Raspberry Pi Development

In celebration of Pi Day, element14.com has launched the Raspberry Pi Pi-Fest Design Challenge. This design challenge will put Raspberry Pi Pico at the centre stage as community members will use the device, coupled with any other Raspberry Pi products of their choice, to create music or audio-themed project. Fifty sponsored challengers will receive a Raspberry Pi Pico kit free of charge ...

Maker Mahesh Venkitachalam has designed a high quality microphone he calls Mico using the main component of the Raspberry Pi Pico  – the RP2040 controller chip – which can be bought separately from the Pico platform. The sensing device is a MEMS microphone that outputs a pulse density modulated (PDM) signal. Mahesh designed a PCB that holds the RP2040 with ...

Digi-Key Electronics has partnered with Make – the publishers behind the maker magazines and books – to release an augmented reality (AR) app to accompany its 2021 Boards Guide. Divided into sections for microcontroller (MCU), single-board controller (SBC) and field programmable gate array (FPGA)-based boards, the guide helps students, makers and professional engineers navigate the latest technology for their possible ...

Raspberry Pi OS, the custom operating system for Raspberry Pis, has had a major upgrade. It is now based on Debian Bullseye, Linux which has replaced two year old Debian Buster. “Debian Bullseye has relatively few major changes which are visible to users,” according to Raspberry Pi. “There are some under-the-hood changes to file systems and printing, but most of ...

Raspberry Pi has used system-in-package technology to boost processing power in its tiny Zero with a quad-core processor. Not to be confused with the similar-looking Compute Modules, the Zero is a full computer with an HDMI connector on-board. “Where our larger products have grown steadily more powerful over the years, we’ve never found a way to pack more performance into ...

Industrial control language Codesys will now run on Kontron’s Raspberry Pi compute module-based Pi-Tron CM3+ PCB computer (pictured). “The integrated development environment Codesys for programmable logic controllers according to the IEC 61131-3 standards is hardware-independent software for application development in industrial automation,” according to Kontron. “Thanks to its open interfaces and security features, Codesys has distinguished itself as an industry ...

Described by SECO as the world’s most flexible AI platform, the UDOO KEY is a single-board based on the Raspberry Pi RP2040 and ESP32, and is aimed at Edge AI projects. It enables machine learning applications using TinyML, TensorFlow Lite, MicroPython, C and C++. The board comes in two versions: UDOO KEY and UDOO KEY PRO. Both feature Wi-Fi, Bluetooth ...

The recently released Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect and Raspberry Pi Pico development boards are available from stock at Farnell. They are designed to accelerate development time and time-to-market. They are also competitively priced for deployment in production systems, adds Farnell. The new-to-market Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect and Raspberry Pi Pico provide differentiated development platforms for the Raspberry Pi-designed RP2040 microcontroller, ...

The Raspberry Pi is the most popular SBC with 44% of professional users preferring it to other SBCs, finds a survey of professional engineers by Farnell, Arduino was ranked second (28%) with Beagleboard in third place (6%). These market-leading SBCs simplify new product development and reduce time to market, allowing OEMs to respond to market trends much faster. The survey ...

Just a quick post to flag this Raspberry Pi-based News story, which could have been written for Gadget Master. It's about breaking a domino-setting record...