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Future of Raspberry Pi - Compute Module 5 and beyond

Catwell

The Compute Module 5 features a Broadcom BCM2712 SoC with up to 16GB LPPDR4 ECC memory and up to 64GB eMMC flash. (Image credit: Raspberry Pi) The Raspberry Pi Foundation has officially launched its new Compute Module 5 (CM5), which shares the same ...
- 10 Dec 2024
Introducing the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5

e14phil

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 is a system on module that delivers the power of Raspberry Pi 5 in a form factor ideal for embedded applications. Priced from $45 and featuring a quad-core Arm Cortex-A76 processor, dual 4Kp60 HDMI output, Gigabit Ether...
- 27 Nov 2024
Raspberry Pi Pico W Mecanum Wheel Car Kit

ralphjy

Prime Day rolled around again two weeks ago and it was a good opportunity to find a toy that I could build for my grandson. I bought a Freenove Mecanum Wheel 4WD Car Kit for the Raspberry Pi Pico. I was able to get it for $39.96 since...
- 22 Oct 2024
Raspberry Pi AI Camera - with the Sony IMX500

e14phil

The AI Camera is built around a Sony IMX500 image sensor with an integrated AI accelerator. It can run a wide variety of popular neural network models, with low power consumption and low latency, leaving the processor in your Raspberry Pi free to pe...
- 30 Sep 2024
Arducam PiNSIGHT - OAK-SoM AI Camera

ralphjy

This year has been a difficult one for me in terms of having time to do projects and try out new hardware. Back in mid-February I pre-ordered an Arducam PiNSIGHT which was selling for a $30 discount from its normal $99.99 price. I've...
- 30 Sep 2024
Using an RPi Camera Module 3 with the RPi5 AI Kit

ralphjy

I recently purchased an RPi5 AI Kit from Sparkfun. They had been out of stock for a while but are currently available at multiple distributors. The kit bundles the M.2 HAT+ with a Hailo-8L AI acceleration module. The ...
- 29 Sep 2024
External Antenna for Raspberry Pi 4

aswinvenu

Introduction For one of the Raspberry Pi projects I have been working on had this specific requirement for an external antenna. The entire Raspberry Pi 4 needs to be placed inside a metal box. So external antenna was the only...
- 22 Sep 2024
FreeRTOS Stream and Message Buffer on Raspberry Pico: specialised to handle interrupt-to-task and multi-core messages

Jan Cumps

The Stream (and Message) Buffer is one of the more recent additions to FreeRTOS. A construct that's useful in specific (yet commons) situations: moving data from an interrupt (e.g.: UART TX interrupt) to an RTOS task for processing in a multi-core s...
- 21 Sep 2024
New Flavor of Pi? Raspberry Pi 5 2GB

e14phil

Introducing the 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 Raspberry Pi 5 2GB built on a cost-optimised D0 stepping of the BCM2712 application processor, and priced at just $50. In what could be called a "Good Monday Morning", Raspberry Pi have excitedly release t...
- 19 Aug 2024
P42 Pico M.2: A RPI Pico RP2040 board in new form factor.

wolfgangfriedrich

So, after carrying this idea around since October last year, I finally got my act together and designed/built my RPI Pico RP2040 M.2 dev-board. It is a M.2 2230 card with A and E key and has as many communication interfaces to the M.2 side as possibl...
- 10 Aug 2024
Pimoroni Pico Plus 2: A First Look at an RP2350 Board

shabaz

I wanted to try to use the new RP2530 microcontroller, but the 'normal' board, the Pi Pico 2, is out of stock for a week or two. However, there are Pimoroni Pico Plus 2 (what an awkward name) boards, and they were available. I thought they were a dro...
- 10 Aug 2024
Raspberry Pi RP2350 Dual Arm Cortex-m33 and Dual RISC-V Hazard3 Chipset

e14phil

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 builds on the huge success of the original Raspberry Pi Pico product and its derivatives, which were launched in 2021 and 2022. It is powered by the brand-new RP2350 microcontroller platform, designed by Raspberry Pi R...
- 8 Aug 2024
Introducing the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 - with RP2350 Dual Arm Cortex-m33 and Dual RISC-V Hazard3

e14phil

Raspberry Pi Pico 2 builds on the huge success of the original Raspberry Pi Pico product and its derivatives, which were launched in 2021 and 2022.It is powered by the brand-new RP2350 microcontroller platform, designed by Raspberry Pi&nbs...
- 8 Aug 2024
NeoPixel C SDK project for XIAO RP2040

