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Premier Farnell Turns Raspberry Pi into a PC
UK tech manufacturer Premier Farnell has unveiled a new case for turning your Raspberry Pi into a desktop PC. Pi Desktop integrates SSD support, power and reboot switches, plus onboard connectivity to turn the Pi into a compact Linux system. The case, though, does not include the Raspberry Pi itself, nor…
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Raspberry Pi Becomes Third Best-Selling Computer Ever
Tiny single-board computer the Raspberry Pi has become the third best-selling home computer ever after recently outselling 1980s favourite the Commodore 64. As of this year, the Raspberry Pi has barely overtaken the Commodore 64’s sales figures, which shifted approximately 12.5 million units during its lifetime. The sales figures are…
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Raspberry Pi Now the Third Best-Selling GP Computer of All Time
Raspberry Pi has recently reached a milestone, becoming the third best-selling general purpose computer in history, displacing the Commodore 64 which sold 12.5 million, the bulk of which is from 1982 to 1993. Not a bad haul considering the original Raspberry Pi only had intentions to sell between 10 and…
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Help Google Make AI for Raspberry Pi
The maker of the Raspberry Pi is teaming up with Google to create artificial intelligence systems for the small single-board computer. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is surveying the community to find out what AI smart tools it wants to see on the Pi, which will be built by Google during…
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ASUS Tinker Board to Compete Against Raspberry Pi 3
Motherboard giant ASUS is taking aim directly against Raspberry PI 3 for dominance in the DIY computing market with their newly announced Tinker Board. Equipped with a Rockchip RK3288 System-on-chip running at 1.8GHz with 2GB of RAM, ASUS claims a superior performance over the Raspberry PI 3 Model B which…
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New Raspberry Pi Compute Module Features Massive Performance Boost
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has unveiled the third generation of its small form-factor single-board Compute Module, which has twice the RAM and ten-times the CPU performance of the original. The Compute Module 3 is effectively stripped-down version of the Raspberry Pi 3, featuring the same four-core Broadcom BCM2837 processor, 1GB…
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Raspberry Pi Launches Desktop Version of Pixel OS
The Raspberry Pi Foundation, the company responsible for the Raspberry Pi single-board computer range, has announced that it is releasing a desktop version of its Pixel operating system, originally designed to run on the Pi. Pixel, which is a modification of the GNU/Linux-based Raspbian OS, is now available for free…
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WD Unveils Raspberry Pi Storage Drives
Western Digital has unveiled a new line of hard disk and flash storage drives specifically designed for use with the Raspberry Pi single board computer. The WD PiDrive Foundation Edition and WD PiDrive Berryboot Edition drives are optimised to be powered directly from the Raspberry Pi, require no external power,…
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Raspberry Pi Sales Exceed 10 Million Units
The Raspberry Pi project was founded as a way of encouraging youngsters to learn programming languages and ensure the future generation has the correct skills. Not only that, the Raspberry Pi is extremely useful for hobbyists who want to create their own software or build a tiny small form-factor system. In…
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You Can Now Play Doom II on a Rapsberry Pi Painsaw
It’s almost impossible to overestimate the significance of Doom and Doom II in video game history as both titles helped to popularise the first-person shooter genre. Doom’s core mechanics still hold up in the modern era and it’s clear where many shooting games draw their inspiration from. Of course, pretty…
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Check Out The Raspberry Pi Powered “GameBoy Zero”
Who remembers when the original Game Boy was released? Released by Nintendo back in 1996, the Game Boy was the first handheld gaming device for a lot of people and in recent years, people have looked to emulate the system. While being able to play with your smartphone like it…
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Western Digital Release New 314GB PiDrive for $31
When it comes to using the Raspberry Pi, one of the key issues is storage. Micro SD cards are limited in size and become more expensive for the larger capacity cards, and while Western Digital have offered a 1TB PiDrive for some time now, its price tag of almost $80…
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Create Your Own LCARS System Using A Raspberry Pi
Star Trek has had a lasting impact on everything from science fiction to people’s everyday lives. Everybody who has watched the series has their own generation, and for myself it was the Next Generation. I remember watching the first episode when it aired and gazing at the screens as they…
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Raspberry Pi 3 Includes Wi-fi and Bluetooth
Computers are weird things, they get smaller each year and yet still their power and what each of them can do increases every time we blink. A prime example of this is the recent surge of mini-computers, with some hardware being as small as your phone while also letting you…
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Xfinity User Creates Bot to Tweet Comcast Whenever His Internet Speed Drops
An industrious Comcast Xfinity customer, disgruntled over poor internet speeds, has created a bot that auto-Tweets Comcast whenever his broadband drops below advertised speeds. Redditer AlekseyP used a Raspberry Pi to monitor his internet speed, checking every hour, which sends a Tweet to the official Comcast Twitter account every time…
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