Our Verdict A great kit for learning IoT skills via a curated selection of lessons. The initial cost may seem high, but you get a lot of quality kit and content for your money. For + Great value kit + Lessons are simple and easy to follow + Easy to assemble Against – Not much… Read more
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Taiwan Drought Threatens Single Board Computer Production
Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) It is true to say that 2020 wasn’t a great year, period. There have been both CPU and GPU shortages in the electronics world, but a recent drought in Taiwan could affect all sectors, including the many single board computers (SBC) such as the Raspberry Pi. TSMC has been asked… Read more
read more...Control a Raspberry Pi RC Car Online With Surrogate’s New Project
Home News (Image credit: Surrogate) If you have a soft spot for RC cars, you’ll love this Raspberry Pi-controlled RC car project recently shared by the team at Surrogate. Not only does it use our favorite SBC, it can be controlled online using Surrogate’s custom SDK. The main project components are an RC truck, a… Read more
read more...Building the ultimate retro computer
Although I assembled it myself, and its software all comes from an open-source DIY project, in many ways my MiSTer is the most versatile computer I own. It’s a shapeshifting wonderbox that can change its own logic to make itself run like countless other machines as accurately as possible. From old arcade boards to early… Read more
read more...Camera Extension Aims To Get Your Raspberry Pi Camera Closer To the Action
Home News (Image credit: THine Electronics) The official Raspberry Pi camera now comes in many forms, including the HQ camera, which offers interchangeable lenses. But one thing has remained the same—the flat flex cable that connects the camera to the connector on the Pi. THine Electronics announced a plug-and-play kit that aims to extend the… Read more
read more...Low Cost Raspberry Pi Pico SDR Won’t Hertz Your Wallet
Home News (Image credit: Luigi Cruz) The Raspberry Pi Pico is becoming the Swiss Army Knife of microcontrollers, and this is largely down to the flexibility provided by the programmable IO (PIO) and the $4 price tag. In the latest project to grab our attention, we see Luigi Cruz, a computer student and amateur radio… Read more
read more...Pico4ML Brings Machine Learning To the Raspberry Pi Pico
Home News (Image credit: Arducam) The Raspberry Pi Pico wouldn’t be the first board that comes to mind for machine learning, but it seems that the $4 may be a viable platform for machine learning projects. The Pico4ML from Arducam is an RP2040 based board with an onboard camera, screen, and microphone that looks to… Read more
read more...Raspberry Pi Zaps Mosquitoes with Laser Beam
Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) Don’t be fooled by their tiny size or the fact that you can crush one with your hand. Mosquitos are murderers, killing, by some estimates, more than a million people each year by spreading terrible diseases. Maker Ildar Rakhmatulin is all too familiar with these killer bugs and decided to… Read more
read more...Raspberry Pi Controls Ceiling Fan with Radio Waves
Home News (Image credit: River’s Educational Channel) Some of the most fun Raspberry Pi projects come with a warning label and this is one of them! River’s Educational Channel recently shared a project in which a Raspberry Pi is used to control a ceiling fan using radio waves. This is an impressive project from beginning… Read more
read more...StreamPi: The Raspberry Pi Stream Deck App for Online Gamers
Home News (Image credit: StreamPi) Streaming online doesn’t have to cost a fortune with DIY systems like StreamPi. Using a Raspberry Pi, you can create a custom stream deck experience totally catered to your streaming needs. It’s a cross-platform, open-source application designed to integrate with common platforms used by streamers, and it’s triggered with touchscreen… Read more
read more...How to Build a KVM Over IP with Raspberry Pi
If you’ve ever needed remote access to a PC, you’ve probably tried VPN or other apps such as TeamViewer. However, this kind of software only works within the remote computer’s OS, which means that it can’t access the BIOS, reboot, install an operating system or power on the computer. There are several solutions that allow… Read more
read more...Banana Pi Serves Up New BPI-M2 Pro SBC With Amlogic S905X3
Home News (Image credit: Banana Pi) If you’ve had enough Raspberry Pi, it might be time to sample Banana Pi’s latest single-board computer (SBC), the BPI-M2 Pro module. This new 65 x 65mm board is based on the Amlogic S905X3 chip. The Amlogic S905X3 is a quad-core microprocessor capable of reaching speeds as high as… Read more
read more...Next Raspberry Pi CPU Will Have Machine Learning Built In
Home News (Image credit: Future) At the recent tinyML Summit 2021, Raspberry Pi co-founder Eben Upton teased the future of ‘Pi Silicon’ and it looks like machine learning could see a massive improvement thanks to Raspberry Pi’s news in-house chip development team. It is safe to say that the Raspberry Pi Pico and its RP2040… Read more
read more...Raspberry Pi Pico Converts Guitar into Midi Controller
Home News (Image credit: Philip Gisslow) Once a project idea gets in your head, you just have to play it out. No one knows that better than maker Philip Gisslow who used a Raspberry Pi Pico module to turn his electric guitar into a working Midi controller. Midi controllers are used to create real-time music… Read more
read more...Block Based Coding Comes To the Raspberry Pi Pico
Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Raspberry Pi Pico has been with us for just over a month and in this short space of time, there have been many projects for every level of user. But for those just starting their journey with code it can be a little daunting, and this is where… Read more
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