Adding PCI Express to the Raspberry Pi 4

When I sat down with Eben Upton ahead of the launch of the Raspberry Pi 4, Model B last month, the first question I asked when he told me that the new Raspberry Pi had PCI Express was, “…are you exposing the pins for that?

The answer was of course, “No.

Despite that, I went ahead and made a private bet with myself that someone, somewhere, would hack something together to get access to the PCI Express bus on the Raspberry Pi within the first month after the launch.

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Tiny 10-Gram Tribots Slide, Jump, and Work as a Team

When you think of advanced robotics, you may envision a roughly human-sized system with a powerful processor or processors, an array of sensors, and multiple physical manipulators. Such robots are impressive, and are used in a wide range of applications, but when you’re putting all of your eggs in one basket — whether its an industrial assembly cell or a rescue operation — if it breaks, you’ve got a big problem.

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Here’s John Wick reimagined as a brutally difficult, free NES game

You can currently royally battle as John Wick, and you’ll soon be able to tactically whack goons in the upcoming John Wick Hex, but where’s the straightforward shoot-’em-up inspired by the meteorically popular Keanu-Reeves-starring action films?

It’s here, kinda, in John Wick, which is John Wick but as a run-and-gun NES shooter. Made with art assets created for a fake NES version of the film, developer MuriloDev has created an actually playable game. On its normal difficulty setting, I managed about four or five enemies before collapsing into a Wicky heap, but there is an easy option, perhaps less authentic to the traditional NES experience.

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