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Pimoroni Launches a Wealth of Raspberry Pi Pico Pack, Base Add-Ons — and Teases a Wi-Fi Pack, Too
From compact displays to RGB LED keypads, and a handy ESP32-powered Wi-Fi adapter, Pimoroni’s gone heavy into the Pico ecosystem.
Hands-On with the RP2040 and Pico, the First In-House Silicon and Microcontroller From Raspberry Pi
The RP2040, Raspberry Pi’s first in-house silicon, debuts on the Raspberry Pi Pico, its first microcontroller board — and it’s just $4.
The launch of the original Raspberry Pi in 2012 was the dawn of a new era of low-cost, easy-access single-board computers (SBCs). In the years since the Raspberry Pi family has grown both upwards, now on its fourth full generation, and outwards with a range of devices from the ultra-low-cost Raspberry Pi Zero family to the consumer-ready all-in-one Raspberry Pi 400.
The PiBoy CM4 & SRX Are Coming! New Pi Powered Handheld Leaked!
In this video, we take a look at some new Raspberry Pi Powered Retro Handhelds that are probably coming soon or in the works! I received an email recently with some images of what seems to be a Raspberry CM4 handheld and a Raspberry Pi 4 handheld know as the PiBoy CM4x and The PiBoy XRS and these look amazing! Keep in mind I have no information on pricing or release dates but I wanted to share the information that has right now with anyone who is interested!
Portal SNES using a RaspberryPi and our PinkyPi X build – Shared by Joshua
Check out this amazing SNES portal built by one of our new members Joshua
“I modified a Super Nintendo controller to build a custom SNES Portable. Raspberry Pi Zero build. Checkout Part 2 – https://youtu.be/I4JuMUpMiAg“
Zack Freedman Built a Tiny RaspberryPi Gaming PC That Plays Crysis!
Miniaturized gaming PCs are all the rage right now and Zack Freedman’s Coccolith is one of the best we’ve seen.
There is a fun trend going on right now with people using single-board computers (SBCs) to create tiny, functional scale models of their full-size desktop gaming PCs. These aren’t capable of reaching anywhere close to the performance of their larger brethren, but that isn’t the goal. The objective is to recreate all of the details as faithfully as possible, all the way down to itty bitty RAM sticks and hard drives in some cases. Zack Freedman wanted to get in on the fad, but took things to the next level by miniaturizing his entire computer setup. The result is “Coccolith,” which is a 1/4 scale model of his main “Monolith” PC, complete with monitor, keyboard, and mouse.
Turn A RaspberryPi 4 Into A PLEX Media Server
In this video, we show you how to turn a Raspberry Pi 4 into a PLEX Media Server for Streaming Videos, Movies, Music, and Photos from the Pi4 to any other device that supports PLEX like an Nvidia Shield Amazon Fire stick, Android TV android tablets or phones and even iPads and iPhones. This method is pretty simple and along with your Raspberry Pi PLEX media server, you also have access to a full desktop operating system Ubuntu 20.10 or higher.
DIY Raspberry Pi 4 Desktop Case With OLED Stats Display
In this video, I’ll show you how to make your own Raspberry Pi 4 case which looks like a Mini Desktop Computer. The case houses the Raspberry Pi 4 with an Ice Tower fitted for cooling and has a small OLED display on the front which shows the computer’s IP address as well as some stats on the CPU, memory, and storage usage as well as the CPU temperature. The power, HDMI, and audio ports are accessible on the side and the USB and Ethernet ports are accessible on the front of the case.
If you’d like to build your own case, here is the step by step guide with the 3D print file, side templates, and code – https://www.the-diy-life.com/diy-rasp…
PiWatcher TB Is a Raspberry Pi Watchdog
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A well-worth-the-buy Raspberry Pi peripheral device is now available on Tindie, Omzlo’s PiWatcher TB, a small board made to automatically shut down or reboot your Pi when needed. Useful in case of incident or just for power saving purposes, the board can even be programmed to shut an Pi down and automatically reboot it a set amount of time later, whether that means a few minutes or a few hours.
Simply put, the PiWatcher TB is a watchdog circuit for the Raspberry Pi. It is a variation on Omzlo’s classic PiWatcher also available on Tindie. It is designed to solve two problems with regard to power management on Pis: wasteful power usage due to incomplete shutdown following a shutdown or halt command and recovery from situations in which the Pi has become stuck in an unrecoverable state. For the first, the watchdog circuit can be configured to fully cut power following a shutdown command. For the second, it can be programmed to power cycle should it not read a heartbeat from the device after a set period of time.
Jeff Geerling Squeezes 4.15Gb/s From a RaspberryPi Compute Module 4 Using a PCIe Network Card
Jeff Geerling has succeeded in pulling over 4Gb/s of data from a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4, by hooking up a four-port Ethernet card to its PCI Express bus — and the same may well be possible on a modified Raspberry Pi 4, too.
Launched last month, the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 takes the core technology found in the popular Raspberry Pi 4 Model B and brings it to a system-on-module (SoM) form factor. The biggest shift from the original design, though, comes with making the USB 3.0 ports optional and replacing them with a fully-functional PCI Express Gen. 2 lane — suitable for all manner of add-on boards, providing you can find suitable drivers for the Arm architecture.