Assembling your Picade

Learn how to assemble and set up your Picade!

Intermediate / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with HyperPixel 4.0

Learn how to connect and setup your HyperPixel 4.0

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with scroll:bit and MakeCode

Learn how to use your scroll:bit with Microsoft MakeCode

Beginner / micro:bit

Control Philips Hue lights automatically with Enviro pHAT

Use Enviro pHAT to automatically turn your Philips Hue lights on or off depending on how dark it is

Intermediate / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with NFC

Learn how to read and write your NFC tags

Beginner / LEDs

Be Still, My Beating Heart

Woo the geek in your life with this heartbeat effect!

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Picade Software Setup

Learn how to set up the software on your Picade

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with Automation HAT and pHAT

Learn how to install and get started with your Automation HAT or pHAT

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Make a timelapse with OctoCam

Use a Pi Zero with camera to take timelapse images

Intermediate / Raspberry Pi

Santabot Xmas Timer

Count down to Xmas with a Santabot!

Beginner / Pi Zero

Make a Cute Alarm Clock with Mood light

Use the Mood Light Kit to make a kids' colour clock

Beginner / Kids

Say Anything with a Speaker pHAT

Make a tiny mixtape to hold aloft!

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Making a Festive Greetings Card

How to use LEDs and copper tape to make a simple circuit

Beginner / Kids

Getting Started with Bearables

Learn how to use your Bearables badges and sensors

Beginner / Wearables

Build an Itty Bitty Beat Box

Combine pHAT Stack, Speaker pHAT, Piano HAT, and Drum HAT into an Itty Bitty Beat Box

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with BME680 Breakout

Learn how to solder and use your BME680 breakout

Intermediate / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with pHAT Stack

Learn how to solder and use your pHAT Stack

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Halloween Explorer HAT Eyes

How to use an Explorer HAT to make squishy keys

Beginner / Kids

Beginning with Blinkt!

Blinkt! tutorial in bite-sized pieces

Beginner / Kids

Building the Tiny 4WD

Build tutorial for the Tiny 4WD robot, including software install

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Setting up your PiGlow

PiGlow tutorial for beginners

Beginner / Kids

The Ultimate Guide to Soldering

Everything you need to know about soldering!

Intermediate / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with Inky pHAT

Learn how to install and get started with your Inky pHAT

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with Touch pHAT

Learn how to install and get started with your Touch pHAT

Intermediate / Raspberry Pi

Internet Radio on your Pirate Radio

Turn your Pirate Radio Kit into an internet radio

Beginner / LEDs

motionEye OS on your OctoCam

Install and set up motionEye OS on your OctoCam

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Assembling OctoCam

Learn how to assemble your OctoCam kit

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with pHAT BEAT

Learn how to install and get started with your pHAT BEAT

Beginner / LEDs

Controlling IKEA Trådfri Lights from your Pi

Learn how to talk to and control IKEA Trådfri smart lights from your Pi

Intermediate / LEDs

Setting up a Headless Pi

No display, keyboard, or mouse? No problem!

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with Four Letter pHAT

Learn how to assemble, install, and get started with your Four Letter pHAT

Beginner / LEDs

Streaming Spotify to your Pi

Use Mopidy, Mopidy-Spotify, and Iris to stream Spotify to your Raspberry Pi

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with Unicorn pHAT

Learn how to install and get started with your Unicorn pHAT

Beginner / LEDs

Getting Started with Scroll pHAT HD

Learn how to install and get started with your Scroll pHAT HD

Beginner / LEDs

Streaming Airplay to your Pi

Stream music with Airplay from your iPhone to your Raspberry Pi

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Assembling Mood Light

Learn how to assemble your Mood Light kit

Intermediate / LEDs

Assembling Scroll Bot

Learn how to assemble your Scroll Bot kit

Intermediate / LEDs

Assembling Pirate Radio

Learn how to assemble your Pirate Radio kit

Intermediate / Raspberry Pi

Assembling Speaker pHAT

Learn how to assemble your Speaker pHAT

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with Picade HAT

Learn how to connect up your Picade HAT and install the software

Intermediate / Raspberry Pi

Fitting hammer headers

Learn how to fit our solderless hammer headers to your Pi Zero or pHAT

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with Rainbow HAT in Python

Learn how to install and get started with your Rainbow HAT in Python

Beginner / Internet of Things

Assembling Pan-Tilt HAT

How to assemble your Pan-Tilt HAT

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Building your Pibow

Safely ensconse your Pi in a Pibow!

