zero in our app for Android and iOS .
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New MagPi Essentials book: simple electronics
This column is from The MagPi issue 48 . You can download a PDF of the full issue for free or subscribe to receive the print edition in your mailbox or the digital edition on your tablet .
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Software, the unsung hero
We’re back again with yet another amazing book in our Essentials series. We know you love them, and we also know that a lot of you love Minecraft
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Mod Minecraft Pi with our latest Essentials books
Earlier this week, the brand new Raspberry Pi Camera Module v2 was revealed to the world, its headline feature being an 8-megapixel sensor. It’s been a few years since the original came out and the new camera is an excellent little upgrade to the existing model; you can find out all the details in our complete breakdown in Issue 45 of The MagPi magazine, which is out today.
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Learn all about the new Raspberry Pi Camera Module v2 in The MagPi 45
Geeky Gadgets Relaunched Raspberry Pi Magazine MagPi, Passes 1 Million Downloads Geeky Gadgets Recently when the Foundation launched the new Raspberry Pi Zero, the new small mini PC was given away as a free gift on the front of the magazine and as you can imagine sold-out very quickly.
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Relaunched Raspberry Pi Magazine MagPi, Passes 1 Million Downloads – Geeky Gadgets
Ars Technica Raspberry Pi Zero sells out within 24 hours Ars Technica The Pi Zero—the new £4 ($5) Raspberry Pi —has sold out in under 24 hours. The Raspberry Pi Foundation says that around 20,000 individual Pi Zeroes have been sold in the last day, along with a further 10,000 copies of the MagPi magazine which had a Pi ..
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Raspberry Pi Zero sells out within 24 hours – Ars Technica
Live coder, researcher, MagPi contributor and creator of the music live coding platform Sonic Pi , Sam Aaron has recently found the time to teach BBC Radio 1 and 1Xtra DJ MistaJam how to code music. Sam and MistaJam look at Bizet’s Carmen before working their magic on updating it and creating a new arrangement through live coding. If you are based in the UK then you can watch their session on the BBC website here . Live coding masterclass for DJ MistaJam from Sam Aaron with Sonic Pi If you are unable to watch the video there is no need to feel left out, Sam has provided the code from the session for you to play in Sonic Pi and experiment with yourself.
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DJ MistaJam and Sam Aaron compose using code