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”.
Farnell is shipping the new Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera with a 12-megapixel ultra-definition-resolution camera and interchangeable lenses. The camera is the first-of-its-kind to hit the market and is ideal for professional and consumer applications which require the highest levels of visual fidelity and integration with specialist optics. The camera can effectively capture still images and video footage. It is compatible ...
The University of Bath has designed an open-source medical-grade microscope that can be made for as little as £15 in its most basic form Called OpenFlexure microscope, “it is unique among 3D-printed microscope in its ability to yield high-quality images,” according to the university.” It has been designed to be easy to use, with an intuitive software interface and simplified ...
The Raspberry Pi Foundation updates camera support with the Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera module.
RetroPie 4.6 has been launched with official support for Raspberry Pi 4. RetroPie 4.6 has moved to Raspbian Buster as a base for its pre-built Raspberry Pi images. Raspbian Stretch is no longer supported by Raspberry Pi Trading Ltd. RetroPie will continue to support Stretch for a while longer, but will likely stop updating binaries for it later this year. ...
The Turing Pi cluster board is available for preorder from Turing Machines Inc. This Mini-ITX-sized motherboard can support up to seven Raspberry Pi Compute Modules, essentially creating a server rack. The Turing Pi board has support for the Kubernetes environment. It’s suitable for things like machine learning, cloud environments, application testing and serverless stacks. The board features a variety of ...
pi-top launches Sensor Pods for use with its Raspberry Pi mini-computer in building a range of projects.
After a surge in Q1 sales, Raspberry Pi is increasing production from Q1’s 192,000 units to 250,000 units in Q2. 1.75 million Pis were sold in Q1 and 640,000 were sold in March. Pi boss Eben Upton said the increase demand came from people using them for home schooling and companies using them to implement home remote working. There have ...
A project to build a Google Home device using a Raspberry Pi has been described by Jamie McKane. With a minimal amount of hardware and setup, you can create a functioning home assistant linked to your Google account and controlled by voice commands. Follow the steps below to install the Google Assistant SDK on your Raspberry Pi and set it ...
Breakout boards from Pimoroni add audio output, sensor and motor control to Raspberry Pi and Arduino boards. The boards are now available from Mouser Electronics. Pimoroni designs and manufactures products for makers, educators and creatives. It is supported by the Raspberry Pi and wider maker communities and says its mission is to make electronics “accessible and attractive and spread knowledge, ...
Radxa has announced the ROCK Pi SATA HAT, a series of SATA expansion targeting at the NAS solution for Raspberry Pi 4 and ROCK Pi 4. The ROCK Pi SATA HATs come in 3 models: Dual/Quad SATA HAT Penta SATA HAT The Dual/Quad SATA HAT is designed for Raspberry Pi 4 as well as ROCK Pi 4, and the Penta SATA ...
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