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Creative Coding on a Raspberry Pi 5?

Published by Tim on Friday December 19, 2025

Last modified on May 5th, 2026 at 15:19

The downgrade mindset led me to another exciting experiment: The Raspberry Pi is a small and cheap computer (around 100 bucks), which is highly popular in the maker scene. The model number 5 blew peoples minds: The performance is absolutely surprising. I wanted to check it out myself and try to code a visual system with it. Here’s how this went.

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