Can the Raspberry Pi 4 Replace a Desktop PC? Lets find out In this video I set up the Official Raspberry pi 4 Desktop Kit with dual 22” AOC monitors to see just how the Raspberry Pi 4 performs a Desktop PC of everyday use and the results are pretty good not that the Pi 4 has been out for hail and had a bit of time for the software to mature.
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This 3D Printed Flip Clock is Worth a Second Look
Flip clocks: they were cool long before Bill Murray was slapping one repeatedly in Groundhog Day, they were cool in 1993, and they’re still cool now. If you can’t find one on the secondhand market, you’re in luck, because [iz2k] has laid out an extensive blueprint for building a gorgeous retro-looking clock with some modern touches.
RaspberryPi 4 Rev 1.2 Fixes USB-C Power Issues, Improves SD Card Resilience
The first Raspberry Pi 4 boards suffered from a poor USB-C power supply compatibility due to issues for the power circuitry. That means if you bought the official USB-C power supply you had no issues, but if you wanted to re-use a spare USB-C power supply or incompatible cable, you may be out of luck.
The Register is now reporting that the Raspberry Pi Foundation has discreetly released a new revision (v1.2) of the board that fixes several issues including USB-C PD compatibility, and as Eben Upton explains the new revision also:
moved the WLCSP SD card voltage switch to the top side
… silk screen tweaks to reduce solder bridging in manufacture”.
The new boards have been around for a couple of months as some users report the USB-C power issues have been fixed on new boards.
Banana Pi M2 Zero: Low-Cost, Quad Core SBC
Banana Pi M2 Zero review, including comparisons with the Raspberry Pi Zero W and Raspberry Pi 3A+, demos in Armbian and Raspbian, and Sysbench test of all three boards.
OctoScreen – Octoprint RaspberryPi -Touch Screen Plugin – Chris’s Basement
We take a look at the Octoscreen plugin for Octoprint. This will enable the ability to use a touch screen hat for the raspberry pi. A nice simple interface for octoprint. This is how to get it set up and running.
CloverPI Clusters Up to 4 RaspberryPi Boards (Crowdfunding)
We’ve seen Raspberry Pi cluster boards before, and most of them either use Raspberry Pi Zero boards or Raspberry Pi Compute Modules. Some examples include Turing Pi Clusterboard for up to 7 RPi CM3 modules, Cluster HAT board taking up to 4 Pi Zero board, and Mininodes Raspberry Pi 3 COM Carrier Board.
But some other solutions like Bitscope rely instead on full-sized Raspberry Pi 2/3/4 Model B boards. Another such option is IPTerra CloverPI board allowing up to 4 Raspberry Pi or compatible boards with 40-pin header to be clustered into a single unit powered by one power supply and connected via a 5-port Gigabit Ethernet switch.
Install Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS on your RaspberryPi board
The Ubuntu team released the Ubuntu 18.04.4 Long Term Support operating system for Raspberry Pi 2 / 3 / 4 ARM single-board computers.
Introducing RaspberryPi Imager, their new imaging utility
We’ve made a simpler way to image your microSD card with Raspbian, the official Raspberry Pi operating system, and other operating systems. Introducing our new imaging utility, Raspberry Pi Imager.
RaspberryPi 4 Model B 2GB SBC Gets a Permanent Price Cut to $35, Effectively Retiring the 1GB
Dropping from $45 to $35, the 2GB model is now the logical entry-point into the Raspberry Pi 4 family.
Falling memory prices have brought an early birthday treat for fans of the Raspberry Pi family of single-board computers: The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B 2GB variant has now dropped to $35, the original price of the 1GB.
At launch the Raspberry Pi 4 family was available in three varieties, differentiated only by the capacity of the on-board LPDDR4 RAM: an entry-level 1GB, a mid-range 2GB, and a top-end 4GB. While it’s been available for less than a year, though, falling memory prices have resulted in a rethink that has seen the 2GB model’s price slashed to match that of the 1GB — making it the new entry point into the family.
