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One maker has turned a PicoTouch capacitive board into a wave synthesiser. This #MagPiMonday, Lucy Hattersley channels her inner Kraftwerk. The capacitive pads act as buttons with the bottom row used as a scale of notes, and the top row adjusting the waveform pattern. The sound is generated by Raspberry Pi Pico which also acts as a MIDI connection when connected to a MIDI device or computer Tod Ku

The everything computer. Optimised. With 2–3× the speed of the previous generation, and featuring silicon designed in‑house for the best possible performance, we’ve redefined the Raspberry Pi experience. Coming October 2023

Today, we’re delighted to announce the launch of Raspberry Pi 5, coming at the end of October. Priced at $60 for the 4GB variant, and $80 for its 8GB sibling (plus your local taxes), virtually every aspect of the platform has been upgraded, delivering a no-compromises user experience. Raspberry Pi 5 comes with new features, it’s over twice as fast as its predecessor, and it’s the first Raspberry P

Ever since we launched Raspberry Pi Pico, and our RP2040 microcontroller, in January 2021, people have been using one Pico to debug programs running on another. Inspired by this trend, today we’re launching the Raspberry Pi Debug Probe, a complete debug hardware solution for Arm-based microcontrollers, powered by RP2040, and priced at just $12. The Raspberry Pi Debug Probe provides: A USB to Seria

Vineyard Kikushima grows Merlot, Pinot Noir, and Cabernet Sauvignon grapes on steep slopes in Katsunuma, the heart of of Yamanashi’s wine region. It’s scenic and full of wine — double tick — but humid conditions attract lots of insects prone to attacking grapevines. And while these insects can be managed using pesticides, that approach risks tarnishing the flavour of the wine as well as being unde

Today, we’re happy to announce the launch of Raspberry Pi Camera Module 3. Four different variants of Camera Module 3, in fact, starting at the familiar price of $25. We’ve produced Camera Modules with both visible-light and infrared-sensitive options, and with either a standard or wide field of view (FoV). And in place of the fixed-focus optics of its predecessors, Camera Module 3 provides powere

For the first time in a couple of years of semiconductor supply chain hell, we’ve got some good news for you. If you’ve tried to buy pretty much anything recently, you’ll realise that we are in the midst of a global supply chain crisis, affecting everything from cement and fenceposts to jewellery and clothing. Various aspects of this crisis have impacted our business, but persistent shortages of t

When you think of synth music, racks of keyboards, or massive DJ rigs, Korg probably comes to mind. And if those thoughts are accompanied by memories of handfuls of glowsticks and whistles as necklaces, we can be friends. The iconic instrument makers have being going since the 1960s and were responsible for Japan’s first synthesizer. As electronic music got bigger in later decades, so did Korg, an

The Raspberry Pi kernel is stored in GitHub and can be viewed at github.com/raspberrypi/linux; it follows behind the main Linux kernel. The main Linux kernel is continuously updating; we take long-term releases of the kernel, which are mentioned on the front page, and integrate the changes into the Raspberry Pi kernel. We then create a 'next' branch which contains an unstable port of the kernel; a

The ongoing emergency at Twitter has made a lot of us take a serious look at social media. After a lot of debate here at Pi Towers, we’ve now spun up our own Mastodon instance. The best thing about it? It’s running on a Raspberry Pi 4 hosted at Mythic Beasts. Last time we talked about Mastodon, we told you why we were doing it. Today’s post talks about how you can join us. Our own Mastodon instanc

Brompton folding bicycles are a British urban icon. So when we heard they had been using Raspberry Pi in their production since 2013, we just had to go and have a look. Jack, Brian, Roger, and Helen travelled from Pi Towers down to Brompton’s London factory to see our tiny computers in action. And despite our Helen riding an obnoxiously large bike, even she fell for Brompton’s sleek, compact desig

At the tail end of last week we launched Raspberry Pi Pico W. Based around our own RP2040 microcontroller, the Pico W brings 802.11n wireless networking to the Pico family. This means that your Raspberry Pi Pico W can now talk to the network, but also that the network can talk back to it; and you can run a webserver on your Pico W to allow you to control things remotely. Installing MicroPython on

New product alert! In January last year, we launched the $4 Raspberry Pi Pico, our first product built on silicon designed here at Raspberry Pi. At its heart is the RP2040 microcontroller, built on TSMC’s 40nm low-power process, and incorporating two 133MHz Arm Cortex-M0+ cores, 264kB of on-chip SRAM, and our unique programmable I/O subsystem. Since launch, we’ve sold nearly two million Pico board

One of the things which we spend a lot of time thinking about here at Raspberry Pi is security. Cyber-attacks and hacking are, sadly, constantly on the increase, and Raspberry Pi computers are as much a target as any other, just because there are so many of them out there nowadays! Over the years, we have gradually ramped up the security of Raspberry Pi OS; not in response to particular threats, b

As you can see from the table above, it is easy to be confused about which products will support which Debian/Raspbian ports. Using arm6hf (Raspbian’s derivative of armhf with ARMv7-only instructions removed but floating-point instructions retained) provides us with an operating system which will run on every device we have ever manufactured, all the way back to 2011. But we’ve come to realise tha

Yesterday we released our first Raspberry Pi OS image built on top of Debian Bullseye. Alongside the usual package upgrades that accompany every major Debian release, this provides a more modern composited desktop environment on Raspberry Pi 4 boards with 2GB or more of memory, and retires our legacy display and camera support in favour of KMS and libcamera respectively. 1.5GHz to 1.8GHz But some

Every two years, Debian Linux, on which Raspberry Pi OS is based, gets a major version upgrade. Debian ‘buster’ has been the basis of Raspberry Pi OS since its release in 2019, and Debian ‘bullseye’ was released in August. (As some of you may know, Debian name their versions after characters in Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story films – Bullseye was Woody’s horse in Toy Story 2.) We’ve been working on the c

It’s been nearly six years since we unleashed the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero on an unsuspecting world. Of all the products we’ve launched, Zero is still the one I’m proudest of: it most perfectly embodies our mission to give people access to tools, and to eliminate cost as a barrier. We’ve sold nearly four million units of Zero, and its $10 wireless-enabled big brother Zero W, and they’ve made their way

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Baltic is a handsome 1962 vintage tugboat that was built in Norway, where she operated until the 1980s. She’s now in English waters, having been registered in Southampton once renovations were complete. After some initial hull restoration work in France she sailed to the western Ligurian coast in Italy, where it took about five years to complete the work. The boat’s original exterior was restored,

Maker Mellow was inspired by watching the progress of NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover and wanted in on the interplanetary robot scene. Their first idea was to build a scale version of Perseverance, but when their partner stepped in to suggest that starting smaller might be a little easier, Zippy was born. Zippy 3.0 showcase courtesy of Mellow’s reddit post Hardware Raspberry Pi Zero W Motor driver