Raspberry Pi
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Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Now Costs $385, More Than Three Times Its $120 Launch Price The most powerful Raspberry Pi has just become the most expensive one by a wide margin. On 2 November, Raspberry Pi raised the price of the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 by $80, to $385. That is more than three times the $120 the board cost when it launched in January 2025. The 16GB Compute Module 5 variants go up by $40 each. Why the price went up againCEO Eben Upton blamed memory. He wrote… |
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This Robot Plays Othello Without Flipping a Single Disc, Thanks to 64 Color-Changing LEDs In Grade 11, maker Jeneus tried to write an Othello program in C++. It ended up buggy and the computer could only play random moves. Years later, with mechatronics skills, he turned that failure into Othellobot: a gantry robot that watches the board with a camera, picks its move and places clear tokens with a suction cup. The smart part is that it never flips a disc. Every cell has its own LED… |
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A Wheelchair Motor and a Raspberry Pi Turn an Old 8-Foot Dish Into a Satellite Ground Station Big satellite dishes from the 80s and 90s still sit in fields everywhere, usually rusting. YouTuber and fabricator Cranktown City found an eight-foot one and turned it into a working satellite ground station on his new plot of land, with a Raspberry Pi doing the aiming and the decoding. The build video has passed 220,000 views. Pointing an eight-foot dish… |
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A 1984 Tomy Omnibot Gets a Raspberry Pi 5 Brain and an AI Camera That Knows 80 Objects In 1984, Tomy sold the Omnibot as the robot butler of the future. It could roll around, play cassette tapes and carry drinks on a tray, but it had no real intelligence: everything came from a remote or a pre-recorded tape. Forty-two years later, maker Mario Cruz has given a donated Omnibot at Moonlighter FabLab in Miami the brain it was promised, using a Raspberry Pi 5, the Raspberry Pi AI… |
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A $35 Raspberry Pi Replaces a $50,000 Broadcast Tape Deck in This DIY 1990s TV Station Built From Six Pis and Two Picos The analog TV signals that old tube sets need stopped being broadcast almost 20 years ago, so when BorisDigital bought a 1995 Sony Watchman pocket CRT TV for 15 dollars at a thrift store, it had nothing to watch. A cheap analog TV transmitter board fixed that. Then he kept going. The result is a full 1990s-style TV station in a 10-inch home lab rack, built from six Raspberry Pis, two Raspberry… |
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Raspberry Pi Rescues Old Wi-Fi Radios: Open-Source HLS-to-MP3 Converter Hits v2.3 Plenty of perfectly good internet radios, including many built on Frontier Silicon modules, can play a plain MP3 stream over HTTP but have no idea what to do with an HLS (.m3u8) playlist. When a favourite station moves to HLS, the radio simply goes quiet. Clifford Farrugia built HLS Radio Converter to fix that. It runs on a Raspberry Pi on your home network, pulls the HLS stream, and hands the… |
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Raspberry Pi 4 Runs a Real Apollo Guidance Computer Inside This 1:1 3D-Printed DSKY Replica The DSKY was the keypad and display Apollo astronauts used to talk to the Apollo Guidance Computer, and Michael Newton has rebuilt one at 1:1 scale from archived NASA and MIT drawings. Inside the 3D-printed case, a Raspberry Pi 4B runs yaAGC, the Virtual AGC project's emulator of the original computer, so the keypad, the green VERB/NOUN/PROG readout and the warning lights all behave as they… |
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A Single 1GB DDR4 Chip Now Costs More Than an Entire 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 A single mainstream DDR4 chip now costs more on the spot market than a whole entry-level Raspberry Pi. In its latest memory spot price report, TrendForce put the average spot price of a DDR4 1Gx8 3200 MT/s chip (8 Gb, or 1 GB) at US$46.357 for the week of October 20, up 0.84%. Raspberry Pi still lists the 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 at US$45. If you design boards or buy SBCs, memory now decides your… |
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No PC, No Cables: This Raspberry Pi 4 Beams an FPV Drone Sim Straight Into Your Analog Goggles Developer juricabi has built StickTime Pi, an open-source project that turns a Raspberry Pi 4 into a "virtual quad". The Pi runs the StickTime FPV simulator and pushes the picture through a 5.8 GHz video transmitter (VTX) wired to its AV jack, so the game shows up in the same analog goggles you use for real flights. You fly it with your own radio over the ExpressLRS/Crossfire WiFi joystick,… |
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Building a Private AI Media Library With Raspberry Pi 5 for Smart Photo Search and Auto Backups to Two USB Drives Alonso Vidales has built Off The Cloud, an open-source Raspberry Pi 5 project that lets users store, search and share family photos without relying on a traditional cloud photo and video -storage service. Instead of sending photos and videos to an external server for storage and AI analysis, the system keeps them on a device at home. It automatically backs up full-resolution photos and videos… |
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Turning a Backyard into an 8-Foot Satellite Ground Station with Raspberry Pi to Capture Weather Images from Space Cranktown City has built a DIY satellite ground station that uses an 8-foot satellite dish to follow satellites as they move across the sky and receive the radio signals they transmit. Unlike a manually operated dish, this system can calculate a satellite's position and automatically move the dish to follow it. One of the project's biggest achievements is receiving full-disk weather images… |
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iPod Lives Again: Open-Source RPi Motherboard Adds Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, USB-C, 2TB Storage, Spotify, Apple Music & More For nearly two decades, vintage Apple iPods have been dormant in desk drawers, victims of dead batteries, obsolete charging cables, and retired iTunes libraries. Now, a London-based hardware startup called Certain Things is changing the narrative with Sprout, an open-source replacement motherboard that drags early-2000s music players kicking and screaming into the modern wireless era. Rather… |
