Raspberry Pi

Forget GPUs! Mine Bitcoin With Game Boy + Raspberry Pi Pico

Home News Game Boy mining Bitcoin (Image credit: stacksmashing/YouTube) Nothing is safe from cryptocurrency mining — not even 32-year old tech. YouTuber stacksmashing (via TweakTown) has successfully repurposed his old Game Boy to mine Bitcoin. The mod won’t turn you into a millionaire overnight, but it does prove that you can teach an old dog… Read more

Raspberry Pi Zero W Streams Live Video from Stratosphere

Home News (Image credit: Horus 55) We love the Raspberry Pi and would do anything to elevate its status when it’s rightly deserved but we can’t top the efforts of the Project Horus team who recently launched a Pi Zero into the Earth’s stratosphere. Not only did they take our favorite SBC to a new… Read more

How to Use CircuitPython With GPIO Pins on a PC

Thanks to the Raspberry Pi and Arduino, we are familiar with the GPIO (general purpose input/output) that enable these boards to interface with real-world electronic devices. PCs are devoid of a GPIO but boards such as Adafruit’s FT232H are available that provide that functionality via a USB port. CircuitPython Installation We’ll be using Python to… Read more

Maker Creates Adafruit Feather RP2040 Before Official Release

Home News (Image credit: Guido Burger) Waiting for new hardware to release can be a grueling process. But this maker, known as Guido Burger, took matters into their own hands by creating an Adafruit Feather RP2040 before it was officially released. The new board from Adafruit is available for sale as of now, but stock… Read more

How to Delete Duplicate Files in Linux with Fdupes

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) As important as it is to keep your disks clear of duplicate files, finding copies of files is a tiresome job and most people don’t want to do it. This isn’t a problem if all you have are tiny text files that take up a few kilobytes each. But… Read more

Seeed Teases New RP2040 Board With WiFi

Home News (Image credit: Seeed) Seeed Studio is no stranger to the Raspberry Pi RP2040 ‘Pi Silicon,’ but it has yet to produce its own board based on the surprisingly adaptable microcontroller. In a recent tweet, we can see a teaser for the company’s upcoming board, currently known as the “Shield for Seeed Wio RP2040,”… Read more

How to Turn Your Raspberry Pi into an Electronic Door Chime

Have you ever wanted to play a sound effect when someone enters the door? Using a Raspberry Pi, some speakers, and some ingenuity you can make your life closer to one of my favourite shows – Seinfeld. This Raspberry Pi project is great for beginners and introduces you to the concept of using the GPIO… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico Keyboard Features Mechanical Keys

Home News (Image credit: Adam K, Envious Media) We’ve been fans of Raspberry Pi keyboards long before the launch of the Raspberry Pi 400, but this Pico-powered keyboard, known as Env-KB, is the Pi-based keyboard we never knew we needed! It was designed entirely from scratch by a maker named Adam K from Envious Media…. Read more

Feature Packed Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 Squeezed Into A Seven Inch Display

Home News (Image credit: Chipsee) The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 was made to be embedded into custom applications. Chipsee, a Chinese industrial electronics company, has integrated the Compute Module 4 into an industrial display designed to be added to your own chassis. As reported by CNX Software, the Industrial Pi CM4-70-EM is dominated by… Read more

How to Program Raspberry Pi Pico With the Arduino IDE

Wiring code for your Raspberry Pi Pico can fall into two categories. The easy way for new users is to use a version of Python such as MicroPython or CircuitPython. A more advanced way is to write code in C / C++ which is for more confident users. There is now a third way that… Read more

Modular Mini Computer PocKit Now Powered by Raspberry Pi

Home News (Image credit: PocKit) Building a PC is often compared to assembling a Lego kit. Modular devices extend the comparison by offering hot-swappable components that can be arranged to suit a variety of use cases, and the latest attempt to deliver on this promise is Project PocKit, a work-in-progress Liliputing highlighted after seeing its… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico Uses Hand Gestures to Drive in Asphalt 8

Home News (Image credit: Hriday746) Whether or not you grew up wanting the Nintendo Power Glove doesn’t matter. Now anyone can make their own—or at least something similar—with this awesome creation by maker Hriday Badot. Using a Raspberry Pi Pico with an MPU-6050 accelerometer module, he was able to steer and drive a car in… Read more

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 NVMe Boot Enters Beta

Home News (Image credit: Jeff Geerling) How do you boot your Raspberry Pi? The vast majority of us will use a microSD card, some may use a USB drive as a boot device. With the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 we saw a PCIe 1x slot appear on the official carrier board and intrepid hackers… Read more

Community Adds Raspberry Pi Pico Support to Arduino IDE

Home News (Image credit: Tom’s Hardware) From launch, the Raspberry Pi Pico officialy supported two programming languages — MicroPython and C/C++. With MicroPython aimed squarely at new users, C/C++ was seen as the best choice for developers wishing to push the Pico to the limit. There was one problem, though; despite having great documentation, C/C++… Read more

Valve releases Steam Link app for macOS

Valve is launching a dedicated Steam Link app for macOS this week. The app allows Steam users to stream games from a PC to devices with the Steam Link app installed. While the Steam macOS app has offered streaming already, MacRumors points out that this lightweight Steam Link app is just 30MB in size from… Read more