Raspberry Pi News and Projects
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Hackaday ☛ Teaching A Pi Pico E-Ink Panel New Tricks
We’ve noticed that adding electronic paper displays to projects is getting easier. [NerdCave] picked up a 4.2-inch E-ink panel but found its documentation a bit lacking when it came to using the display under MicroPython. Eventually he worked it out, and was kind enough to share with the rest of the class.
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Using generative AI to teach computing: Insights from research [Ed: Riding the latest hype waves]
Can large language models improve students’ learning experiences in computing through personalisation, responses to help requests, and well-crafted prompts?
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Raspberry Pi ☛ Raspberry Pi USB 3 Hub on sale now at $12
Why design our own hub? Well, we’d become frustrated with the quality and price of the hubs available online. Either you pay a lot of money for a nicely designed and reliable product, which works well with a broad range of hosts and peripherals; or you cheap out and get something much less compatible, or unreliable, or ugly, or all three. Sometimes you spend a lot of money and still get a lousy product.
It felt like we were trapped in a race to the bottom, where bad quality drives out good, and marketplaces like Amazon end up dominated by the cheapest thing that can just about answer to the name “hub”.