Raspberry Pi Projects and News
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SparkFun Electronics ☛ A Technical Comparison of the RP2350 and RP2040 Chips
Back in August, Raspberry Pi launched the of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 with the onboard RP2350 microcontroller. At the same time, SparkFun came out with the SparkFun Pro Micro - RP2350. Both sold out quickly and it took some time to get them back in stock. Now that we have healthy stock of both the Pico 2 and the Pro Micro - RP2350 we thought we'd go through the technical differences between Raspberry Pi's RP2350 and its predecessor, the RP2040.
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Pi My Life Up ☛ Switching Between Wayland and X11 on a Raspberry Pi
Since introducing Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm, the official Pi operating system has made the giant leap from X11 to Wayland.
Wayland is one of the largest and most breaking changes the OS has seen because it works fundamentally differently from X11. Primarily, this change will break any software that is not built to handle Wayland. While not a problem for actively maintained software, many older pieces will refuse to work.
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Hackaday ☛ FLOSS Weekly Episode 809: Pi4J – Stable And Boring On The Raspberry Pi
This week, Jonathan Bennett and David Ruggles chat with Frank Delporte about Pi4J, the friendly Java libraries for the Raspberry Pi, that expose GPIO, SPI, I2C and other IO interfaces. Why would anyone want to use Java for the Pi? And what’s changed since the project started? Listen to find out!
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CNX Software ☛ Nova open-source hardware Raspberry Pi RP2040 board features a 70 RGB LED matrix (Crowdfunding)
Vcc Labs’ Nova is a tiny, open-source hardware Raspberry Pi RP2040 development board with a USB-C port, a 70 (7×10) addressable RGB LED matrix, and two 12-pin GPIO headers for expansion.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Handy Raspberry Pi battery charger doubles as attractive desk clock
Max K is using a Raspberry Pi RP2040 to power his custom automated battery charger that doubles as a beautiful desk clock.