The RasQberry project: Exploring Quantum Computing and Qiskit with a Raspberry Pi and a 3D Printer - or: Building a Functional Model of a Quantum Computer at Home
Note: If you are looking for the functional model of IBM Quantum System ONE, please go to https://rasqberry.one. Here is the new project, building a functional model of IBM Quantum System TWO, including several additional updates, e.g. 64-bit OS, Raspberry Pi 5, Qiskit 1.x, more Quantum Computing Demos, integration into raspi-config, etc.
Quick setup instructions:
Initialize an SD card with Raspberry Pi Imager, using the new RasQberry image based on "bookworm, 64-bit".
The latest RasQberry images can be found at https://github.com/JanLahmann/RasQberry-Two/releases
Alternatively, this image can be accessed with the Raspberry Pi Imager using a custom repository. On a Mac, run the following command in a terminal
/Applications/Raspberry\ Pi\ Imager.app/Contents/MacOS/rpi-imager --repo https://RasQberry.org/RQB-images.jsonor on Windows
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Raspberry Pi Imager\rpi-imager.exe" --repo https://RasQberry.org/RQB-images.jsonThis image includes Qiskit 1.x and several Quantum computing Demos.
Further instructions will be released, soon.
Qiskit is available in the default venv called RQB2. In case this venv is not activated, you can activate with
. /home/pi/RasQberry-Two/venv/RQB2/bin/activateand list the available Qiskit modules:
(RQB2) pi@raspberrypi:~ $ pip list | grep qiskit
qiskit 1.1.1
qiskit-qasm3-import 0.5.0STL files for a 3D model of IBM Quantum System Two are available in the 3D-model branch