Raspberry Pi Development

Raspberry Pi has come up with a Japanese keyboard. It required a  new moulding set to cover the 83-key arrangement of the keys. It’s quite a complex keyboard, with three different character sets to deal with. ‘Figuring out how the USB keyboard controller maps to all the special keys on a Japanese keyboard was particularly challenging, with most web searches ...

Farnell is now shipping pi-top [4] – a programmable computing device to support digital making, coding and practical projects for educators and students, as well as makers and inventors. Suitable for multiple learning environments in school, at home or in the community; students can develop key skills including coding and circuit design, as well as increasingly in-demand soft skills such ...

Raspberry Pi is adopting the OpenVX 1.3 API to improve computer vision. The open and royalty-free API  comes from the Khronos Group whose members include AMD, Apple, Arm, Epic Games, Google, Samsung, Intel, Nvidia, Boeing and IKEA. “The Khronos Group and Raspberry Pi have come together to work on an open-source implementation of OpenVX 1.3, which passes the conformance on ...

A LoRaWAN Gateway with RAK2245 Pi HAT on a Raspberry Pi 4 mini PC is described on Hackster.io by  Attila Tőkés. The RAK2245 is a Raspberry Pi HAT featuring a LoRaWAN multichannel concentrator module (SX1301) and a GPS module (Ublox MAX-7Q). There are multiple versions with support for all the major frequency regions (EU433, CN470, IN865, EU868, AU915, US915, KR920, ...

The software developer Ventz has come up with a way to run streaming video on a Raspberry Pi. Normally, using Chromium, the default browser in Raspberry Pi OS, results in paid streaming services such as Netflix, HBO Go and Disney+ not working, because the DRM software is incompatible with the ARM version of the browser. YouTube videos don’t suffer from ...

Farnell is launching  a new variant of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B computer with 8Gbyte of on-board memory, offering double the capacity of the existing high-end model. The additional memory improves the performance of data-intensive applications, making the 8Gbyte version an attractive solution for general desktop computer users, hobbyists and makers, and professional developers alike. Offering a balance of ...

PA Consulting’s Raspberry Pi Competition awards took place virtually this year, due to the pandemic. It was a strange irony of the times, as this year’s theme addressed ‘creating the sustainable city of the future using a Raspberry Pi’. The annual competition, now in its eighth year, challenges primary, secondary and college students across the UK to invent and create ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has brought out the beta release of a firmware update featuring a bootloader with USB boot support on the Raspberry Pi 4.  The update allows USB boot support, eliminating the need for a microSD card entirely.  With the beta firmware, Pi 4 owners can boot operating systems using USB 3.0.  Since this is a beta, early ...

Mouser Electronics continues to increase its Pimoroni offering, adding the PIM486 Enviro and the Pirate Audio accessories from the Sheffield-based company. Pimoroni was founded in 2012, designing and manufacturing breakout boards, kits and add-ons for Raspberry Pi and micro:bit. The company name – pronounced Pih-mo-row-knee, is based on ‘pirate, monkey, robot, ninja’ and the company’s mission is to make electronics ...

Infineon has made a HAT for Raspberry Pi which it says is the world’s first fully self-contained Raspberry Pi audio amplifier HAT. It offers high definition audio at boom box power levels in a small form factor. The Infineon proprietary multilevel technology ensures minimum size and consumption, state of the art power efficiency, and HD audio quality for Raspberry Pi ...