Life goals: stick a Raspberry Pi in an old TV, stereo or clock
Christian Cawley listicled 10 old devices upcycled to house a Raspberry Pi (including the Tomy toy dashboard OutRun previously at BB). Embedded above is a Pi, with a wee LCD monitor, embedded in a...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi 4
The fourth incarnation of the wonderful Raspberry Pi is upon us. A faster quard-core CPU, up to 4GB of RAM, gigabit ethernet and dual HDMI outputs are the upgrades; there's USB-C too, but just for...
View ArticleLow price on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+
This is the lowest price I've seen for a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ single board computer. It has a 1.4GHz 64-bit quad-core processor, WiFi, Bluetooth, and Ethernet. These Pis are great for playing retro video...
View ArticleVideo tutorial on how to play retro video games with a Raspberry Pi
In this video from Pi My Life Up you'll learn how to install and use software called RetroPie on a Raspberry Pi. RetroPie lets you emulate a bunch of different game platforms, like Atari 2600, Sega...
View ArticleMaking a flying saucer clock (with data storage) controlled by a Raspberry Pi
I love this strange and wonderful project on Hackaday.io. It is digital clock which uses a ring of 60 NeoPixels in a 3D printed flying saucer and 12 lights on the inner ring to indicate the hours. It...
View ArticleReview of Raspberry Pi's 7-inch touchscreen display
The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently introduced a low-cost 7-inch touchscreen display for the Pi (compatible with all models expect the Pi 1). It's a great display for retro-games and other projects....
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Here's a Raspberry Pi Zero case that looks like a Game Boy and lets you play...
The RetroFlag GPi Case, which uses a Raspberry Pi Zero, looks very nice. In this video, MakeUseOf gives it a 9/10 score. If the idea of making retro game players using Raspberry Pis appeals to you, I...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi operating system looks like OS X
iRaspian is a Linux OS for the Raspberry Pi that looks a lot like the Mac OS X operating system. It also comes with Mac OS 9.2 and Windows 95 emulators.
View ArticleThis Raspberry Pi retro gaming kit comes with 100 licensed Atari games
ETA Prime reviewed a Raspberry Pi retro gaming kit that contains a Raspberry Pi 3B+, a case for the Pi, USB gamepad, power supply, 32GB Micro SD with 100+ licensed Atari Games, and an HDMI cable to...
View ArticleFree download of MagPi - Raspberry Pi project magazine
The latest issue of The MagPi is out, and you can get a free PDF. The projects in this issue look like fun! Build a Raspberry Pi 4 games console. We’ve got the best cases, awesome controllers, and easy...
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This operating system skin for Raspberry Pi looks like Mac OSX
In this video, ETA Prime shows you how to set up a Raspberry Pi with the ApplePiOS BigSur Edition.
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Industrial Pi
I'd just like to show you the glorious design of the Kunbus Revolution Pi [kunbus.com], which it markets as the "industrial Raspberry Pi" alongside a variety of modular add-ons. It is clearly not...
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Adafruit to offer the Raspberry Pi 400 in the US
On Monday, Rob wrote about the new Raspberry Pi 400 computer-in-a-keyboard. The computer by itself sells for US$70 and there's a full kit with mouse, guidebook, cables, etc. for $100. The rub was that...
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Here's an unboxing, teardown, and review of the new $80 Raspberry Pi 400...
The Raspberry Pi 400 is an $80 all-in-one keyboard computer. Plug it into a monitor and you've got a decent Linux computer. In this video, Howchoo unboxes one, puts it together and tears it down....
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A water-cooled, overclocked Raspberry Pi 4
Michael Klements retrofitted a PC water cooling kit to chill out an overclocked Raspberry Pi 4. "Just to be clear," he writes, "this is totally unnecessary and is more of a let's do it because we can,...
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This LEGO machine can sort any kind of LEGO
We've covered AI used to sort LEGO previously, but Daniel West has taken it one step further and built what he says is the world's first universal LEGO sorting machine: Over two years in the making,...
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Hackaday takes a close look at Raspberry Pi's new $4 microcontroller, the Pico
Pico is the new $4 Raspberry Pi microcontroller board. It looks amazing for the price. Hackaday posted a detailed description of it. The microcontroller in question, the RP2040, is also Raspberry Pi's...
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The new and tiny Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect is wireless, has a built-in...
The new Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect ($24.50) is a feature-packed little microcontroller. Look at how small it is compared to my trusty Arduino Uno (top photo). It has a built-in mic so you can use it...
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A bat detector made with a Raspberry Pi
If you've run out of bat detectors but the bat detector store has already closed for the day, fret not! Here is kryptonaut's report about constructing a bat detector with a Raspberry Pi and other...
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Raspberry Pi just released a new $15 Pi Zero 2 single board computer
Hurray! There's a new Raspberry Pi. It's a tiny Zero 2 ($15) and comes with signification upgrades over the previous Zero. For starters, it's five times faster. If you don't know what you can do with a...
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The CrowPi is a combination Linux laptop and Raspberry Pi explorer's kit
The CrowPi2 looks like an ordinary laptop with an 11.6-inch screen with 1080p resolution, but it's also a nifty Raspberry Pi experimentation and learning platform. You can remove the wireless keyboard...
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Making an old USB printer support Apple AirPrint with a Raspberry Pi
Printers compatible with Apple's AirPrint will print files from macOS and iOS devices without having to install printer-specific drivers. I have an old WiFi printer that doesn't work with AirPrint,...
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Putting together a "smart mirror" for your bathroom
In this video, well-known maker Becky Stern adds a little magic to her bathroom with a smart mirror (previously) that can display things like weather data, traffic, pollen count, daily calendar, and...
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Raspberry Pi Pico W brings wireless to its tiny $6 board
Behold the Raspberry Pi Pico W: a tiny single-board computer with WiFi (802.11n) and a $6 price tag. What are you going to put one inside? At its heart is the RP2040 microcontroller, built on TSMC's...
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How to build a Magic AI Storybook with a Raspberry Pi and ChatGPT
The Magic AI Storybook combines technology, storytelling, and craft to create a book that generates an unlimited number of stories. It uses a Raspberry Pi running ChatGPT connected to a seven-inch...
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Turning a pickup truck into a giant dot matrix printer
In a new YouTube video, Ryder Calm Down, a creative technologist and software engineer, shows off a wild idea he came up with. He turned his pickup truck into a big printer that can write on the road,...
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Raspberry Pi 5, finally
The Raspberry Pi 5, $60 for the 4GB model and $80 for the 8GB one, offers upgrades across the board on the four-year-old RPi4: dual 4k@60hz output, USB-C, 800 megabit-per-second SD card support, and...
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Raspberry Pi 5 deemed powerful
A Raspberry Pi 5 is better than two of its predecessors, the 4S, reports Hackaday's Elliot Williams. All in all, most everything performance-related has been doubled or halved appropriately, and...
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Rotary phone repurposed with a Raspberry Pi
British hacker Rob Miles guts an old rotary phone to make a networked assistant by adding a Raspberry Pi single-board computer. There's lots of nerdy details for interested hobbyists. I wonder why the...
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PiDock converts a Raspberry Pi 400 into a laptop
The Raspberry Pi 400 is a keyboard with a single-board computer built-in, like the old 8-bits of yore. The PiDock is a display+trackpad caddy for it which converts it into a laptop. A bulky and not...
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