Tom’s Hardware has shown how to over-clock the 1.5GHz Raspberry Pi 4 to 2.147 GHz. “You can do it just by tweaking a few lines of text in the /boot/config.txt file,” writes Avram Piltch, “now, with the latest firmware, we were able to reach a speed of 2,147 MHz, which we believe is a new high.” “We were also able ...
Raspberry Pi Development
The latest Electronics Weekly news on the eductional Raspberry Pi development board, a “low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse”.
Raspberry Pi-based streaming video backpack
Hackaday describes a plan to build a streaming video back-pack – something which normally costs $1000+ but which this build can do for $600. The plan: build a cheap, do-it-yourself version of the LiveU Solo ($995). This piece of equipment incorporates hardware channel bonding and real-time video transcoding for maintaining uninterrupted video quality while moving around outside. So we installed ...
15m Raspberry Pis sold
Farnell reports that 15 million Raspberry Pis have been sold. Raspberry Pi’s most recent launch, the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B computer, has driven a significant increase in sales. Farnell stocks all Raspberry Pi models with a diverse ecosystem of accessories. Farnell has championed Raspberry Pi through its element 14 Community, creating a forum for its 650,000 members to access informative ...
Raspberry Pi powers IIoT gateway
Farnell is now shipping the Raspberry Pi-powered Avnet SmartEdge Industrial IoT Gateway for use in a range of applications including: building management, vehicle monitoring, industrial automation and predictive maintenance. The gateway, with connected by Avnet’s IoTConnect platform, gathers, analyses and provides actionable, real-time data visualisation-all at a best-in-class price. IoTConnect runs on Microsoft Azure, a set of edge-to-cloud services that ...
Raspberry Pi-powered IIoT Gateway
Farnell is shipping the Avnet SmartEdge Industrial IoT Gateway; the low-cost industrial gateway powered by Raspberry Pi. Since the launch of the product at Embedded World Germany in February 2019, says the company, there has been significant demand for the gateway for use in a range of applications, including: building management, vehicle monitoring, industrial automation and predictive maintenance. The Avnet SmartEdge ...
High Street Raspberry Pi captures images of Earth from SSTL satellite
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) is sharing images and video of planet Earth taken by a commercial grade Raspberry Pi and camera.
Raspberry Pi and Panasonic donate computers to Cameroon school
The Raspberry Pi Foundation and Panasonic Industry Europe have donated 100 Raspberry Pis to the Lycee D’Akwa-Nord Bonamoussadi High School and the University of Science in Douala. In total over 250 pupils – undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students – together with their professors followed the educational and demonstration sessions after the computers were handed over, according to Panasonic, which will ...
Raspberry Pi for IIoT automation
A Kickstarter campaign for a Raspberry Pi add-on for commercial and industrial IoT automation.
Raspberry Pi implanted in a human body
Brian McEvoy at Hackaday tells this gruesome tale of implanting a Raspberry Pi in a leg – two legs actually. ”Earlier this month,” writes McEvoy, “ a group of biohackers installed two Rasberry Pis in their legs. While that sounds like the bleeding edge, those computers were already v2 of a project called PegLeg. I was fortunate enough to see ...
Ubuntu 19.10 OS for Raspberry Pi
Arne Exton releases a new version of his Ubuntu/Debian-based RaspEX distro for the Raspberry Pi 4.