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Build a firefly light

Use a Pi Zero, Explorer pHAT and Zero LiPo to build a pretty firefly light

Intermediate / Raspberry Pi

A super-simple way to run scripts on boot

Use cron to run scripts on boot on your Raspberry Pi

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with Mote

Learn how to install and get started with your Mote

Beginner / LEDs

Using Mote with Homekit and Siri

Control Mote with your iPhone using Homekit and Siri

Intermediate / LEDs

Getting Started with Blinkt!

Learn how to install and get started with your Blinkt!

Beginner / LEDs

MicroPython on the ESP IoT pHAT

Learn how to flash and use MicroPython on the ESP IoT pHAT

Intermediate / Raspberry Pi

Assembling Micro Dot pHAT

How to assemble and solder Micro Dot pHAT

Beginner / LEDs

Getting Started with Micro Dot pHAT

Learn how to install and get started with your Micro Dot pHAT

Beginner / LEDs

Scroll pHAT/pHAT DAC spectrum analyser

Build a spectrum analyser with Scroll pHAT and pHAT DAC

Advanced / pHATs

Assembling the Pi Zero CCTV Kit

How to assemble the Pi Zero CCTV Kit

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Getting started with the ESP IoT pHAT

Learn how to communicate with your ESP IoT pHAT over serial

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Getting started with Enviro pHAT

Learn how to install and get started with your Enviro pHAT

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Display-O-Tron Breakout with Raspberry Pi

How to use the Display-O-Tron breakout board with Raspberry Pi

Intermediate / Display-O-Tron 3000

Assembling the Display-O-Tron Breakout

How to assemble and solder the Display-O-Tron breakout board

Beginner / Display-O-Tron 3000

Soldering Pi Zero pHATs

A quick tutorial on soldering Pi Zero pHATs

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Pibow Zero Assembly

A quick guide to assembling the Pibow Zero for the new Pi Zero with camera connector

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Setting up pHAT DAC on your Raspberry Pi Zero

This guide will help you get pHAT DAC up and running on your Raspberry Pi

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Explorer HAT pro 8-bit shift register

Learn how to control LEDs with Explorer HAT Pro and an 8-bit shift register

Advanced / Explorer HAT

Getting Started with Piano HAT

Learn how to install and use your Piano HAT

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Wireless Keyboards

Learn how to set up and use our wireless keyboard options on your Raspberry Pi

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi Camera Lenses

Learn how to use our camera lens kit to spruce up your Raspberry Pi Camera photography

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Make rainbows with Unicorn HAT

Learn how to use Unicorn HAT and HSV colour to make awesome rainbows

Intermediate / Unicorn HAT

Controlling Display-o-Tron with NodeJS

Learn how to control Display-o-Tron 3000 and HAT with NodeJS on your Raspberry Pi

Advanced / Display-O-Tron 3000

Getting Started with the Raspberry Pi 7" Touchscreen LCD

Learn the ins and outs of the Raspberry Pi LCD

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Assembling Picade

Complete build instructions for the Picade kit

Intermediate / Electronics

Getting Started with Bash on the Raspberry Pi

Learn what Bash is and how to use it to your advantage

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Python Lists

Everything you'll need to know to get the most out of Python Lists on your Raspberry Pi

Intermediate / Python

An Introduction To Python

An introduction to Python, the very basics you'll need to Python like a pro

Intermediate / Python

Python Ranges

Everything you'll need to know to get the most out of Python Ranges on your Raspberry Pi

Intermediate / Python

Python Arguments

An exploration of arguments in Python

Intermediate / Python

Inline Resistor Network

Learn how to create a network of 8 inline resistors, great for building tidy mini breadboard circuits

Beginner / LEDs

The Resistor LED

Learn how to pair an LED and a resistor into a super useful circuit debugging companion.

