The third issue of The MagPi, the Raspberry Pi community’s free-to-download magazine has been released. This issue includes articles on Debian essentials, GPIO interfacing for beginners, making ribbon cable and more. All issues of The MagPi are available for download from the MagPi magsite. Ash, Jaseman, Meltwater, Chris and The MagPi team are looking for […]
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Punnet cardboard cut-out case for the Raspberry Pi
It doesn’t get much simpler than this cardboard case for the Raspberry-Pi. It’s a printable cut-out design that shows you where to cut, bend, and glue to make a simple enclosure. While this isn’t the most professional looking enclosure for a project, it does provide some protection. We’d like to design DIY cutout cases for […]
From the forum: Raspberry Pi review
Here is a review of the Raspberry Pi from the forum: This is my “home” forum for embedded stuff, as the community here is good. Though I note Raspberry Pi (here forward R-Pi) has its own forum (I’m teholabs there). I wonder how many persons here got one? I ordered on day 1 (March) and […]
Raspberry Pi first batch will be manufactured by February 20th
Raspberry Pi’s first batch will be manufactured by the 20th of February and should be on sale by the end of the month. These credit card sized boards support a full Linux operating system. A nice addition is that Broadcom released some documentation related to the BCM2835 system on chip used on the Pi. Previously […]
Raspberry Pi Linux boards are in production
Raspberry Pi, the credit card-sized Linux development boards, are now in production. The first boards will start rolling off the manufacturing lines at the end of January. Raspberry Pis started being made a couple of days ago, but I was forbidden to tell you about it until signed contracts and receipts for payment had arrived […]
Raspberry Pi PCBs
Drone writes: The Raspberry Pi production PCB’s have arrived. Look at the comparison to an actual credit-card; and those tiny yet crowded BGA footprints. It is amazing how the BGA parts are actually solderable – and with high yield! Read more about the Raspberry Pi dev board and the availability of these PCBs at the […]
Raspberry Pi alpha board
Raspberry Pi An ARM Linux: This won’t ship for another three months, but they already have the alpha version running Debian It’s a credit-card size board running Linux with GPIO, I2C, I2S, serial, and SPI. They are targeting $35, or $25 with no ethernet, only one USB, and less memory. It looks like they would […]