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Minecraft will soon run on Raspberry Pi

, Nov 26th 2012 Discuss [0]

The Raspberry Pi has gained a huge following since its initial release back in February, and while we were all spending time with our families over Thanksgiving, the Raspberry Pi team was hard at work with a few new features that will soon come to the $35 circuit board, one of which is the ability to play Minecraft. Read The Full Story

Raspberry Pi Model B gets 512 MB of RAM

, Oct 15th 2012 Discuss [0]

We're fans of the existing Raspberry Pi developer board's around here. These little things can be used for all sorts of purposes, including little HTPC computers and much more. As useful as these little developer boards are, there some users out there who have been clamoring for better performance. Read The Full Story

Raspberry Pi squeezes 50% performance boost with turbo mode

, Sep 19th 2012 Discuss [0]

Raspberry Pi has added a "turbo mode", squeezing 50-percent more performance out of its fruity mini computer  without dinging your warranty in the process. Reminiscent of the old "Turbo" button on 90s PC cases, the green-light tweak can in fact be set to one of five different overclock presets, boosting the ARM processor to as high as 1GHz. Read The Full Story

Cubieboard blasts at Raspberry Pi with $49 power boost

, Sep 5th 2012 Discuss [0]

If you're on the lookout for a cheap prototyping/testing/tinkering board, and Raspberry Pi and Arduino haven't yet won your dollars, the $49 Cubieboard hopes it can win you over. Like the others, it's a palm-sized board that's fair bristling with connections, but it's also capable of quite a turn of speed, using a 1GHz AllWinner A10 Coretex A8 processor and Mali-400 graphics. Read The Full Story

Raspberry Pi gets Ice Cream Sandwich

, Aug 1st 2012 Discuss [0]

Tinker-friendly developer gadget Raspberry Pi has received a jolt of Android, with a functional - though incomplete - port of Ice Cream Sandwich for the super-cheap computer. A work in progress for some time, according to the Raspberry Pi team, but kept quiet because the build isn't quite what you'd find publicly available, the Android 4.0 port could well turn the $35 PC into your perfect TV companion. Read The Full Story

Raspberry Pi takes on Google’s Project Glass

, Jul 22nd 2012 Discuss [0]

The developer / engineer known as Will Powell has taken some precise steps towards making Google's Project Glass augmented reality headset look positively late to the market, and Raspberry Pi is his next big leap. What you're about to see in the video below is a quick demonstration of how Powell has taken the Vuzix 1200 Star heads-up glasses and made them next-level awesome by utilizing the ultra-inexpensive and super cute computer known as Raspberry Pi. Though they do take a while to boot up from dead, the whole process is more than promising - it's downright exciting! Read The Full Story

Raspberry Pi gets launched into atmosphere to take near-space pictures

, Jul 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

The Rapsberry Pi is an impressive mini-computer we saw launch recently, and it's already won the hearts of many. An individual from the UK named Dave Akerman was apparently looking to have a real adventure with his new Pi, so he strapped the gadget to a weather balloon for it to be sent up into Earth's atmosphere to take pictures from near-space. And it actually did quite well. The photos can be viewed on Akerman's Flickr account. Read The Full Story

Gooseberry jams Android and overclocked CPU into Raspberry Pi rival

, Jul 18th 2012 Discuss [0]

The Raspberry Pi has definitely made some waves. Just the other day we saw a Korean company offering up a similar board with a quad-core processor, and now another affordable challenger is available. The Gooseberry Android board features a 1Ghz processor that can be overclocked to 1.5Ghz, 512MB of RAM, a Mali-400 GPU, 4GB of onboard storage, and a microSD card slot for up to 32GB of additional space. Read The Full Story

Raspberry Pi 5-megapixel camera add-on announced

, Jul 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

Earlier today we told you that the teeny tiny Raspberry Pi is now available for general order without any quantity restrictions in place, but the Raspberry Pi news isn't stopping there. A 5-megapixel camera add-on for the super-small and super-cheap computer has been announced as well, and it's expected to cost between $20 and $25. Not too bad, so long as you're okay with spending nearly as much on the camera as you did on the Raspberry Pi itself. Read The Full Story

Raspberry Pi now available for general order

, Jul 16th 2012 Discuss [0]

The Raspberry Pi mini-computer took the internet by storm when it went up for pre-order, with numbers reaching as high as 350,000. The $35 computer offered a 700Mhz ARM11 processor along with a bevy of ports, primarily aimed at being a cheap education tool for schools, although HTPC enthusiasts, among others, looked at it with hungry eyes thanks to its 1080p video capabilities. Good news if you’ve been looking to score one, as the Raspberry Pi is now on general sale with quantity restrictions also having been lifted. Read The Full Story

ODROID-X trumps Raspberry Pi with quad-core CPU

, Jul 13th 2012 Discuss [0]

The Raspberry Pi made quite a splash by offering a cheap way of computing to students or developings using a 700Mhz ARM11 processor. Now a Korean company has created a similar board utilizing a much more powerful quad-core Exynos processor from Samsung. The ODROID-X will clock the CPU at 1.4Ghz and come with 1GB of RAM, a Mali-400 GPU, six USB ports, an Ethernet port, an SD card slot, micro HDMI, and microphone/headphone jacks. Read The Full Story

Raspberry Pi gets a Heck of a nice keyboard

, Jul 10th 2012 Discuss [0]

We talked a lot about the Raspberry Pi since little device first debuted. It's a cheap little computer designed to run a free operating system making it ideal for tinkering and cobbling together your own HTPC for the living room. Modder Ben Heck has constructed a very cool project using a $35 Raspberry Pi to create what looks like a wooden Commodore 64. Read The Full Story
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