As the air gets colder and the nights grow longer, that can only mean one thing: it’s time for a new version of The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook! The brand-new 2026 edition is out now, just in time to slip into a lucky someone’s Christmas stocking.

A refreshing change

You may notice that the cover looks a bit different from the past few editions — this is to bring it in line with the new look of Raspberry Pi Official Magazine. If you’re not a fan of change, though, rest assured that the articles in this year’s book still maintain the original design from The MagPi.

Speaking of which, we once again did our very best to squeeze as many incredible projects, builds, and reviews into the 200 pages as we could. While that is a lot of pages, we always have so much great stuff to choose from, so it’s never an easy task. I think we got an excellent balance of articles for every interest and skill level, though.

Raspberry Pi 500+ revealed

You’ll find everything you need to know about the latest and greatest Raspberry Pi release — Raspberry Pi 500+, which came out just two weeks ago. With all the important specs and a tinkering guide, it’s the perfect primer for the ultimate Raspberry Pi computer. We also included a quick-start guide for every other Raspberry Pi model.

Projects to inspire

If you’re looking for some new ideas for a Raspberry Pi or Pico project, look no further! From robots to golf, and from clocks to conservation, there’s a huge number of projects from creators around the world to read about. Maybe they’ll inspire you to make something incredible yourself and be featured in the next handbook!

Guiding your every step

We’ve also featured several of our in-depth tutorials to help you build your own projects, including media players, gaming handhelds, robots, cloud servers, and more. We pride ourselves on our guides, and I think our special on playing retro horror games straight from a Raspberry Pi 5 is a great look into native emulation via DOSBox.

Get it today!

The Official Raspberry Pi Handbook 2026 is out right now, and you can grab it in stores or online from our own store for just £14.