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Top 5 Raspberry Pi 3 Project Ideas – DZone News

Top 5 Raspberry Pi 3 Project Ideas DZone News The Raspberry Pi 3 can be used for loads of different projects, from feeding your pets to playing retro video games. RS Components put together an awesome quick video on Raspberry Pi project ideas that think a little more outside of the box

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Raspberry Pi Model A+ on sale now at $20

When we announced the Model B+ back in July, we said that we’d also be producing a lower-cost variant, analogous to the original Model A. Since then, James has been beavering away, and today we’re pleased to announce the release of the Raspberry Pi Model A+ at a new low price of $20 . Smaller, more energy-efficient and crazy-affordable Like the Model A, the Model A+ uses the BCM2835 application processor and has 256MB RAM, but it is significantly smaller (65mm in length, versus 86mm for the Model A), consumes less power , and inherits the many improvements that we made to the Model B+, including: More GPIO

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More QPU magic from Pete Warden

Back in June, we mentioned Pete Warden’s port of the Deep Belief image-recognition SDK to the Pi, which used the VideoCore IV QPUs to provide an accelerated GEMM matrix-multiply function. Since then, Pete’s been optimizing his code, and has reduced the time required to process an image to 3 seconds (versus 20 seconds for the baseline ARM implementation and 6 seconds for his original QPU version). Classifying dogs and their balls In the spirit of “leaving a trail of breadcrumbs through the forest”, Pete has written up an excellent summary of his experiences here

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Lance at TEDx Oxbridge

Lance Howarth is CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation, leading our charitable mission. People are sometimes surprised to learn that Raspberry Pi is a charity: every penny we make from selling the Pi goes into our charitable mission, where it’s used to support schools, train teachers , create resources and help fund other computing and learning initiatives. Back in May he gave a talk at TEDx Oxbridge , explaining what it is we’re up to here at Pi Towers, with help from Babbage the Bear and some rubber bands

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Two million Raspberry Pi’s sold…and counting – Muktware

Two million Raspberry Pi's sold…and counting Muktware So it was a bit of a shock at the end of last week when we got the latest sales figures and discovered that the 2,000,000th Raspberry Pi was sold in the last week of October.” Are you a blogger? Now you can make money from Muktware….check it out:

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From FishPi to LittleBox – a Kickstarter to turn your Pi into a desktop PC

Remember Greg Holloway, the mind behind FishPi? He did a guest post for us about a year ago (complete with kraken) about the difficulties of making an autonomous, solar powered, ocean-going robot . He’s now launched Littlebox , a Kickstarter for a DIY kit to turn your Pi into a desktop PC

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Matt Richardson and the world’s smartest bike light

Our friend Matt from Make (whom I totally failed to hook up with for drinks when we were in NYC last month – sorry Matt! We’ll see you at Maker Faire San Mateo) has been busy. This demo is absolutely superb

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Raspberry Leaf

Dr Simon Monk ( who has written a book on the Pi and Python – check it out on Amazon ) has come up with a really useful idea: a bit of paper you can install over the GPIO pins of your prototyping Pi (and leave there) to remind you which pin is which. The simplest ideas are the best, aren’t they

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