Beginner / LEDs

Low-level Propeller Assembly on Propeller HAT

Learn how to use the native language of the Propeller to get the most out of your board

Advanced / Propeller HAT

Getting Started with Unicorn Paint

Learn how to pixel paint mini works of art on your Unicorn HAT using your Pi and a web browser

Beginner / Unicorn HAT

Explorer HAT Pro PIN entry system

Learn how to use Explorer HAT Pro to build your own PIN entry system

Beginner / Explorer HAT

Programming the Adafruit Trinket from your Raspberry Pi

The Trinket is a small, cheap microprocessor you can program from your Raspberry Pi

Intermediate / Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi System Stats

Learn how to build a simple website to serve system stats for your Pi

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Getting Started with Unicorn HAT

Learn how to use Unicorn HAT, the vibrant 8x8 pixel colour display for your Pi

Beginner / Unicorn HAT

Using Unicorn HAT in IDLE

Learn how to use Unicorn HAT in IDLE, the Python IDE

Beginner / Unicorn HAT

Getting Started with Display-o-Tron 3000

Learn how to install your Display-o-Tron 3000

Beginner / Display-O-Tron 3000

Introducing Voltage Regulators

Learn the basics of voltage regulators and how and where to use them in your circuits.

Intermediate / Raspberry Pi

Making a Minecraft Thermometer

Learn how to use Explorer HAT Pro and an Analog temperature sensor to make a thermometer in Minecraft

Intermediate / Explorer HAT

Writing your first SPIN program

A brief introduction to SPIN, the language of the Propeller, and your first Blink program

Intermediate / Propeller HAT

Explorer HAT Pro Lights Out Game

Learn how to create a fun little version of the Lights Out game using Explorer HAT Pro

Beginner / Explorer HAT

Finding your Raspberry Pi's IP Address

To connect remotely to your Pi, you may need something called an IP address. Here's how to look it up!

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Keeping your Raspberry Pi up-to-date

Keeping your Pi up to date is important if you want to avoid problems. Learn how here!

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Driving a 4-digit, 7-segment Display from A+, B+ or Pi 2

Learn how to drive a 4-digit, 7-segment display from just those extra pins on the 40-way header.

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Add a Serial/UART breakout to your Pi

Serial is great for debugging and configuring on the go, but having to remove an add-on board to get at the right pins is a pain. Let's add some more!

Intermediate / Raspberry Pi

Multicore SPIN programming on Propeller HAT

Learn how to use the Propeller's multi-core architecture to your advantage

Intermediate / Propeller HAT

Getting started with Propeller IDE

A step-by-step guide to installing Propeller IDE

Intermediate / Propeller HAT

Using counters in SPIN

An introduction to Counters, one of the Propellers key hardware features.

Intermediate / Propeller HAT

Passing parameters in Propeller Assembly

A detailed guide to passing one or more params into a Propeller Assembly ( PASM ) program running on Propeller HAT.

Advanced / Propeller HAT

Controlling Your Robot: USB HID/Wireless Keyboards

This article walks you through controlling a Pi-powered Robot with a USB HID Keyboard or similar USB input device.

Intermediate / Raspberry Pi

Soldering Tips

Learn all the tricks of the trade, from holding things steady while soldering, to joining wires

Beginner / Raspberry Pi

Let There Be Light

Lighting an LED isn't as simple as it looks. Find out how to calculate the correct resistor values and identify the Anode and Cathode of an LED.

Beginner / Electronics

The Humble Shift Register

Learn how to use the Shift Register, a great starter IC that turns 3 IO pins into 8 or more!

Beginner / Electronics

Building a Raspberry Pi Pan/Tilt Face Tracker

Learn how to combine a servo driver, pan-tilt kit and Raspberry Pi camera into your own diligent face tracking machine.

Advanced / Raspberry Pi

Anatomy of a Mini Breadboard

The breadboard is one of the most essential tools in a makers amada. Find out a little about its humble origins, and exactly how to use one.

Beginner / Electronics

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Raspberry Pi   86

Pi Zero   37

LEDs   36

Python   19

pHATs   10

Electronics   7

Propeller HAT   6

Parallax Propeller   6

Micro-controller   6

Kids   5

Festive Makes   5

Explorer HAT   5

Unicorn HAT   4

Display-O-Tron 3000   4

SPIN   3

Internet of Things   3

Hacking   3

Arduino   3

Wearables   2

Robotics   2