A slice of Raspberry Pi: how to build your own retro games machine
With a £34 mini computer and an emulator, gaming’s entire back catalogue opens up to you to play. But there are important points to consider – not least questions of legality
June 2024
SpaceWar is back! Rebuilding the world’s first gaming computer
A large team of tech nostalgia enthusiasts have made a PiDP-10, a replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1966
May 2024
Raspberry Pi: how push for child programming skills inspired a coding generation
Tech firm Raspberry Pi readies for London stock market float
January 2020
The networker
Why we need to blow a Raspberry at big tech…
John Naughton
The Raspberry Pi has notched up 30m sales – fulfilling the promise of user-controlled programming and inspiring children
August 2017
Ask Jack
Should I buy my eight-year-old son the laptop he is badgering us for?
Gareth’s son wants a laptop, but he might end up spending too much time playing games. If he got a Raspberry Pi would he learn more about computing?
December 2016
Community
Quadcopters to Alzheimer's solutions: readers' best Raspberry Pi projects
Imaginative readers shared their home tech projects – here are some of our favourites, from their visionary solutions to the delightfully pointless
Community
Share your best Raspberry Pi or Arduino projects
We were thrilled with your creative contributions last time we asked – a year on, we want to see what you’ve been making in 2016
Robots beware, children are in training for the jobs of tomorrow
After-school tech clubs and Raspberry Pi are reigniting hobbyist computing and creating a talent pipeline
September 2016
The Guardian view on the Raspberry Pi: small is beautiful
Editorial: The digital world gives us convenience at the price of control. The Pi reverses that balance
June 2016
Raspberry Pi maker to sell company for £615m to Swiss Dätwyler
Shares in Premier Farnell, maker of £20 educational computer for children, rise by 50% as sale is announced
February 2016
Raspberry Pi 3: the credit card-sized 1.2GHz PC that costs $35
Raspberry Pi foundation launches new model as it announces 8m devices have been sold in four years, making it the UK’s all-time bestselling computer
December 2015
Community
Best reader Raspberry Pi projects – and some of the most pointless
From musical tweetbots to rejuvenated and repurposed arcade games and cameras, here are some of the best hacks and projects you told us about.
November 2015
Community
Raspberry Pi: share your projects and home hacks
Raspberry Pi's latest computer so cheap it comes free with magazine
August 2015
Raspberry Pi manufacturer ousts chief executive after run of bad results
Laurence Bain led Premier Farnell, which makes the educational mini-computer, for three years but saw stock plunge to a six-year low in July
June 2015
Market Forces blog
Premier Farnell falls on profit margin concerns
Component distributor down 4% while Playtech hit by £250m placing plan
Connected world
How to turn your old house into a smart home
Connected appliances, heating and more are making homes smarter. But what can you do if you live in a centuries-old dwelling?
David Cameron, the 'snooper's charter' will not make us safer
Cory Doctorow
The UK government appears to have swallowed a fly – and it’s not the bad guys who’ll die, but our liberty
March 2015
Tried and tested
The latest ‘kidtech’ kits: tried and tested
Stef Lewandowski: Give your children the chance to be creators, not just consumers of technology