Here are the top twenty most popular Gadget Master posts of 2021. And to keep things fresh, I will restrict it to posts that were newly written in 2021. It turns out popular topics include music (drums, keyboards and guitars), Sony kit, Space and, of course, combining Raspberry Pi with Arduino is an obvious sweet spot…
We’ll take it in reverse order to keep you scrolling and clicking. What is Number One?
20. Ten (random) things you may not know about space
19. Arduino serves as random name generator display
18. Arduino Nano Every drives a DIY Hovercraft!
17. iFixit tears down the PS5 Joystick
16. Gadget Book: Programming the Raspberry Pi Pico in MicroPython
15. Synth-guitar strums keyboard sounds
14. Freedom to Freedrum via a virtual drummer
13. BBC micro:bit powers Kitronik’s Smart Greenhouse Kit
12. Gadget Watch: Vodafone pedals Curve Bike light & GPS tracker
11. Kessler Syndrome and the (growing) problem of Space Debris
10. Raspberry Pi puts on a LoRaWAN styled HAT
9. Arduino makes the Portenta Vision Shield LoRa available
8. Gadget Watch: Music by candlelight with Sony’s LSPX-S3 Glass sound speaker
7. Arduino Nano thermometer takes room temperature
6. Raspberry Pi powers stunning satellite imaging
5. Playing an Arduino-based keytar MIDI controller
4. Raspberry Pi powers school clock e-ink display
3. How to build a DIY voice assistant with Pi and Arduino
2. Arduino powers Super Simple Electronic Component Tester
1. Arduino, and Pi Pico, builds on the Raspberry Pi RP2040
Not only has Raspberry Pi launched its first microcontroller-class product – the RP2040, used by the Raspberry Pi Pico – but then Arduino have built on it with the Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect. The RP2040 is newly developed at the Raspberry Pi Foundation and the Pi Pico builds on it (see above) as a standalone board option for embedded development or as companion piece to your Raspberry Pi computer, perhaps serving first steps with a microcontroller. Basically, we are talking about interfacing your Raspberry Pi to the outside “real” world, whether it is reading sensors, connecting to networks or driving actuators.
Evergreen
If you’re interested to see the very most popular outright posts – evergreen ones and all, here are the top five:
1. Arduino, and Pi Pico, builds on the Raspberry Pi RP2040
2. How to build a plant monitor with Arduino
3. Build your own electric kids’ go-kart
4. PiCapture captures video for the Raspberry Pi
5. DIY VR motion simulator is powered by Arduino
Best wishes to all readers for 2022!
