Farnell is now offering the tiny, fast, and versatile Raspberry Pi Pico 2 which retains the footprint of the original Pico, while benefiting from the performance uplift delivered by the RP2350 microcontroller, designed by Raspberry Pi. When compared to its predecessor, the RP2040 microcontroller launched in 2021, RP2350 offers a 150MHz system clock (versus 133MHz); dual Arm Cortex-M33 cores (versus ...
Raspberry Pi Development
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”.
Raspberry Pi turns to Halio for 13Top/s AI acceleration
Raspberry Pi 5 now has the option of an AI co-processor for neural networks, artificial intelligence and machine learning. The AI kit comprises the same M.2 HAT+ recently announced for holding NVMe memory drives, instead loaded with 13Top/s Hailo-8L AI processor. Connection, according to Raspberry Pi, is over its single-lane “PCIe 3.0 connection running at 8Gbit/s” – which is the ...
Official M.2 HAT for Raspberry Pi
Raspberry Pi has released the official M.2 HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5, allowing the connection of NVMe memory drives and AI accelerators. It accepts M.2 2230 or 2242 form factors, to which it can supply up to 3A and transfer data at up to 500Mbyte/s via the Pi’s single PCIe 2.0 channel. Being compliant to the HAT+ specification means that ...
Mouser signs Edge Impulse; accelerates intelligence at the edge
Mouser reflected one of the major themes at Embedded World 2024, intelligence at the edge, and announced it has signed Edge Impulse, the software framework provider for embedded machine learning (ML) applications. Machine learning is implemented at the edge of the network, explained Mouser’s Mark Patrick in order to make decisions very quickly at the [network] edge. [Edge Impulse’s] products ...
PA Consulting names date for 2024 Raspberry Pi competition for schools
PA Consulting has announced the date for its nationwide Raspberry Pi competition Awards Day, for students aged 8-18: it will be held on Wednesday 1 May 2024. This year’s theme is to ‘improve health and well-being, at home, office, school or on the move’, and the venue will be at the Google offices in Pancras Square, London. With the aim ...
Pi 5 4Gbyte and 8Gbyte boards shipping from Farnell
The Raspberry Pi 5 4Gbyte and 8Gbyte boards can now be ordered for same day shipping from Farnell, Raspberry Pi’s exclusive global licensee. The new board features a 2.4GHz quad-core, 64-bit Arm Cortex-A76 CPU, with 512KB L2 caches and a 2MB shared L3 cache, enabling a greatly expanded range of applications, and on-board dual-band Wi-Fi and Bluetooth 5 connectivity. The ...
Raspberry Pi friendly LoRaWAN Module for long-range wireless comms
Check out a Raspberry Pi friendly LoRaWAN Module, supporting long-distance IoT scenarios: the LR1302. It's released by Elecrow.
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 forward guidance available, to some
For those of you wanting to design with Raspberry Pi’s much-awaited Compute Module 5 (CM5), the organisation has created a forward guidance document to help engineers get started. Electronics Weekly cannot publish any of it here, but you can download the CM5 forward guidance document from this web page – a sign-in is needed for this – creating a Raspberry ...
Gadget Book: Save the World with Code (Raspberry Pi, micro:bit, and Circuit Playground Express)
Time for our first addition to the Gadget Master library in 2024. Check out Save the World with Code: 20 Fun Projects for All Ages Using Raspberry Pi, micro:bit, and Circuit Playground Express.
Raspberry Pi Pico powers Moon phase model
I really like this one, the waxing and waning. It's described as a Moon phase device, which models the aspects of our satellite orb.