Webcam video in ASCII in real time — YouTuber used his own program, which can be downloaded

News Technologies 03-24-2025 at 15:18 comment
ASCII is fascinating even in the age of 4K HDR video, with hundreds of tiny printed characters creating a unique aesthetic. Video in ASCII, coming straight from the camera, is impressive.

Raspberry Pi has dropped a $90 Pi 500 computer and $100 monitor — a desktop kit is also available

News Devices 12-11-2024 at 21:49 comment
Raspberry Pi has introduced its own take on desktop organization. The computer-in-a-keyboard Raspberry Pi 500 and Raspberry Pi Monitor are a perfect combo.

Tesla Cybertrack is resting: a father has created the most technologically advanced children’s car for his daughter

News Auto 08-31-2024 at 00:20 comment
Perhaps Tesla should take a closer look at this man. With the help of a Raspberry Pi, John Scagmo has turned a back-and-forth children’s electric car into the most technologically advanced car in its class.

Pilet Pocket PC on Raspberry Pi supports external keyboard and AI module

News Devices 08-28-2024 at 12:46 comment
The Raspberry Pi is well suited for building portable PCs: it is small, supports external devices, and can be designed into a compact case. Soulcircuit’s development team has created a portable PC based on Raspberry Pi 5 modular pocket PC Pilet.

A full 3D game was launched on Raspberry Pi for the first time — thanks to PCIe x4 and AMD Radeon graphics card

News Devices 08-15-2024 at 12:24 comment
Pineboards, a manufacturer of expansion boards for Raspberry Pi, has demonstrated how far PCIe support has come with the Pi 5. With one of their products, the company connected an AMD Radeon graphics card to a Raspberry Pi 5 and played a full-fledged open-source 3D game.

From software to hard: the Winamp player plays music and is controlled from the touch screen

News Devices 06-08-2024 at 20:04 comment
Rodmg enthusiast has created a physical implementation of the retro Winamp music player based on Raspberry Pi 4 called Linamp. It can play mp3, m4a, FLAC, and other digital formats from a file system, including SMB networks. There is a playlist management, real-time display of the spectrum analyzer, track information, bitrate and sample rate,…

Mandrake with GPT-4o: blogger talks to the plant with a Raspberry Pi

News Technologies 05-25-2024 at 18:39 comment
Keeping plants is a business that requires care, knowledge, and patience. Plants can’t tell you if something is wrong with them, and when it becomes noticeable, it’s often too late to do anything about it. Blogger Matt Reed has made it possible to literally talk to a plant with a GPT-4o and a Raspberry Pi and ask if it’s okay.

A terminal recreated from the Fallout games controls a smart home using a Raspberry Pi

News Devices 05-23-2024 at 00:16 comment
Anyone who has played Fallout is familiar with the terminals placed throughout the game world. These are computers that the player interacts with regularly during the game. For the enthusiast Rick (@r1ckp) managed to create a real working copy of the nfrjuj terminal using a Raspberry Pi. This project brings a piece of the Fallout universe to the…

Sony’s cassette deck turned into a wireless receiver using a Raspberry Pi

News Devices 05-16-2024 at 19:11 comment
User Reddit Unchecked_arrogance turned an old Sony cassette deck into a wireless receiver. One of the cassette compartments was converted into a touchscreen display running on a Raspberry Pi. At the same time, the cassette playback functionality was retained in the second compartment, and the cassette part works independently of the digital part.

Raspberry Pi celebrates 12th anniversary with sales of over 61 million devices

News Devices 02-29-2024 at 18:32 comment
The Raspberry Pi microcomputer is 12 years old. The first device was released on February 29, 2012 and had an initial run of 10 thousand units. But as demand outstripped supply, more were produced later. Since then, 57 million Raspberry Pi computers and 4 million Raspberry Pi Pico microcontrollers have been sold.

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