Category: Raspberry Pi

Cost-effective air quality sensor functions with Raspberry Pi
Metriful has announced a $39 “Sense” indoor air quality sensor module that functions with the Raspberry Pi and other I2C-enabled systems. The Covid-19 pandemic has led to most of the earth’s population being indoor, and for some especially less privileged they are stuck in crowded...
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New PiSugar2 Adds Battery Pack And UPS Features
The team of engineers at the PiSugar project has launched a second-generation version of their compact battery accessory for the Raspberry Pi Zero family of single-board computers, and they call it the PiSugar2. Last year, the original PiSugar was launched, integrating a 900mAh...
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New Raspberry Pi 4 version with 8GB RAM and a 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS Released
After almost one year of having the Raspberry Pi 4 around, the rumors of an 8GB RAM version of the board being in the works has finally been confirmed with a launch. Speaking about the new board, Eben Upton, CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation said “While we launched with 1GB, 2GB, and...
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TinyUPS – Uninterruptible Power Supply based on ATtiny13A
Power interruption has a lot of side effects on projects. Especially projects with heavy processing requirements, it could corrupt the memory of the microprocessor/microcontroller, or lead to significant damage to other parts of the device. To mitigate this, several UPS solutions have...
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Raspberry Pi 4 Beta Firmware Brings True USB Boot for High-Speed Storage – no SD Card needed
One important feature of the Pi 3 flavor of the Raspberry Pi is the ability of the Pi to boot from a network server or a USB Mass storage device, rather than the, pretty much standard way of booting from an SD Card. However, while the Pi 4 featured several upgrades both physically and...
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World’s first fully self-contained Raspberry Pi audio HAT board with MERUS™ class D multilevel amplifier
Infineon Technologies AG developed the world’s first fully self-contained Raspberry Pi audio amplifier HAT (Hardware attached on Top) board. It offers high definition audio at boom box power levels in a small form factor. The Infineon proprietary multilevel technology ensures minimum...
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Sparkfun Launches Auto pHATs and Top pHats for Robotics and Display
Available for sale at $29.95 and $49.95 respectively, the two new add-on boards recently launched by the Colorado-based Sparkfun for your Raspberry Pi, Jetson Nano and Google Coral development platforms can quickly add functionality and support to your single board computers without...
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New Powerful Raspberry Pi High-Quality Camera Features a 12MP Sensor and Optional C and CS mount lenses
Staying through to their pace-setting tradition, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has once again pushed the bar of what is achievable with SBCs, higher, with the launch of what is arguably the most powerful camera ever shipped with an SBC. The first official Raspberry Pi camera with 5MP...
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