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”.
Roey Benamotz has created the Lean Mean Programming Machine (LEMPA) – an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that includes all the sockets, jumpers, and indicator LEDs necessary to successfully flash a whole suite of popular MCUs. Benamotz has also written a Python tool that handles all the nuances of getting the firmware written out. After you’ve configured the JSON file ...
Hackers causing havoc, demanding ransomeware and stealing information can be tracked by the combination of Raspberry Pi and the open source programme OpenCanary, says Another Maker on YouTube. The notification system sends email alerts when it detects potential threats. The information shows what IP address was used and where the potential breach took place.
Seeed Studio has come up with a dual SATA HAT for Raspberry Pi 4. This is a Pi Hat for Raspberry Pi 4 with SATA port which can insert HDD/SSD for extra storage. Up to 2x HDD/SSD´s – 2.5 or 3.5inch storage is supported Utilizes two independent USB3 buses on Raspberry Pi 4 Type C power input with USB PD/QC support ...
Farnell has extended its range of Raspberry Pi accessories with the addition of five new language variants of the Raspberry Pi keyboard, a 10.1” touchscreen from Multicomp Pro and a new range of HATs (hardware-attached tops) from Pimoroni allowing designers, educationalists, makers and hobbyists to add more functionality to their projects. These new product introductions will offer users increased ease ...
Raspberry Pi has come up with a Japanese keyboard. It required a new moulding set to cover the 83-key arrangement of the keys. It’s quite a complex keyboard, with three different character sets to deal with. ‘Figuring out how the USB keyboard controller maps to all the special keys on a Japanese keyboard was particularly challenging, with most web searches ...
Farnell is now shipping pi-top [4] – a programmable computing device to support digital making, coding and practical projects for educators and students, as well as makers and inventors. Suitable for multiple learning environments in school, at home or in the community; students can develop key skills including coding and circuit design, as well as increasingly in-demand soft skills such ...
Raspberry Pi is adopting the OpenVX 1.3 API to improve computer vision. The open and royalty-free API comes from the Khronos Group whose members include AMD, Apple, Arm, Epic Games, Google, Samsung, Intel, Nvidia, Boeing and IKEA. “The Khronos Group and Raspberry Pi have come together to work on an open-source implementation of OpenVX 1.3, which passes the conformance on ...
A LoRaWAN Gateway with RAK2245 Pi HAT on a Raspberry Pi 4 mini PC is described on Hackster.io by Attila Tőkés. The RAK2245 is a Raspberry Pi HAT featuring a LoRaWAN multichannel concentrator module (SX1301) and a GPS module (Ublox MAX-7Q). There are multiple versions with support for all the major frequency regions (EU433, CN470, IN865, EU868, AU915, US915, KR920, ...
The software developer Ventz has come up with a way to run streaming video on a Raspberry Pi. Normally, using Chromium, the default browser in Raspberry Pi OS, results in paid streaming services such as Netflix, HBO Go and Disney+ not working, because the DRM software is incompatible with the ARM version of the browser. YouTube videos don’t suffer from ...
Farnell is launching a new variant of the Raspberry Pi 4 Model B computer with 8Gbyte of on-board memory, offering double the capacity of the existing high-end model. The additional memory improves the performance of data-intensive applications, making the 8Gbyte version an attractive solution for general desktop computer users, hobbyists and makers, and professional developers alike. Offering a balance of ...
