Raspberry Pi Dispatch: Raspberry Pi 5!

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Introduction Raspberry Pi 5! It’s almost here! It’s the first new model from Raspberry Pi Ltd. in over four years! We in the Raspberry Pi community have grown accustomed to waiting these past few years, but four years for a new product is quite the wait! Luckily, Raspberry Pi has promised to deliver and deliver…

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Paragon Project: A Raspberry Pi Garden

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Do you want to be able to water your garden remotely? Then this is the project for you! It’s an entire irrigation platform that you can control with your phone, tablet, or laptop! Using a Raspberry Pi, your garden comes wholly under your control. This one comes from Dan-in-CA on GitHub. You can find the…

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What You Can Do with a Compute Module 4

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The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4) is a fantastic little board and a half-sibling of the Raspberry Pi 4 family that we talked about last week. And last year, we published an article about the basics of the Compute Module 4 here. But so much has happened in the past year and a half,…

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Paragon Project: DOOM on an Arduino Nano ESP32

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There’s a classic question in the universe of computer games – but can it run Crysis? However, in the world of microcomputer games and microcontrollers, we have a slightly different question – but can it run DOOM? Well we finally have the answer for the Arduino Nano. And the answer is: yes! You can indeed…

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Paragon Project: Open-Source E-Book

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To be honest, I’ve been following this project for a long time. And the I think the idea itself deserved to be featured in our Paragon Projects series. But Joey Castillo just published updates to this project that require me to do it now, especially. This is an open source e-book, which Joey calls “The…

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Everything You Need to Know About the Raspberry Pi 4

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Now that Raspberry Pi 4 stocks have returned to normal, we thought it was time to write an article about the power of this microcomputer. So if you’ve already got one and you want to learn more or if you’re thinking about getting one and want to get more details – this is the article…

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Why is my Raspberry Pi so slow?

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It’s a tale as old as time (or at least as old as 2012). You receive your sleek new Raspberry Pi in its little paper packaging. You pull it out, flash your SD card, and plug that sucker in. Before you know it though, you’re rushing to the internet to answer one very pressing question:…

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What is the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4)?

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If you’re new to the Raspberry Pi series of microcomputers, you might be wondering if the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 (CM4) will suit your use case. What is the Raspberry Pi CM4? The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 is very much like the Raspberry Pi 4. Unlike the Pi 4, the CM4 is really…

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Raspberry Pi Fan Pins (An Easy Cooling Solution)

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If you own a Raspberry Pi 4 or Raspberry Pi Zero 2, you might need active cooling to keep your system from overheating and there’s perhaps no better way to do that then with Raspberry Pi fan pins. You’ll know when your system is overheating when you get throttled. Depending on the model that you…

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SPI – The Serial Peripheral Interface

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SPI means Serial Peripheral Interface. With SPI you can exchange data blazingly fast between two devices. And you only need four wires. SPI Characteristics The serial peripheral interface is a synchronous communication interface for short distances. Synchronous means that the data is sent in form of blocks or frames and the the two devices are…

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