Category Archives: Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi Foundation just announced the availability of the long awaited camera board. The camera boards are now available for order! You can buy one fromRS Components or from Premier Farnell/Element14. We’ve been very grateful for your patience as we’ve tweaked … Continue reading →

We have a large scanner / copier / printer at the office. Large and rather expensive, it carries out some basic tasks. One of my favorite features of this oversized beast is that it can scan documents and sending them … Continue reading →

As fun as bitbanging might be, hardware implementation of wire-level protocols can be really handy. Hackaday writes about Louis Thiery‘s and Brian Hensley‘s work towards enabling SPI on the Raspberry Pi. They both show how to get SPI working on the … Continue reading →

The Raspberry Pi gains yet another OS. This time, it is FreeBSD that has been ported over to the cheap and versatile little board. Expect it to be unstable, but that is part of the fun! Read more and download … Continue reading →

The people over at the Raspberry Pi foundations do not rest. Having doubled the provided memory without affecting the price, they go on to deliver the schematics for the second revision of the boards. A great platform keeps improving, pushing … Continue reading →

A while back, the Raspberry Pi foundation announced that they are selling additional codecs in their webstore. The Pi comes with H264 support out of the box, but MPEG2 and VC-1 (some Microsoft thingie) are nice to have as well. … Continue reading →

My order for Raspberry Pis just arrived from Farnell. It took less than a week to get them – very nice. For everybody else ordering multiple Pis from Farnell, here are some tips: Do not use the rpiquotes@, instead, register … Continue reading →