The Raspberry Pi 3 is already a pretty tiny computer, taking up about as much space as a deck of cards. But if you don’t need the full-sized Ethernet and USB ports, you can make it smaller. And that’s exactly what hacker NODE has done. His Raspberry Pi 3 Slim design packs a modified Raspberry […]
pi-topPULSE Brings Alexa Support And A Light Show To Raspberry Pi
HATs are a quick and easy way to add all kinds of different functionality to a Raspberry Pi. There may never be one that can match the 503HTA Hybrid Tube Amp in terms of sheer cool factor, but pi-top’s latest offering is slick and packs The pi-topPULSE features a speaker, microphone, and a 7×7 RGB […]
Noodle Pi is a DIY pocket computer kit with Raspberry Pi brains (crowdfunding)
Raspberry Pi makes a line of computers so tiny you can fit them in your pocket. But you probably need to take them out of your pocket, plug them into a power source, and hook up a mouse, keyboard, and display to use them. The developer behind the Noodle Pi has another idea. He’s launched […]
More details on the demise of WDLabs (hard drives for Raspberry Pi… among other things)
Western Digital is shutting down its WDLabs division, which is responsible for selling hard drive kits intended for use with the Raspberry Pi line of products, as well as other single-board computers. We first reported on the news last month, but WD has yet to release a public statement on the matter. Now our anonymous […]
$52 Pi Desktop kit turns a Raspberry Pi into a (more) complete PC
The Raspberry Pi line of single-board computers are basically tiny, cheap, low power PCs. But they tend to lack of some of the features you get with a normal desktop computer, like a case… or storage. You can use a microSD card and/or USB drives for storage and there’s no shortage of third-party cases for Raspberry […]
Hardware kit turns Raspberry Pi into a DIY Google Home (kind of)
Just a few days after Google released a software development kit for Google Assistant, allowing developers to bring Google’s voice assistant service to third-party hardware, there’s a new hardware kit that lets you turn a Raspberry Pi into an Assistant-enabled device. The AIY Projects voice kit includes a speaker, microphone, cables, arcade-style button, and a cardboard case […]
Zero Terminal: A DIY handheld Linux PC made from a Raspberry Pi and a cheap iPhone keyboard accessory
Looking for a tiny, Linux computer that’s small enough to fit in a pocket, but which has a keyboard, display, and everything else you need for computing on the go? I guess you could spend $69 on a Pocket CHIP. but you could also just build your own. That’s what a hacker that goes by […]
Raspberry Pi Zero W is a $10 computer with WiFi and Bluetooth
Raspberry Pi’s smallest, cheapest computer is now available with optional WiFi and Bluetooth. The makers of the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero have released a new $10 variant called the Raspberry Pi Zero W. It’s just about the same size as the original, but it adds a MCB43143 wireless chip. This little computer is launching 5 years […]
Most popular Liliputing articles of 2016
As 2016 draws to a close, so do some of the more ambitious mobile tech projects of recent years. Cyanogen OS is dead. Pebble is dying a slow death and wearables aren’t necessarily the hot commodity some had hoped. This was also the year that I launched the LPX podcast, featuring interviews with people like: Jim […]
Raspberry Pi’s PIXEL software now available for x86 PCs
The Raspberry Pi Foundation launched a new light-weight desktop environment called PIXEL a few months ago. It comes pre-loaded with a variety of popular tools that make it easy to turn the group’s $35 computer into a fully-functional PC. While PIXEL was originally designed to work with the Raspbian operating system that’s optimized for Raspberry Pi […]
NEC taps tiny Raspberry Pi Compute Model for big-screen smart displays
Japanese electronics maker NEC plans to launch a series of displays with BIG screens and tiny computers for their brains. The upcoming line of commercial displays will have screen sizes ranging from 40 to 98 inches, and they’ll use a Pi Compute Module to power digital signage and other applications. There’s an internal bay in each display […]
PIXEL is the new desktop environment for Raspberry Pi’s Raspbian OS
Raspbian is a Linux-based operating system optimized to run on Raspberry Pi’s tiny, inexpensive, low-power computers. It’s not the only OS that you can run on a Raspberry Pi, but it’s one of the more popular options… especially for beginners. And now Raspbian is getting a new look, thanks to a new desktop environment called […]
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