Bluetooth wireless comms are coming to the Raspberry Pi Pico W, the $6 wireless-enabled variant of the Pi Pico platform (which in turn is built on the RP2040 microcontroller).
Raspberry Pi Development
The latest Electronics Weekly news on the eductional Raspberry Pi development board, a “low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard keyboard and mouse”.
Raspberry Pi, Arduino motor their way to artistic alternative time display
I do like a complicated clock or a tortuous timepiece - displaying a time doesn't have to be straightforward! So I enjoyed seeing this artistic Raspberry Pi-based alternative time display...
Pimoroni Servo 2040 picks a mean rhythm guitar
Automated guitar picking action courtesy of a maker using a Pimoroni Servo 2040 - a board combining a RP2040 microcontroller and servo controllers, with CircuitPython for programming it.
Raspberry Pi powers MiPi rural emergency response system
We recently wrote about using a Raspberry Pi - with Flightradar24 - to track planes, and here is another use case for the versatile single-board computer: supporting rural emergency response teams, in the U.S. to save lives faster...
Raspberry Pi anticipates consistent million unit months
Raspberry Pi is on the way to consistent shipments of a million units a month. After shortages due to the chip supply situation, CEO Eben Upton has made the following statement: “We’ve been working hard to improve availability of Raspberry Pi products. Despite this, Q1 was actually our worst quarter since 2015, with roughly 800,000 units shipped: a good month’s ...
Raspberry Pi flight tracker takes off with Flightradar24
Thanks to the Raspberry Pi team for sharing this one - a Pi-based flight tracker. The idea is to receive signals, from aircraft transponders, and track flights.
PA Raspberry Pi compo addresses energy efficiency
The PA Raspberry Pi competition is a great challenge, aimed at schools, to solve problems using the single-board computer.
Pico Technology VNA software for PC, MAC, Linux and Raspberry Pi
USB instrument maker Pico Technology has re-written the host software for its head-less vector network analysers to run on PCs, Macs and Linux computers, and Raspberry Pi. Dubbed ‘PicoVNA 5’, and replacing the Windows-only PC-only ‘PicoVNA 3’ software, it “will run at speed on Linux, Windows and macOS, and PCs, Macs, and embedded systems, including Raspberry Pi 3”, according to ...
Raspberry Pi Pico Advanced Kit packs 32 sensor modules
ELECROW's Raspberry Pi Pico Advanced Kit is for people who already have some electronics knowledge and programming skill but want to learn or explore the Raspberry Pi's capabilities
element 14 celebrates Pi-Day
element14 is celebrating Pi-Day with the Sci-Pi Design Challenge, encouraging makers, designers and engineers to solve problems by using Raspberry Pi. Once selected, each of the 25 sponsored participants will receive a free challenger kit which includes a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B to build into their projects. The Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is the latest product in the ...