Less than a year after the Raspberry Pi foundation launched a $35 barebones mini-computer, a second model has launched. The Raspberry Pi Model A is basically a stripped down version of the Model B that’s been available since early 2012, but the new version sells for about $25 (plus VAT). It’s already available for purchase in Europe, and should be available…
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The Raspberry Pi is a $35 computer board that’s about the size of a pack of cards. It’s not the fastest PC around, and it doesn’t even come with a case — but you can build some pretty nifty projects from the little computer — including a portable, battery-powered PC with a tiny keyboard and display. SK Pang Electronics took…
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The Raspberry Pi is a $35 computer board with a built-in processor, memory, and input and output. But if you want to use it as a full-fledged computer you need to connect some storage, a keyboard, display, and other peripherals. Most people probably do that by plugging in a monitor and USB keyboard and mouse. But hacker Nathan Morgan decided…
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The Raspberry Pi is a tiny, inexpensive computer which has been making waves since it launched earlier this year. The price is part of the appeal: you can pick up a model B for $35, or a stripped-down model A for $25. But another thing that makes the Raspberry Pi exciting is its open nature. It can handle a range…
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Baby monitors give parents piece of mind by letting them keep an ear (or eye) on a kid’s room while wondering the house. But you don’t need to spend a lot of money on a high-end model to get decent performance. Matt Karr decided to build one himself using little more than a $35 Raspberry Pi and a Blue Yeti…
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has been producing $35 computers for months. But the plan all along was to go even lower… and now the team has announced that the first Raspberry Pi Model A samples are rolling off the production line. Early next year the Model A should go on sale for about $25. Like the Model B, which sells…
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The Raspberry Pi may not be the most powerful computer around, but it’s fast enough to handle classic arcade-style video games. It’s also smaller than a pack of cards. So it was just a matter of time until someone made an arcade cabinet out of a Raspberry Pi… a tiny, tiny arcade cabinet. SpritMods took a Raspberry Pi, attached a…
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There’s nothing stopping you from plugging a USB camera into a Raspberry Pi mini-computer. But if you want a camera that’s tailor made for the $35 computer, the wait is almost over. The Raspberry Pi Foundation announced earlier this year that work was underway on a camera board that connects to the unused CSI pins on the Raspberry Pi. Now their hardware…
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Is the $1500 price tag for Google’s Project Glass a little high for you? Instructables contributor meztek has a guide for building a wearable computer for just under $400. The secrete sauce comes in two parts: a $35 (plus shipping) Raspberry Pi computer and a pair of the cheapest glasses you can find with a built-in monitor. In this case,…
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There are a lot of interesting things you can do with little computers that cost just $35. While you probably wouldn’t think of turning a $350 desktop or laptop computer into a single-purpose machine, there’s not much to lose by converting a computer that costs one tenth the price into a device that does one thing and does it well….
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The Raspberry Pi is a mini PC with a $35 price tag, a 700 MHz ARM11 processor, up to 512MB of RAM, and Ethernet, USB, and HDMI ports. It’s about the size of a pack of cards, and we’ve seen people cram the entire PC into a keyboard, a camera grip, and other tight spaces. You can even transform the…
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation has released the source code for the graphics core of the mini-computer’s Broadcom BCM2835. That makes the Raspberry Pi the first ARM-based system-on-a-chip computer with vendor-provided open source drivers. What does that mean? If you’re a developer it means that you can now get to work porting operating systems or optimizing software to run on the Raspberry Pi…
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The Raspberry Pi is a mini-computer with a low power ARM-based processor, a small amount of RAM, and an SD card slot that lets you provide your own storage. It’s not a very powerful computer, but it can run a range of open source operating systems, and it’s dirt cheap, with a top price of about $35. Now the makers…
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The Raspberry Pi mini computer has a 700 MHz Broadcom BCM2835 ARM11 processor. But users have been adjusting the voltage and overclocking the chip to run at higher speeds for months. Up until now, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has supported doing that — but warned that it could potentially damage the hardware, and that it would therefore void the warranty….
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The Raspberry Pi isn’t exactly a speed demon. The $35 computer has a 700 MHz ARM11 processor which is enough for basic computing tasks, and HD video playback. But in order to keep the price low and the mini PC accessible, the Raspberry Pi foundation used a chipset that’s a few years old and not as capable as most newer…
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