Raspberry Pi Development

Farnell element14 has launched two IoT starter kits, at Embedded World 2016, featuring energy harvesting wireless sensors from EnOcean, one of them including the Raspberry Pi micro-computer board.

Raspberry Pi just got smaller and ridiculously cheap. Raspberry Pi Zero measures just 65mm x 30mm with a height profile of 5mm, it is the smallest form factor Pi available. And it costs just $5. It is a slimmed down Raspberry Pi Zero so there is only one Micro USB data port and a Mini HDMI port which supports full HD 1080P output. ...

Raspberry Pi may have been slow to announce support for Google’s IoT open source development platform, but it is only a matter of time before the tiny computer embraces Brillo. Google’s bid to bring its Android OS into the orbit of the internet of things come with a developer kit for building testing and debugging. If Microsoft recognises the importance of ...

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Intel has made its big bid to grab a share of the educational computer board market and it has Raspberry Pi firmly in its sights. The processor giant is not creating a small format computer board for the maker and education markets from scratch. It has teamed up with the organisation behind the Arduino board. Arduino will give Intel a ...

There was a time when multi-room audio - streaming music to multiple rooms in the house with control from anywhere - was only for the well-off, or the extraordinarily ingenious.

A new, improved Raspberry Pi has been announced, the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. It features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU running at 900MHz (for a 6x performance boost on the first generation Raspberry Pi Model B+) and 1GB of LPDDR2 SDRAM (for a 2x memory increase). We’ve covered this story around the site, exhaustively. Check out the original announcement, ...

Element14 has a hi-fi audio card for Model A+ and B+ Raspberry Pis. The circuit is almost the same as the ‘Wolfson’ hi-fi board for the Model A and B – Cirrus bought Wolfson a while ago. A bespoke version of Raspian is available. See more on the Electronics Weekly news site. Its audio card for the A and B ...

Raspberry Pi can now be powered via an Ethernet connection using a 5V power over Ethernet (PoE) add-on adaptor board. Silvertel has released a circuit and PCB layout for a 5V PoE adapter board and the information is available for free download and use by any manufacturer of accessories or general hobbyists. Powering any 5V device, up to a power of 9W, it is suitable for ...

The Raspberry Pi Foundation has up-graded the Raspberry Pi Model B but, for industrial users, “we’ll be keeping Model B in production for as long as there’s demand for it”, said the Foundation’s Eben Upton. The new version, called B+, costs £20 and uses less power. “We’ve been blown away by the projects that have been made possible through the ...