Category: Raspberry Pi
WD Labs introduces 314GB storage device for Raspberry Pi community
The WD PiDrive 314 GB HDD is designed to support the Raspberry Pi community Western Digital's WDLabs has announced a storage device engineered for the Raspberry Pi community with low-power USB operation. The WD PiDrive 314GB HDD is based on the high-volume Western Digital platform with design changes made specifically for Raspberry Pi. Customisations…
Happy Birthday Raspberry Pi! And welcome to the new Pi 3 with built in WiFi and Bluetooth
Raspberry Pi3 is released today, February 29th, 2016, complete with integrated Bluetooth and WiFi Today is the Raspberry Pi’s fourth birthday, and along with birthday wishes, we’re welcoming their newest addition on board, the new Pi 3. The new credit card sized model sized goes on sale today priced $35/£30, the…
BBC micro:bit computer – free to every year 7 child in UK from October
The BBC has unveiled the micro:bit, a pocket-sized codeable computer (pictured above) with built-in motion detection, compass and Bluetooth technology, which is to be given free to every child in year 7 or equivalent across the UK from October. That's approximately 1 million units. A collaboration between 29 partners, including Lancaster University, Barclays, Samsung and The…
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…
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…
Meet the Raspberry Pi 2 – 6x faster, will support Windows 10
Element 14 and Raspberry Pi has this morning announced the Raspberry Pi 2 - the follow-up to the wildly successful, super-cheap, super-portable, super-hackable PC. The Pi 2 builds on the success of the first device - boosting the processor up to a Broadcom BCM2836 ARMv7 Quad Core Processor - running at 900mhz. That's six times…
The Digest: Apple on trial… and 4 other things people are talking about today
[nextpage title="Next"] Apple 'deleted' rivals' music from iPods, court hears | BBC News "Apple has been accused by lawyers in a court case of 'deleting' songs from rival services from some iPods during the past decade. Users with non-iTunes music received a message telling them to restore devices to their factory settings when they tried…
