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Cubox-M Aims To Be Your Raspberry Pi Alternative

Home News (Image credit: SolidRun) Are you old enough to remember the Rubik’s Cube? Well, SolidRun’s latest SBC, the Cubox-M, may just remind you of that 1980’s sensation. Announced today by SolidRun, the Cubox-M is a 2-inch cube SBC with either a dual- or quad-core Arm processor packaged into a compact and rather slick plastic… Read more

Turn Your Raspberry Pi Into a Motorola Droid-like Handheld PC

Home News (Image credit: Rahmanshaber) Do you miss phones with slide-out keyboards? Can you pretend you miss them long enough to hear about a cool Raspberry Pi project? Ok, great, because there’s a new open-source handheld computer project that basically turns your Raspberry Pi (or similar board like the Pine H64 Model B or the… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico Powers Space Invaders Clone

Home News (Image credit: Print ‘N Play) YouTuber Print ‘N Play has put his Raspberry Pi Pico to good use by building a miniature version of the arcade classic Space Invaders using just a few components and plenty of MicroPython. Building a miniature video game is entirely possible with Raspberry Pi Pico. In fact the… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico DVI Sock Adds Video Output To Your Pico

Home News (Image credit: Luke Wren) Raspberry Pi engineer Luke Wren has been busy with his Raspberry Pi Pico and his latest project is called Pico DVI Sock, which is a board that provides a full-size HDMI port for the Raspberry Pi Pico. The Pico DVI Sock is an add-on that connects to the last… Read more

Pimoroni to Release RP2040-Powered Mechanical Keyboard

Home News (Image credit: Pimoroni) The Raspberry Pi Pico’s RP2040 SoC is turning up in the most unlikely of places, one of which is a redesigned mechanical keyboard from Pimoroni. Keybow 2040 is the latest version of Pimoroni’s Keybow keyboard add ons, and this version is the first to feature the RP2040 SoC as the… Read more

Community Ports Raspberry Pi Pico Setup Script To Windows

Home News (Image credit: Future) The Raspberry Pi Pico is a $4 powerhouse of a microcontroller, and the range of projects created in such a short space of time is amazing. There are two officially supported languages for the Pico – MicroPython and C. While MicroPython is aimed at beginners and hobbyists, C is where… Read more

How to Build a Motion-Triggered Raspberry Pi Security Camera

Home security camera systems have exploded in popularity while decreasing in price over the past few years. For example, you could purchase a Ring Indoor Security Camera for around $60, but there are some drawbacks: first, vendors like Ring often charge a monthly fee to store your data and second, you might not want video… Read more

The Lisperati1000: A Raspberry Pi Rig for Lisp Fans

Home News (Image credit: Conrad Barski) We’re no strangers to Raspberry Pi rigs. We’ve seen Pis inside of everything from Pelican cases to sandwich-cutters. But this Raspberry Pi desktop is designed for lovers of the old-school programming language Lisp—it’s even been affectionately dubbed The Lisperati1000 by its creator, Conrad Barski. The only thing Lisp-related to… Read more

New Pico Clone Looks Just Like Raspberry Pi Zero

Home News (Image credit: Arturo182) The maker community has embraced the RP2040, the SoC at the heart of the Raspberry Pi Pico. Arturo182, known for his Serpente range of CircuitPython boards has unveiled an RP2040 based board, Meta Pico which shares the Raspberry Pi Zero form factor. How about a @Raspberry_Pi RP2040 in a Zero… Read more

How to Reset Your Raspberry Pi Pico With a Button

The Raspberry Pi Pico is a fantastic piece of technology, but it does have one flaw: there is no reset button. How important is this omission? Sometimes our code can go awry, or we need to flash new firmware to our Pico. When this happens we have to unplug the Pico and plug it back… Read more

Raspberry Pi Pico Powers Voltmeter Project

Why purchase a specialized tool when you can create your own with a Raspberry Pi? That seems to be what maker Stewart Watkiss was thinking when creating this Raspberry Pi Pico Voltmeter project. We’ve been excited to see such a massive selection of Raspberry Pi Pico projects since it first released and this one is… Read more

Make Your Own Raspberry Pi Games With Surrogate TV

Home News (Image credit: Surrogate) There’s no experience quite like playing one of the many Raspberry Pi-based games on Surrogate TV’s website. Now you can create your own using the newly released SurroRTG SDK. The platform will work with Raspberry Pi 4B as well as 3B+ and 3A models. You will need a microSD card… Read more