James Adams from Raspberry Pi Trading has written a fascinating article about the new power management chip on the 3B+, which is the MXL7704 from MaxLinear. There’s lots of technical detail here, but it’s quite accessible. You can read more…
Issue 68 of the Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi is out. Inside is a feature on the new Raspberry Pi 3B+ and a massive 8-page spread on Pi Wars, the Raspberry Pi-powered robotics competition that myself and Tim Richardson run which…
Raspberry Pi have announced on Twitter that they are to hold a live Q&A with Raspberry Pi creator (and Raspberry Pi Trading CEO) Eben Upton. The Q&A will take place on YouTube on Thursday, 29th March at 6pm (British Summer…
Raspberry Pi have just announced this year’s get-together for digital enthusiasts – Raspberry Fields. This (non-camping, and not in-a-field!) event will be held over the weekend of 30th June-1st July at Cambridge Junction, where last year’s Birthday Party was held. There…
Good news this morning! Raspberry Pi has announced the launch of the new Raspberry Pi 3B+. An incremental upgrade of the Raspberry Pi 3, the 3B+ features: an improved processor running at an increased speed of 1.4GHz with an added…
5.30am on 1st March… closest I could get to the non-existent leap-day this year 🙂 It’s been 6 years since the Raspberry Pi first went on sale. Since 2012, many millions of the family of boards have been sold. We’ve…
The MagPi issue 67 is out and is a retro computing special covering: Hardware emulation and classic coding The best emulators for Raspberry Pi Using a Retro Computer The best retro computer community builds There’s also plenty of features on…
Raspberry Pi have just announced issue 4 of HackSpace, the new magazine for makers. This issue focuses on wearables and features the usual mix of interviews, news and tutorials. Also of note is that they’ve just started to give a free…
Raspberry Pi have just announced the publication of issue 65 of The MagPi and issue 2 of HackSpace Magazine. The MagPi focuses on providing a Pi newcomers guide and, amongst other highlights, they review the new pi-top version 2 (although I…
Gordon Hollingworth, over at Raspberry Pi, has just blogged an exciting new development that means you can now use a Raspberry Pi Zero’s GPIO pins from your PC or Mac. You’ll need to install Raspbian x86 Stretch on the non-Zero machine…
