Raspberry Pi

The original Celeste now has a sequel you can play in your browser

Celeste was one of the most acclaimed games of 2018, but what you may not have known is that the tightly designed platformer was an expanded version of a smaller project developed in four days at a game jam. Maddy Thorson and Noel Berry created the original Celeste for the Pico-8 platform, and now that… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico Detects Intruders in Custom Security System

Home News (Image credit: Arm) It seems like everyone in the maker community is excited about the new Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller, including this team of software developers from Arm. In their latest project, a Pico is used as a critical component in a custom Raspberry Pi security system. In the project, a Pico is… Read more

How to Connect an Analog Joystick to Raspberry Pi Pico

There are many reasons you might want to use an analog joystick in your Raspberry Pi Pico project. Perhaps you’re creating a game or maybe you need an input device for navigating. Whatever the case, connecting an analog stick to your Raspberry Pi Pico is really easy and coding for it in MicroPython is also… Read more

Adafruit Planning Tiny Raspberry Pi Pico Board With USB-C

Home News (Image credit: Future) Adafruit are not resting on their laurels and they are pressing on with their range of RP2040 ‘Pi Silicon’ based boards which use the same chip as the recently released Raspberry Pi Pico. In a recent tweet Adafruit have announced their latest prototype, the QT Py RP2040 a version of… Read more

How to Use a Motion Sensor with Raspberry Pi Pico

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Raspberry Pi Pico has a number of GPIO pins which we can use as inputs or outputs by simply configuring the pins in our code. In this guide, we shall learn how to work with inputs, in this case a sensor, and outputs in the form of an… Read more

heise + | Upcycling: Building Micro-NAS with Banana Pi M1, FreeBSD and ZFS

Upcycling: Building Micro-NAS with Banana Pi M1, FreeBSD and ZFS Write FreeBSD to SD card and prepare speed exhaust localize external hard drive Start FreeBSD Conclusion When we switched to FreeBSD out of curiosity tested various ARM-based single board computers (Single Board Computer / SBC), two older Banana Pi M1s stood out from the crowd:… Read more

#TGIQF – the news quiz for calendar week 3

Netflix reports record numbers, SpaceX buys oil construction platforms and VW invests in the future of electric cars. Test your knowledge of news in the news quiz! Good news for Netflix, heavy fines for Valve and other game companies – and a new model of the Raspberry Pi that costs just 4 euros. If you… Read more

The Raspberry Pi Pico is a tiny $4 microcontroller running off the company’s very own chip

The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s tiny computers can be used for anything from homemade cameras to cucumber sorters, and now, the group is branching out into microcontrollers and custom silicon. The Raspberry Pi Pico is the first step. It’s a new $4 microcontroller that’s smaller than the average Pi, features a custom chip powerful enough to… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico: Tutorials, Pinout, Everything You Need to Know

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Raspberry Pi Pico is a radical change from previous Pis, because it’s not a Linux computer, but a a microcontroller board like Arduino . The biggest selling points of the Raspberry Pi Pico are the price, $4 and the new RP2040 chip which provides ample power for embedded… Read more

How To Solder Pins to Your Raspberry Pi Pico

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) The Raspberry Pi Pico is a great little controller board to use with your electronics projects. However, it doesn’t come with any pins connected to its 40 GPIO pin holes. Without pins, the board can’t connect to motors, lights, sensors or any of the other things you’d need to… Read more

How to Set Up and Program Raspberry Pi Pico

The Raspberry Pi Pico is an intriguing board. Rather than be another Linux single board computer like every other Raspberry Pi, the Pico is a low-cost Arm based microcontroller which we can program using C/C++ and MicroPython. In this tutorial we will introduce how to get started with the Raspberry Pi Pico, If you would… Read more

The Raspberry Pi Pico costs only 4 dollars and integrates its own SoC RP2040

by Antonio Delgado Ago 10 minutes … Practically by surprise , Raspberry has released a new “miniPC” in card format, the Raspberry Pi Pico . This time it is a considerably smaller model than the conventional Raspberry Pi like the Pi 4 and that, in addition to costing only 4 Dollars, is the first to… Read more

‘Pi Silicon’ Partners Reveal RP2040 Boards and Accessories

Home News (Image credit: SparkFun / Pimoroni) SparkFun and Pimoroni, partners in the recent Raspberry Pi Pico project, have announced their own RP2040 ‘Pi Silicon’ based boards with extra features and changes to the Pico form factor. Pimoroni is also the first partner to have add-on boards available for purchase for release day. This follows… Read more

RP2040 microcontroller board: Raspberry Pi Pico costs from 4 euros

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has presented the Raspberry Pi Pico, the first microcontroller miniboard developed in-house. While the classic Raspberry Pi is getting faster and bigger in performance and storage capacity, the Raspberry Pi Pico should be used where another Pi board would be too big, too consumption-intensive and simply oversized. A RP 2017 microcontroller… Read more

“Usable” Linux lands on the M1 Mac

Since Apple launched ARM Macs, various groups have tried to port Linux to the machines. The software provider Corellium, known for its practical tools for iOS virtualization, which Apple would like to prevent, has now had its first success. The developers were now able to boot a full Ubuntu rpi desktop on the M1 Mac…. Read more