Raspberry Pi mega-store The Pi Hut has just re-launched their website with over 3,500 new products added to their range. The range, which is aimed at makers, includes products from popular manufacturers Adafruit, Seeed and DFRobot and other, more niche companies, so you never know what you might find! Really great news for fans of blinky and non-blinky maker-y, type, um… things. Not such good news for your bank balance, one would imagine! Head over to The Pi Hut to take a look.
Great news from Pi Towers today. The MagPi has announced that a reduced, 20-page version of each new issue will be available in the following languages:
The first issue is available here and you can read more about this exciting development here.
Car manufacturer Peugeot Citroen have developed an Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) to lift & transport cars around their factory. The vehicle, which travels almost 8km a day is controlled by a Raspberry Pi and uses a touch-screen display for monitoring and control. It has an inbuilt Robopeak RPLidar scanner for detecting if human beings are in the way so that it stops before anyone dies a horrible, crushing death. You can read a bit more technical detail over at The MagPi.
Although the Raspberry Pi 3 has a 64-bit processor, it is well-known among the higher-level techies that the currently released version of Raspbian is, in fact, a 32-bit version. That means it’s not using some of the higher-level functionality of the 64-bit processor. To most people that won’t make much difference – the Pi 3 performs well. But the point is it could perform even better.
Eben Upton has just posted on the Foundation’s blog that the first 64-bit operating system for the Pi is now available: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. This isn’t necessarily suitable for all users, but it does give those who are looking for tip-top performance an option. It has wifi and Bluetooth built in so the Pi 3’s networking capabilities are enabled.
You can download the image here.
UUGear, who previously gave us a selection of hubs and UPS solutions for the Pi, have just released a Zero-sized power supply board that accepts voltages from 5-26V. It’s called the Zero2Go and has the following features:
It costs 350.00 CZK (12.95 euros / £10.85 / $13.65) from their website.
Over at DesignSpark, Dr Lucy Rogers has written a great tutorial which fuses the Raspberry Pi, 3D printing, an ESP8266 module and some Neopixels into a bus warning system. The system has the following features:
It uses a combination of Arduino code and Lucy’s favourite language NodeRED. You can download all the files you need (including the 3D printing files for the bus itself) and read the tutorial here.
