Items tagged with Raspberry Pi
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Sep 25, 2025
How fitting that Raspberry Pi Foundation chose a throwback Thursday to unveil its Raspberry Pi 500+, an all-in-one PC that gives off some serious Commodore 64 vibes. Or as the Foundation puts it, the Raspberry Pi 500+ is a "love letter to...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Sep 08, 2025
Raspberry Pi Foundation figured it was high time it offered its own-brand solid state drive (SSD) in a 1TB capacity, and so that's exactly what it has done. It joins existing 512GB and 256GB capacity options, all of which are offered in...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Aug 18, 2025
Raspberry Pi Foundation is rolling out a smaller and more deliciously affordable version of its Touch Display 2. The new model is a 5-inch variant with similar specifications to the refreshed 7-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 that it...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Jan 09, 2025
The Raspberry Pi series of economical single-board computers have many fans and not a lot of major faults, but people really enjoy using these machines for tasks far beyond their original design intentions, and that includes running AI...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, Nov 27, 2024
It's been a little over four years since Raspberry Pi Foundation released a Compute Module. That changes today with the launch of Raspberry Pi's Compute Module 5, which is essentially a compact version of the Raspberry Pi 5 that trades an...
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Lane Babuder - Mon, Mar 13, 2023
Half-Life 2 might be the new "Can it run DOOM?" It may be hard to believe, but Valve's magnum opus is now 19 years old which some would argue even makes it worthy of the "Retro" moniker. To show how far computing has come, one person...
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Lane Babuder - Mon, Jan 23, 2023
Thanks to recent supply shortages, people have had a large struggle getting their hands on Raspberry Pi 4's. Even the Pi 3 models have gone up in price compared to years before. Not only that, Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton stated that it's...
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Paul Lilly - Tue, Dec 13, 2022
It's been mostly sour grapes for modders and tinkerers who have been on the hunt for a Raspberry Pi single-board computer (SBC) module, which has suffered "substantial order backlogs" while the Raspberry Pi Foundation navigates through...
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Lane Babuder - Thu, Sep 08, 2022
Raspberry Pi OS, originally named Raspbian, had a few big updates added to it on September 7, 2022. A good portion of those include UI and UX improvements such as new keyboard shortcuts, support for the NetworkManager app, upgrades to...
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Lane Babuder - Wed, Jul 13, 2022
We talk a lot about micro-computer and micro-controller mods here, and that's mainly because we think they're awesome. Every week, if not every day, we see more amazing and inspirational mods on how to use these inexpensive little devices...
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Jul 11, 2022
Like many people, we're big fans of the various Raspberry Pi single-board computers (SBCs) and the many projects they have enabled. Just today, for example, we wrote about a nifty 'Dice Bomb' dice roller that could be particularly handy...
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Lane Babuder - Wed, Jun 29, 2022
One of the worst things for any musician who plays instruments like electric guitars is to blow an amp. Well, musicians, fret no more, unless you like your frets, thanks to the ingenuity of one YouTuber you can possibly repair your amp...
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Lane Babuder - Mon, Jun 27, 2022
Do you ever think that your game consoles are too big, bulky, and made of too much metal? Well, thanks to the Raspberry Pi subreddit we can see what it's like to have a small and wooden game console.
This little project takes a...
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Paul Lilly - Wed, May 25, 2022
There are plenty of delicious (not edible, trust us on that one) solutions in the single board computer (SBC) space, and while Raspberry Pi is the one most people probably think of right way, it's not the only contender. ASUS tinkers with...
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Zak Killian - Fri, Apr 22, 2022
Single-board computers (SBCs) are fun. If you're not familiar with the concept, single-board computers are exactly what it says on the tin: a whole system on a single board, usually comprising an SoC, some DRAM, maybe an external Ethernet...
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Lane Babuder - Tue, Mar 29, 2022
The history of pinball has a long and storied past. The first commercially successful pinball machine was introduced in 1931 by Gottlieb and it didn't even have the now-ubiquitous flippers. In fact, it didn't have bumpers, rebounds...
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Brittany Goetting - Wed, Jan 26, 2022
Sometimes a dose of sarcasm is just what the doctor ordered. Twitter user Ben S recently developed a “sarcasm converter” for keyboards with two rather cheap Raspberry Pi Pico boards. One can implement a sarcasm mode with his invention with...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Jan 11, 2022
If you're not someone who does a lot of experimenting with single-board computers, when you hear "Raspberry Pi" you probably think of a little circuit board with some chips, ringed in I/O ports. There's another form of Raspberry Pi...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Dec 23, 2021
You will find plenty of gift ideas in our Holiday Wish List roundup, in which each all of us at HotHardware picked out up a few tech items that we personally find appealing. However, one thing that's admittedly cooler than all of our picks...
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Brandon Hill - Thu, Aug 19, 2021
It seems as though there is no shortage of alternatives to Raspberry Pi when it comes to single-board computers. A new entry makes its presence known every few months, but Raspberry Pi still has the most mindshare with the enthusiast/DIY...
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Brandon Hill - Tue, Jun 15, 2021
Many competitors to the Raspberry Pi family of single-board PCs have come and gone with varying levels of success. Pine64’s latest entry in this arena is now available for sale, and it’s called the Quartz64.
The Quartz64 uses a Rockchip...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Feb 04, 2021
One of the software options for running a Raspberry Pi module is Raspberry Pi OS (formerly Raspbian), the officially supported Debian-based operating system put out by The Raspberry Pi Foundation. It has been around since 2015 without too...
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