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Issue 275 (May 2021) - Raspberry Pi Projects

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Enjoy the best plug-and-play Raspberry Pi projects of 2021! Making doesn’t have to be hard, so we dig up awesome builds you can make in a day. Armed with a mighty Raspberry Pi, a blank SD card, a dollop of internet and a pile of parts we explore multi-room audio, machine learning, retro gaming, the Pi Pico, Bitcoin chains and more!

PLUS: Code a first person shooter, get rendering with Blender, Jitsi conferencing, emulate the classic Apple II, special effects in GIMP, audio workstation software and loads more!

 Features

Plug & Play Pi Projects

Jonni Bidwell plunders Tom’s Hardware to bring you the best in Raspberry Pi-based entertainment. (Jonni Bidwell)
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A parent’s guide to programming

Mike Bedford investigates which programming languages to consider if you want to help your children get a head-start in coding. (Mike Bedford)
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Kubernets krazyness!

We talk to database guru Patrick McFadin. (Jonni Bidwell)
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Answers

We provide the light at the end of various long tunnels, including solving network problems, fixing a scanner that won’t do its one job and making Wi-Fi work as it should. (Neil Bothwick)
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 Coverdisc

DVD pages

Mageia 8, AntiX 19.3 (Jonni Bidwell)
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Hotpicks

Alexander Tolstoy hasn’t got the time to read every Russian Tweet, he’s far too busy reading every new FOSS release and writing them up here, like Photoflare, Qytdl, KWipe, GabTag, Fvid, Draw.io, Spech, 0 A.D., Quadplay, Guitar and Sonice. (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Fresh multiplexer

(Shashank Sharma)
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Jitsi video conferencing

(Nick Peers)
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Getting started with Blender

(Michael Reed)
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Emulate the classic Apple II

(Les Pounder)
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GIMP - adding special effects

(Mike Bedford)
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Onlyoffice - co-editing docs

(Kseniya)
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 Reviews

AMD Ryzen 9 5950X

(Zak Storey)
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WD Black SN850 1TB

(Linux Format)
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Sparky Linux 2021.03

(Mayank Sharma)
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SystemRescue 8.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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CentOS Stream 8.0

(Mayank Sharma)
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Spiritfarer

(Linux Format)
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MX Fluxbox Pi 21.02.20

(Les Pounder)
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Audio workstations

LMMS 1.2.2, Ardour 6.5, Qtractor 0.9.19, Waveform Pro 11.5, MusE 4.0 (Michael Reed)
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 More

News: News

Way-hay for Wayland we cry, NASA lands Tux on Mars, there’s a modular Linux laptop coming, Python2 is going on Fedora, SteamLink goes open source and all your servers belong to Microsoft! (Matt Hanson)
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News: Kernel Watch

(Jon Masters)
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News: Pi news

Interest heats up for the Coolest Projects, plus Ethernet double-whammy and MicroPython is piped on to the Pi. (Les Pounder)
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