The Pi Pico is great, but your project might be easier with an alternative.

The Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller has inspired a wave of creative projects, from environmental monitors to laser distance sensors. With its low cost, flexible programming options, and rich ...

Remember those brick cellphones in the 1990s? They were comically large by today’s standards. These phones used the 1G network to communicate and, as such, have been unusable for decades now. However ...

The ongoing AI-fueled shortages of memory and storage chips has hit RAM kits and SSDs for PC builders the fastest and hardest, meaning it’s likely that, for other products that use these chips, we’ll ...

Pico MCU from Raspberry Pi There are currently three main approaches for programming the RPi Pico - using the Arduino IDE and adding the RPiPico through the board manager, using methods 1.1 and/or 1.2 ...

A recent attack on a ferry, in which an attacker reportedly plugged a tiny computer called a Raspberry Pi into the network in an attempt to break into the vessel’s operations, offers an important ...

What if your calculator could do more than crunch numbers? Imagine a pocket-sized device that not only solves equations but also doubles as a retro gaming console, a basic computer, and a platform for ...

Raspberry Pi OS Trixie is here with several key upgrades. The new Control Center makes settings easier to select and the Year 2038 bug has been addressed. Raspberry Pi OS Trixie is now available for ...

Getting the hang of through-hole soldering is tricky for those of us tinkering at home with our irons, spools, flux, and, sometimes, braids. It’s almost reassuring, then, to learn that through-hole ...

The PicoCalc is a new handheld with a retro design. At first glance it looks more like a graphing calculator than a modern handheld device. But it sports a QWERTY keyboard, a 4 inch display, and a ...

In my last article I discussed running VMware's ESXi 8 hypervisors and how I planned to install it on a Raspberry Pi 5-based system, specifically the Pi 500, which is basically a Pi 5 housed inside of ...

For anyone getting into the world of programming, the Raspberry Pi provides a great environment, and it's dirt cheap. Unlike a regular PC, the Pi has been designed from the outset around programming.