Enlarge / The Pi OS is getting a new setup wizard to help it shed its old username. (credit: Raspberry Pi Foundation) Since its launch, the Raspberry Pi OS (and most operating systems based on it) has shipped with a default “pi” user account, making it simpler to boot up a Pi and start working […]
Enlarge / The Raspberry Shake, a simple seismograph based on Raspberry Pi hardware. (credit: Mike Hotchkiss, Raspberry Shake) On the afternoon of January 12, 2010, a magnitude-7.0 earthquake struck about 16 miles west of Haiti’s capital of Port-au-Prince. Among the most significant seismic disasters recorded, more than 100,000 people lost their lives. The damage—costing billions of […]
Enlarge / Raspberry Pi cases like the Argon One won’t look out of place underneath your TV or next to your gaming PC. (credit: Andrew Cunningham) Years ago, in the heyday of the NES Classic Edition, we put together a guide to building a retro emulation box with a Raspberry Pi board, the RetroPie operating […]
Enlarge / The Raspberry Pi 4. (credit: Raspberry Pi Foundation) Setting up a Raspberry Pi board has always required a second computer, which is used to flash your operating system of choice to an SD card so your Pi can boot. But the Professional indemnity Foundation is working on a new version of its bootloader […]
Enlarge (credit: Raspberry Pi Foundation) The Raspberry Pi hardware has included a 64-bit processor since the Pi 3 launched in early 2016 , but the Raspberry Professional indemnity OS (formerly known as Raspbian) has remained primarily 32-bit. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has been testing a 64-bit version of the OS since 2020, though, and today […]
Enlarge / The Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. (credit: Raspberry Pi Foundation ) The diminutive Raspberry Pi Absolutely no is getting its first upgrade in nearly five years. Today, Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton announced the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W , a new $15 product that puts the processor from the Raspberry Pi 3 […]
Enlarge / The Raspberry Pi 4. (credit: Raspberry Pi Foundation) Pandemic-driven supply chain problems have prompted the first-ever price increase for a Raspberry Pi product, according to Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton. Acknowledging that the 2GB configuration of the Raspberry Pi 4 and the Raspberry Pi Zero had been particularly hard-hit by shortages, Upton announced […]
The controversial Pi update just adds Microsoft’s VS Code repo in a separate file in sources.list.d. No actual packages were installed. [credit: Jim Salter ] We were recently alerted to something of a tempest in a teapot: When the Raspberry Pi Foundation made it easier to install Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code development environment, some Linux […]
Entirely unboxed, we visit that exactly the Pi 400 itself, a 247 page full colour newcomer’s manual, power supply, USB mouse, plus a single micro-HDMI into HDMI cable. Late Friday afternoon, I got an intriguing SMS telling –my first review sample of this newest Raspberry Pi 400’d came. I heard of this new Pi version […]