Monthly Archives: December 2017

Laptop with Raspberry Pi Inside Learns to Speak Battery – Hackaday

Hackaday Laptop with Raspberry Pi Inside Learns to Speak Battery Hackaday Communications use the 2-wire System Management Bus (SMBus) which is well documented. But the when trying to use the Pi's I2C [Frank] couldn't figure out to send a repeated start command. He ended up writing his own C program that bit-bangs the …

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Raspberry Pi sized SBC runs Linux on single-core Cortex-A53 SoC – LinuxGizmos.com

LinuxGizmos.com Raspberry Pi sized SBC runs Linux on single-core Cortex-A53 SoC LinuxGizmos.com Scalys announced a “Grapeboard” SBC that runs Linux on NXP's single-core -A53 LS1012A SoC, and offers dual GbE and WiFi/BT, plus PCIe, USB 3.0, and SATA via M.2 connectors.

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[H]ardOCP: DIY Retro-Arcade Machine with Raspberry Pi – HardOCP

[H]ardOCP: DIY Retro-Arcade Machine with Raspberry Pi HardOCP This is a very interesting worklog that is chronicled over at OCInside in English, if you are into the whole retro-gaming thing. The hardware to build this type of arcade machine is abundant so the whole DIY path is blank slate for your imagination … and more »

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DIY Retro-Arcade Machine with Raspberry Pi – HardOCP

DIY Retro-Arcade Machine with Raspberry Pi HardOCP No matter if you decide for a Raspberry Pi with Retropie or Recalbox software or if you build a small ITX PC or a fully grown full size ATX PC with a Windows or Linux based Mame emulator, at the end you need the right ROM download to play Frogger, Pac …

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PiTalk Offers a Modular Smartphone for Raspberry Pi – ENGINEERING.com

ENGINEERING.com PiTalk Offers a Modular Smartphone for Raspberry Pi ENGINEERING.com Several internet of things applications and ideas for apps are also on the campaign page, but nothing completely new. One thing I'd love to see from this idea that isn't present yet is casing. As a company I've known SB for its Pi project cases in a …

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Best Raspberry Pi 3 kits: 8 options for beginners and experienced makers – PCWorld

PCWorld Best Raspberry Pi 3 kits: 8 options for beginners and experienced makers PCWorld The Raspberry Pi is an incredibly flexible little computer. You can use it for a wide range of projects ranging from the pragmatic to the innovative to the nostalgic—the same hardware can power a retro gaming setup as readily as an ad-blocking server …

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Fast 3D Printing with Raspberry Pi — But Not How You Think – Hackaday

Fast 3D Printing with Raspberry Pi — But Not How You Think Hackaday Although we tend to think of 3D printers as high-tech toys, most of them are not especially powerful in the brain department. There are some exceptions, but most 3D printers run on either an 8-bit Arduino or some Arduino variant with a lot of I/O ..

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UKFast plans to open Raspberry Pi cafes in Manchester schools – ZDNet

ZDNet UKFast plans to open Raspberry Pi cafes in Manchester schools ZDNet Students in the Raspberry Pi cafe at Broadoak school in Partington. Image credit: UKFast. UKFast, a cloud-hosting company based in Manchester, plans to invest £100,000 in opening another five Raspberry Pi cafes in schools in the Greater Manchester area ..

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Best Raspberry Pi 3 cases: 10 great options to dress up your mini PC – PCWorld

PCWorld Best Raspberry Pi 3 cases: 10 great options to dress up your mini PC PCWorld You don't have to buy a case for a Raspberry Pi 3, but doing so makes the experience that much nicer. That's particularly so if you plan to use your Pi as a home-theater PC or even a secondary desktop. A whole sea of options exist out there, though …

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Thank you for my new Raspberry Pi, Santa! What next?

Note: the Pi Towers team have peeled away from their desks to spend time with their families over the festive season, and this blog will be quiet for a while as a result. We’ll be back in the New Year with a bushel of amazing projects, awesome resources, and much merriment and fun times. Happy holidays to all! Now back to the matter at hand.

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