Jan Cumps

The Seeed XIAO RP2040 has a NeoPixel. This project uses the Pico C SDK, and the PIO, to animate it. This is not my project. I adapted hutscape's NeoPixel project for the Pico. These are the changes: the Pico e...
- 20 May 2024
Develop for XIAO RP2040 with the Pi Pico Eurocard Development Board

Jan Cumps

The Pi Pico Eurocard is a development board for the Raspberry Pico, designed by shabaz. In this post, I set it up to develop with a Seeed XIAO RP2040 . Functionality: Program and debug it with the (onboard) PicoProbe Reset co...
- 19 May 2024
Motherboard from a rca windows 10 tablet

Explode420

I ended up messing up my RCA Windows tablet and It wouldn't boot back up and I salvage the little motherboard from it. I'm not sure if there is a way to recover or put Kali Linux on it. It has four gigs of RAM 64 gigs of internal memory two ...
- 22 Mar 2024
Pi Day 2024! element14 Raspberry Pi projects to celebrate the day with...

Catwell

My Rasberry Pi cartoon (I haven't made a Pi project in 6 years? Wow!) Happy Pi Day! I thought it would be fitting to talk about my Raspberry Pi projects from the very first one all the way up to the most current. And w...
- 14 Mar 2024
Happy Pi Day 2024

e14phil

Happy Pi Day! 3.141592653589793238462643383279502884197 What is Pi Day? "Pi Day is observed on March 14 (the 3rd month) since 3, 1, and 4 are the first three significant figures of π, and it was first celebrated in the United States."- h...
- 14 Mar 2024
Win a Raspberry Pi 5 in Celebration of Pi Day!

plowe

Happy Pi Day! To celebrate, we're giving you the chance to win a Raspberry Pi 5! 'How?' I hear you ask...Well, quite simply, we want you to tell us what you would use the Raspberry Pi 5 for in your next project! Considering the new Pi com...
- 14 Mar 2024
Using Github Codespace as a c/c++ development environment for Raspberry Pico (w)

balajivan1995

If you are stuck with a crappy laptop or cursed with windows OS with misconfigured c/c++ setup, use this repo as a template and create a workspace. All the files will be copied into your new workspace. From there follow the setup instruction to insta...
- 18 Jan 2024
Pico C/C++ Development with Visual Studio Code (VS Code): A Development Container Approach!

shabaz

Table of Contents Introduction Software Installation Configure Visual Studio Code Open a Dev Containers Project Building a Dev Containers Project Examining Project Code Revisiting the Project Running the Pi Pico project Opening Projects in a C...
- 13 Jan 2024
Sounds & Visions - The Multimedia Wishlist for Arduino/Raspberry Pi

dychen

Let's get creative! In this wishlist, we're looking at multimedia accessories for the Arduino, Raspberry Pi, and other single board computers and controllers. We're interested in anything that has to do with graphics, music, v...
- 9 Jan 2024
Working with Pi Pico C/C++ Projects Easily: A Docker Approach!

shabaz

Table of Contents Introduction What Is Docker? How Does It Work? What’s Required? Commands Overview Installing Docker Installing and Running the Pi Pico Ready Container Start-Up and Access the Container Download Pi Pico Project Source Code to...
- 8 Jan 2024
C++ gpio library for Raspberry Pi - Pt 3: Blinky!

Jan Cumps

An exercise to build a C++ library for the GPIO pins. The programmer can decide what underlying mechanism is used to talk to the pins. In this 3rd post, finally, a Blinky! #include "memmapdevice.h"typedef dgpio::pin<dgpio::memmapdevice> pin...
- 7 Jan 2024
Triggered Sound FX: On-the-Fly Sound Mixing with Pi Pico

shabaz

Table of Contents Introduction How Does it Work? Using the Ready-Built Code Source Code Changing the Sounds Summary Introduction This short project can be used to output WAV format sound effects for animatronic displays (such as at model train ex...
- 5 Jan 2024