BetaNews Raspberry Pi Zero W ships 250000 units, announces new distributors BetaNews This significantly extends the reach we can achieve with Pi Zero and Pi Zero W across the globe.
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Raspberry Pi Zero W ships 250000 units, announces new distributors – BetaNews
Local government CCTV is awful, and it’s everywhere in the UK. But I’m much happier about surveillance in the hands of private people – it’s a matter of quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who watches the watchmen?), and I’m pleased to see the Raspberry Pi bring the price of networked motion-sensitive HD surveillance cameras down to be affordable by consumers. Off the shelf, you’re looking at prices in the hundreds of pounds
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Turn your Pi into a low-cost HD surveillance cam
We are firm believers in the idea that computing starts to get really interesting – interesting enough to suck in people who have never programmed before – when you begin interfacing software with real things made out of atoms. That’s why there are GPIO pins on the Pi (another reason you should never tread on one with bare feet). Here are some resources to get you started with some real-world hacking: namely, hacking your car.
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Carputers – some ideas to get you started
Raspberry Pi Model A (you know, the $25 one) finally on sale in US Ars Technica Eben Upton, the founder of Raspberry Pi , wrote Ars to say that the Model A is “now on sale worldwide.
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Raspberry Pi Model A (you know, the $25 one) finally on sale in US – Ars Technica
We’ve just had an email from one of our distributors: I have noticed an increase in the quantity of returns where it’s claimed by the customer that the Pi will not boot. My view is that in the majority of instances they are attempting to use the unit with an OS that is not compatible with the Hynix chip, often inserting a card from a Pi they already have which reinforces the view in their mind that the new unit is faulty
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