Tag: Raspberry Pi
Tech Digest daily roundup: Raspberry Pi seals $45m investment
The organisation behind Britain's bestselling personal computer - the Raspberry Pi - has sealed a $45m (£33m) investment after demand surged during the pandemic. The trading arm of the Raspberry Pi Foundation has offloaded stakes to Lansdowne Partners and the Ezrah Charitable Trust in a move that values the operation at around $500m. The foundation is…
Microsoft store will ‘engage the whole community’, boss says
Microsoft’s first physical retail store in the UK will be used as a hub for the local community, the tech giant’s UK boss has said. Cindy Rose said the new three-floor flagship store in London’s Oxford Circus would offer digital workshops and help to small businesses as part of plans to “engage with the community”.…
Driverless cars can work together to keep traffic moving, research finds
A fleet of driverless cars working together to keep traffic moving smoothly could improve overall vehicle flow by at least a third, a study using scale models has shown. A team of researchers at Cambridge University programmed 16 miniature robotic cars to drive around a two-lane track and observed how the traffic flow changed when…
Is CHIP the new Pi? $9 computer raises $600,000 and counting on Kickstarter
The $35 Rasberry Pi was truly revolutionary when it first came out. But is there now a new kid on the build-your-own PC block called CHIP. Although it's easy to get excited by Kickstarter campaigns - many of which seem to be little more than publicity campaigns for companies that have ample funding from elsewhere -…
Raspberry Pi is going to SPACE!
British Astronaut Tim Peake has tweeted a photo of himself today wearing a Raspberry Pi t-shirt - and a reminder that the tiny computer will be blasting off with him when he goes up to the International Space Station. Its all part of the "AstroPi" competition, which is encouraging kids to submit code to be…
Check out this awesome “magic” mirror
The brilliant thing about the Raspberry Pi is that it is so small it can be stuffed into almost anything - like this mirror that has been hacked together by developer Michael Teeuw. It functions as both a mirror and a sort-of heads-up display offering weather updates, news, a clock and even a compliment in…
Check out this amazing Google Now powered LED coffee table (!)
What's brilliant about the likes of the Raspberry Pi and Arduino is that it makes hacking together your own gadgets pretty straightforward. Check out the above video showing Mikel Duke's coffee table - which features an array of LED lights that can be controlled through voice on his smartphone. Here's how it works: "This a…
Graphics stack change paves the way for Android on Raspberry Pi
Could Android soon be available for Raspberry Pi? That's the speculation following the announcement that the Raspberry Pi Foundation is working on a completely open source graphics stack for the diminutive computer. According to Reddit, RPi's Eric Anholt is working on open sourcing the graphics drivers - which means that eventually it'll be possible for…
6 Easy Things To Do With Raspberry Pi 2
[nextpage title="Next"] So you've picked up a brand new Raspberry Pi 2 - but what to do with it? Thankfully the possibilities are endless - but what should you do first? Here's some straightforward projects to try on your new toy. [/nextpage] [nextpage title="Next"] 1) Turn your Raspberry Pi into a Web Server If you…
REVIEW: Raspberry Pi 2
When the original Raspberry Pi was first announced, its creators spoke of how they wanted to recreate the bedroom coding culture of the 1980s - whereby individuals coding alone could learn to code with ease, and possibly even create the Next Big Thing. On this score then, the Pi has been an undoubted success as…