BME688 DigitalNose App released

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As of today, PiCockpit users will find a new App in their dashboard: BME688 DigitalNose This brings PiCockpit to the new version 2.2.0 – your picockpit-client should at least have version 2.2.0, or higher to be able to use this app. This app will allow you to use your BME688 sensor in smell detection mode…

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The big Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W Troubleshooting guide

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Raspberry Pi Zero 2 showing blank or rainbow screen and no LED  If you’ve ensured that your Raspberry Pi has power but are not seeing anything on the screen and/or you don’t see the green LED, it means that there’s something wrong with your SD card. It could be that it isn’t inserted, it could…

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Raspberry Pi market situation and availability in 2022 for industry

In this post, we discuss the Raspberry Pi market, the limited stock, and the availability of Raspberry Pis for industry. A customer asked me about the availability of Raspberry Pis for his industrial design-ins (in this case, the company makes fire alarm systems). Since this is a recurring question, I promised him to write a…

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CircuitPython, Adafruit Feather RP2040, and I2C

As you probably guessed by the title, this article discusses CircuitPython, the Adafruit Feather RP2040, and the I2C communication protocol. The RP2040 has two I2C controllers – good for example, when you want to run two I2C devices with the same I2C address. In my test setup, I have an Adafruit Feather RP2040 microcontroller board,…

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Free upgrade: Raspberry Pi 4 now with 1.8GHz instead of 1.5GHz

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Raspberry Pi has also increased the clock speed for many Raspberry Pi 4 to 1.8GHz with the introduction of Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye! That’s 20% more performance for the same price 🙂 The upgrade brings the Pi 4 up to the clock speed of the Pi 400, which was previously the fastest Raspberry Pi model.…

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PiCockpit on Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye

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Update 7.1.2022 (final fix) I have now released two separate packages on our normal repository for both bullseye and buster. Our install script should automatically choose which repository you can use. In order to install picockpit-client on both Raspberry Pi OS Bullseye and Raspberry Pi OS Buster please simply run the following command on your…

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Everything about Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W in a nutshell Almost 4 million Pi Zeros have been sold up to date – it’s time for a refresh of the series! The new Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W is a significant upgrade to the previous Pi Zero generation. The most important change is the powerful CPU upgrade. The…

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Sneak Peek into PiCockpit v2.1

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Behind the scenes, we have been working on PiCockpit v2.1 for a while now. There is a cool new feature coming for PiStats, but this will be revealed when PiCockpit v2.1 is ready 🙂 For now a sneak preview into one of the two new apps (“BME688 Air Quality Meter” and “CO2 Sensor”) for the…

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C extension for MicroPython on Raspberry Pi Pico

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This is a guide on how to write and run a basic C extension for MicroPython on the Raspberry Pi Pico. I will cover reasons for extending MicroPython, how to write the extension module, how to compile it and how to install it on the Pico. If you want to read more about this topic,…

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Raspberry Pi Pico Video Output

TL;DR The Raspberry Pi Pico is an incredible little microcontroller. While it does not have a video output interface built-in, like it’s bigger Raspberry Pi Zero / 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 400 siblings (HDMI / double HDMI in their case), it is possible to add a video output to the Pico!…

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