Pay what you want for a bundle of books and support the Raspberry Pi Foundation

We’ve teamed up with Humble Bundle once again to let you name your own price for a bundle of Raspberry Pi Press e-books. With this bundle, you’ll receive DRM-free electronic copies of a selection of our titles, and your purchase will support the Raspberry Pi Foundation‘s work to help young people realise their potential through computing.

Check out the Best of Humble Bundle: Raspberry Pi & Retro Gaming book bundle, an encore of a popular bundle we’ve offered in the past. It’s available from 21 April to 12 May at 7pm BST (11am PT).

Inside this 14-book library, you’ll get The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook 2025, Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi, plus English, Spanish, German, and French versions of The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner’s Guide, 5th Edition (2023) — and more. The bundle is designed to help deepen your understanding of Raspberry Pi computers, whether you’re new to computing or a seasoned professional.

Pay as little as £0.74. Normally, the total cost of the e-books included in this bundle is as much as £149.55 ($222). We have partnered with Humble Bundle so that you can choose the price you pay and support the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the process. For £11.10 (or more, if you’re feeling generous), you’ll receive all 14 titles.

Read them anywhere. The e-books in this bundle are available in PDF and ePub formats, and are provided without restrictive DRM. They’ll work on your computers, e-readers, iPads, smartphones, and a wide array of mobile devices!

Let’s learn more about a few of the Raspberry Pi books available in this bundle…

Code the Classics Volumes I and II

These books not only tell the stories of some of the seminal video games of the 1980s, but also show you how to create your own games inspired by them. You’ll follow examples programmed by Andrew Gillett, ably assisted by Sean M. Tracey and Raspberry Pi co-founder and CEO Eben Upton.

Learn how to run and edit retro-style games, including:

• Avenger: Fly across a scrolling landscape while you save humans from malevolent aliens
• Beat Streets: Fight your way through a level and defeat a notorious crime boss
• Eggzy: Collect gems and survive as long as possible before time runs out
• Leading Edge: Race a car on a pseudo-3D race track
• Kinetix: Break bricks with your paddle and use power-ups to avoid various menaces
• Boing!: Add two bats and a ball to create a digital version of ping-pong
• Cavern: Move from platform to platform while warding off enemy robots
• Infinite Bunner: Hop along a scrolling landscape while avoiding cars, trains, and rivers
• Myriapod: Fire rocks at the segments of a falling myriapod until it is destroyed
• Substitute Soccer: Tackle your opponents in a pinball-style soccer match

The Computers that Made Britain

The home computer boom of the 1980s brought with it some now-iconic machines that inspired a generation, including the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and Commodore 64. In The Computers that Made Britain, Tim Danton tells the story of 19 of those computers — and what happened behind the scenes.

Best-selling author and journalist Stuart Turton says: ‘The Computers that Made Britain’ is one of the best things I’ve read this year. It’s an incredible story of eccentrics and oddballs, geniuses and madmen, and one that will have you pining for a future that could have been. It’s utterly astonishing.

Book of Making 2025

Step into the wonderful world of making with this book from the makers of HackSpace, now part of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine. Filled with all the best projects, tutorials, and articles for makers and hackers, Book of Making 2025 distils the essence of HackSpace down to our favourite projects. Whether you want to build a rocket or a hot air balloon, learn 3D-printed mechanical engineering, or control the world around you with a Raspberry Pi Pico, there’s something for everyone in these pages. 

This book is full of projects that are perfect for an hour, an afternoon, or a weekend; be inspired by the selection of amazing community projects and make your own creations using the step-by-step guides. 

Design an RP2040 board with KiCad

This book provides a gentle introduction to PCB design using the RP2040 microcontroller chip (the same chip that’s at the heart of Raspberry Pi Pico). You’ll learn how to create a schematic for a microcontroller board using RP2040, from assigning schematic symbols to creating a footprint for individual components. You’ll quickly move on to laying out the PCB design and preparing it for manufacture!

That’s right — after your board is designed, this book will show you how to send it off to be manufactured and assembled. You’ll find out about the various materials (or substrates) you can choose for your board and learn how to pick the right manufacturer. Once you have your board in hand, you’ll also learn what you can do (and make!) with it, including plenty of ideas for adding expansions such as motor drivers.

Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi

Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi shows you how to set up your Raspberry Pi to play a new generation of classic games. Using step-by-step guides, you’ll learn how to:

• Set up a Raspberry Pi for retro gaming
• Emulate classic computers and consoles
• Code retro-style games
• Build a console, a handheld, and a full-size arcade machine

The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook 2025

Dive into the world of Raspberry Pi with this huge book of tutorials, project showcases, guides, product reviews, and much more from the writers of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine.

With pages packed full of maker goodness, you’ll also find inspiration for your Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, Raspberry Pi 4, or any other Raspberry Pi model you have.

Enjoy 200 pages of Raspberry Pi content:

• Get started with our guide covering every model of Raspberry Pi
• Learn everything you need to know about Raspberry Pi Pico 2
• Upgrade your emulation with next-gen retro gaming
• Build a universal media player for your entertainment centre
• Take pictures of the stars with our astrophotography guide
• Be inspired by our selection of featured projects

Grab your Humble Bundle deal

Check out the Best of Humble Bundle: Raspberry Pi & Retro Gaming book bundle for more detailed descriptions and previews of the titles included. You can also browse our complete library of books on the Raspberry Pi Official Magazine website, where you can download back issues of the magazine!

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