Raspberry Pi

Raspberry Pi SNES Controller Handheld Has Its Own Screen

Home News (Image credit: Josh, Restore Techniques) The Raspberry Pi retrogaming community has been hard at work over the last few years to master the portable handheld. This awesome SNES controller RetroPie rig, created by Josh from Restore Technique, gets us one step closer to ultimate retro gaming perfection. For this project, Josh decided to… Read more

Best Last-Minute Digital Gifts You Can Give Right Now

Home News (Image credit: Shutterstock) In prior years, if you needed a last-minute gift, you might run out to the store and brave the crowds, but in this year of pandemic, that’s not a good idea. Besides, it might not even be safe or practical to visit your giftee in person. Fortunately, there are a… Read more

Raspberry Pi HPi95LX Project is a Retro PDA Masterpiece

Home News (Image credit: Rune Kyndal) This Raspberry Pi project may be the most retro cyberdeck project we’ve seen in all of 2020. Maker Rune Kyndal decided to spruce up an old HP95LX with the addition of a Raspberry Pi inside. The project was born from Kyndal’s desire to create a usable palmtop capable of… Read more

What Are HEVC and AVC? H.265 and H.264 Video Codecs Explained

Home References (Image credit: Shutterstock) Who doesn’t love 4K? With a whopping 8.3 million pixels, a 3840 x 2160 resolution is quite the luxury these days. With a 4K monitor or TV, movies and games look impeccably sharp and detailed, and productivity also gets a boost. But that’s assuming your content is actually being delivered… Read more

Raspberry Pi Mod Installs Wi-Fi That’s 44% Faster than Ethernet

Home News (Image credit: Jeff Geerling) Raspberry Pi computers tend to make for great projects and single-use devices, but the same size that makes them so multipurpose also means they can be a little slow when it comes to network connectivity. That’s a shame, because some of the best uses for Pi, like turning it… Read more

Raspberry Pi Zero Squeezed Into Nintendo Christmas Ornament

Home News (Image credit: Retrocution) This exciting holiday project comes to us from a maker known on Reddit as Retrocution. This holiday, Retrocution decided to use a Raspberry Pi to turn a NES-shaped Christmas tree ornament into a functioning retro gaming console. To create the project, Retrocution essentially squeezed a Raspberry Pi Zero inside a… Read more

Watch the Skies this Holiday with Raspberry Pi Meteor Detector

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) From Santa’s sleigh to celestial objects leading kings to babies, this is a big week for unexpected things showing up in the night sky. What’s not so unexpected are the small meteor showers that hit Earth on a daily basis. These tend to only catch our attention when the… Read more

How to Use a Tablet as a Portable Raspberry Pi Screen

Every model of Raspberry Pi needs some form of output and typically this takes the form of a screen. You can forgo a monitor and set up a headless Raspberry Pi, but having a screen is better where possible because you don’t need a network connection and using VNC for remote viewing makes watching videos… Read more

3D Printed Raspberry Pi Server Serves Up Fourteen Slices of Pi

Home News (Image credit: Uptime Labs) The Raspberry Pi has notable performance for a pocket-sized SBC but why not multiply that power? This awesome project comes to us from a maker at Uptime Labs—it’s called Raspberry Pi Server Mark III. The Mark III is essentially a 3D-printed Raspberry Pi server rack, capable of housing up… Read more

Raspberry Pi Project Monitors New Delhi Air Pollution

Home News (Image credit: New York Times) The Raspberry Pi is one of our most favorite devices of the 21st century. As dedicated fans, we can’t help but get excited when it’s used to help make a difference in the world. This project was featured in the New York Times who explained how the SBC… Read more

How to Build an Alexa Smart Screen with Raspberry Pi

In this tutorial, we’ll install Alexa Smart Screen SDK on a Raspberry Pi 4 to essentially “make” our own version of the Echo Show. We’ll nickname this project, “PiShow.” This project is possible with the Amazon Alexa Smart Screen SDK, in addition to the Alexa Voice Service (AVS) SDK discussed in our previous article, How… Read more

Gelid Aims To Keep Your Raspberry Pi 4 as Cool as Ice

Home News (Image credit: Gelid) Gelid, perhaps better known for their range of PC cooling kits, has branched out into the world of Raspberry Pi accessories with an aluminum case designed for the Raspberry Pi 4. The Iceberry has three forms of cooling in what looks to be a rather svelte package. Image 1 of… Read more

Tried: BlackArch Linux as a comprehensive penetration testing toolkit

Six months after the last major update, Arch Linux released BlackArch Linux at the beginning of December. All basic components of the proud 12 GByte Live systems were updated to the status of the Arch Linux installation media 2020. 12. 01 brought. The updated kernel and particularly fresh program versions for everyday Linux use are… Read more

Raspberry Pi Game Boy-Themed Handheld Plays Cyberpunk 2077

Home News (Image credit: Tekwendell) Here’s one more way to try playing Cyberpunk 2077: this Raspberry Pi-powered handheld that strongly resembles an original Game Boy, created by a maker known online as Wendell (or Tekwendell via Twitter). Let’s get this out of the way, Cyberpunk 2077 is not running on the Raspberry Pi but is… Read more

Raspberry Pi 400 – Back to keyboard PCs

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