Raspberry Pi

How to Use a 7-Segment Display with Raspberry Pi Pico

7-segment displays, the kind found on old digital alarm clocks, can be great for Raspberry Pi projects, including those you make with Raspberry Pi Pico. You can use a 7-segment display to keep score in a game, show sensor data like temperature or distance numbers or to keep track of time. You can even show… Read more

ArduCAM Demos Raspberry Pi Pico Video Streaming and Person Detection

Home News (Image credit: ArduCAM) The $4 Raspberry Pi Pico just keeps on giving! The latest project as reported by Hackaday sees the team behind the popular ArduCAM create a library enabling the Raspberry Pi Pico to work with an SPI camera for video streaming and person detection. Image 1 of 5 (Image credit: ArduCAM)… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico Emulates Nintendo Console

Home News (Image credit: Ben Stragnell) The Raspberry Pi Pico, a $4 microcontroller with a custom Raspberry Pi SoC has only been with us for a short time but eager hackers are already pushing this board to do much more than flash an LED. Ben Stragnell has used his Raspberry Pi Pico to emulate a… Read more

Alternative Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Carrier Board Offers Familiar Layout

Home News (Image credit: DFRobot) The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 introduced a change in form factor for the industrial/embedded range of Raspberry Pi. Previous models favored the SODIMM form factor, but for the Compute Module 4, we saw a change to a dual, custom interface. The Compute Module 4 form factor requires a development… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico Powered Open Source E-Book Reader

Home News (Image credit: Joey Castillo) The Open Book Project from Joey Castillo is an amazing piece of work, a DIY open source e-book designed so that anyone can solder up their own reader. The project has been with us for some time, and the past version has been based upon a SAMD51 processor commonly… Read more

Best Raspberry Pi Accessories of 2021

Home Best-picks (Image credit: Amazon) Raspberry Pi Models, Tutorials and More You can purchase a Raspberry Pi for as little as $5 (for the Raspberry Pi Zero) or more likely $35 (for the Raspberry Pi 4), but you’ll need a few extra products to make it run. And, beyond that, there’s a whole world of… Read more

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 DIY NAS

Home News (Image credit: Wiretrustee) The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 introduced both a new form factor and a PCIe 1x connection which has seen use with M.2 expansions for storage and Tensorflow Processing Units. Wiretrustee has taken the initiative and created a NAS carrier board that provides space for up to four SATA drives…. Read more

Best Raspberry Pi Projects

(Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) January was a huge month for Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi Foundation released the Raspberry Pi Pico, a brand new board that serves as a microcontroller and uses the organization’s first custom silicon, the RP2040 CPU. There’s now an entire ecosystem of Pico products to go along with all the traditional… Read more

How to Use Your Raspberry Pi Pico With DC Motors

The Raspberry Pi Pico is an enticingly small, yet powerful board that offers users the chance to create projects both great and small. One type of project is robotics and for this we need motors. So how can we control DC motors with a Raspberry Pi Pico? Can we connect them directly to the GPIO?… Read more

Play Tetris on the Raspberry Pi Pico

Home News (Image credit: Jools64) Until the new Pimoroni PicoSystem is released, much of the maker community is itching to emulate and play games on the Raspberry Pi Pico—not because it’s effective but because we can. This maker, known online as Jools64, opted to create their own solution by programming a Tetris demo that runs… Read more

Raspberry Pi Tricorder Works and Looks Just Like a Star Trek Prop

Home News (Image credit: Directive0) This exciting Star Trek-themed Raspberry Pi project comes to us from a maker known as Directive0 on Twitter. Replica tricorders just won’t cut it—Directive0 decided to make a working one with the help of a Raspberry Pi. The project is officially dubbed TR-109 Picorder 2. The main goal was to… Read more

This modified 2004 iPod Classic has wi-fi, Bluetooth and Spotify streaming

Home News (Image credit: Guy Dupont (via YouTube)) The iPod Touch is not only the last official surviving member of Apple’s iPod music player dynasty, it’s also the only model Apple ever released with wi-fi connection. But what if the old iPod you’ve got in a drawer somewhere could be modified to add Bluetooth and wi-fi… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico vs Arduino: Which Board is Better?

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) Before the Raspberry Pi Pico arrived, there was a sharp distinction between the Raspberry Pi and Arduino ecosystems. The Pi is a Linux computer that boots up into a full operating system and the Arduino is a microcontroller that just runs one program at a time. With the arrival… Read more

Cytron Announce Raspberry Pi Pico Beginner Breakout Board

Home News (Image credit: Cytron) Malaysian manufacturer Cytron are working on their first Raspberry Pi Pico accessory and so far it looks like it could be a winner. The Maker Pi Pico is a carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Pico which breaks out all of the GPIO pins, along with a few extra features,… Read more

Maker Creates Custom Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Tablet

Home News (Image credit: Ostahos) Raspberry Pi tablet projects occasionally arise in the maker community—there are even third-party tablet kits like the Raspad from Sunfounder. But the biggest restriction in many Pi tablet creations seems to be size. Models with the USB stacks and Ethernet port are at a notable height disadvantage. That’s where projects… Read more