Canadian company Allo has created a HAT-compliant Hi-Fi audio stack for Raspberry Pi. It features: 2x50W stereo amplifier, DAC+headphone amplifier, re-clocker and the firm's own Sparky single-board computer.
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 gets 8Mpixel camera module
Two camera add-ons for the Raspberry Pi 3 now offer 8megapixel resolution. An integrated image sensor also enables the computer board to capture 3280 x 2464 pixel static images. The Raspberry Pi Camera v2 and Raspberry Pi NoIR Camera v2 modules which measure 25mm x 35mm x9mm are available from element14. The v2 cameras have the same video capability as ...
Raspberry Pi goes 64-bit quad core
Raspberry Pi, element14 and RS Components have announced Raspberry Pi 3, based around a quad core 64-bit processor. “Four years ago today, we launched the first Raspberry Pi with our friends at Premier Farnell. Today we’re launching Raspberry Pi 3: it’s still $35 and it’s still the size of your credit card, but now it comes with on-board wireless LAN and ...
EW: Raspberry Pi IoT starter kit embraces EnOcean and IBM
Farnell element14 has launched two IoT starter kits, at Embedded World 2016, featuring energy harvesting wireless sensors from EnOcean, one of them including the Raspberry Pi micro-computer board.
Raspberry Pi shrinks to $5 Pi Zero
Raspberry Pi just got smaller and ridiculously cheap. Raspberry Pi Zero measures just 65mm x 30mm with a height profile of 5mm, it is the smallest form factor Pi available. And it costs just $5. It is a slimmed down Raspberry Pi Zero so there is only one Micro USB data port and a Mini HDMI port which supports full HD 1080P output. ...
Raspberry Pi and Brillo will be a match made in heaven
Raspberry Pi may have been slow to announce support for Google’s IoT open source development platform, but it is only a matter of time before the tiny computer embraces Brillo. Google’s bid to bring its Android OS into the orbit of the internet of things come with a developer kit for building testing and debugging. If Microsoft recognises the importance of ...
‘Sci Fi Your Pi’ Challenge – The inside view
An insider’s summary of the entries received and the design challenges their ingenious creators faced when building a convergence of science fiction and technology.
Intel takes on Raspberry Pi in the classroom
Intel has made its big bid to grab a share of the educational computer board market and it has Raspberry Pi firmly in its sights. The processor giant is not creating a small format computer board for the maker and education markets from scratch. It has teamed up with the organisation behind the Arduino board. Arduino will give Intel a ...
Raspberry Pi delivers great multi-room audio
There was a time when multi-room audio - streaming music to multiple rooms in the house with control from anywhere - was only for the well-off, or the extraordinarily ingenious.
Raspberry Pi 2 Model B goes quad-core ARM Cortex-A7
A new, improved Raspberry Pi has been announced, the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. It features a quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU running at 900MHz (for a 6x performance boost on the first generation Raspberry Pi Model B+) and 1GB of LPDDR2 SDRAM (for a 2x memory increase). We’ve covered this story around the site, exhaustively. Check out the original announcement, ...