Raspberry Pi Development

Farnell element14 has brought out Pi Desktop - a kit that converts a Raspberry Pi into a fully featured and packaged desktop computer.

Some of the brightest innovators from UK schools gathered at PA Consulting Group’s annual Raspberry Pi coding competition final in London.

The Raspberry Pi foundation launches the Raspberry Pi Zero W, a wireless-enabled version of the 65 x 30mm Zero launched in 2015.

PC giant Asus has jumped on the Raspberry Pi bandwagon with Tinker Board.

The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3 has a quad core 64bit ARM Cortex-A53 processor running at up to 1.2GHz, within the original Compute Module form-factor.

RS Components has signed a distribution agreement with Adafruit, which supplies hardware, tools, equipment and electronics to makers and hobbyists. RS already stocks a number of Adafruit products, and the new deal extends this to the entire line up of current Adafruit products, including its boards and accessories for Raspberry Pi and Arduino. These will be available to RS customers ...

NEC  has adopted Raspberry Pi as a standard internal display peripheral “enabling a seamless integration of Raspberry Pi’s devices with NEC’s displays”, said NEC. In this case, it is the third-generation Raspberry Pi Compute Module – an industrial computer with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 processor. “The latest Raspberry Pi 3 compute module boasts significant performance and networking capabilities,” said NEC. ...

Canadian company Allo has created a HAT-compliant Hi-Fi audio stack for Raspberry Pi. It features: 2x50W stereo amplifier, DAC+headphone amplifier, re-clocker and the firm's own Sparky single-board computer.

Two camera add-ons for the Raspberry Pi 3 now offer 8megapixel resolution. An integrated image sensor also enables the computer board to capture 3280 x 2464 pixel static images. The Raspberry Pi Camera v2 and Raspberry Pi NoIR Camera v2 modules which measure 25mm x 35mm x9mm are available from element14. The v2 cameras have the same video capability as ...

Raspberry Pi, element14 and RS Components have announced Raspberry Pi 3, based around a quad core 64-bit processor. “Four years ago today, we launched the first Raspberry Pi with our friends at Premier Farnell. Today we’re launching Raspberry Pi 3: it’s still $35 and it’s still the size of your credit card, but now it comes with on-board wireless LAN and ...