Raspberry PiInspired by the classic PCs of the 1980s, here is Raspberry Pi 400: a complete personal computer, built into a compact keyboard. Get yours today: http://rptl.io/400
Looking for kid-friendly projects, educator-led seminars, and information about our non-profit work? Check out the Raspberry Pi Foundation YouTube channel: http://rptl.io/rpfyt
NEW Raspberry Pi 400: a computer in a keyboardRaspberry Pi2020-11-02 | Inspired by the classic PCs of the 1980s, here is Raspberry Pi 400: a complete personal computer, built into a compact keyboard. Get yours today: http://rptl.io/400
Looking for kid-friendly projects, educator-led seminars, and information about our non-profit work? Check out the Raspberry Pi Foundation YouTube channel: http://rptl.io/rpfyt
#RaspberryPi #RaspberryPi400Code the Classics Volume II out now!Raspberry Pi2024-10-18 | Code the Classics Volume II is out now, featuring five games inspired by video games of the 1980s. This new volume takes you on a tour of the games that inspired their remakes. It also includes code listings and explanations to help you learn how to write games of your own.
If you played computer games back in the 1980s, you may have typed game code into your computer. Back then, computer game listings graced the pages of books from Usborne and magazines like ANALOG Computing and The Micro User. Spend a couple of hours of typing in code, and soon you’d be playing a game you could modify and learn from. A reasonable trade: you’d earn a gaming experience that matched what you could buy from your local computer store. And you’d learn a bit along the way!
Code the Classics Volume II features retro arcade games written by Andrew Gillett, ably assisted by Raspberry Pi co-founder and CEO Eben Upton along with Sean M. Tracey. Dan Malone (famous for his work with The Bitmap Brothers) created the game graphics, and long-time game audio pro Allister Brimble provided the music and sound effects. Simon Brew, David Crookes, and Liz Upton wrote the stories that take you behind the scenes of the creation of the five classic arcade games featured in this book. What’s more, the book opens with a foreword from Dr. David Braben, co-creator of best-selling computer game Elite.
In this new volume, you’ll meet these vintage-inspired games, and learn from their code in between rounds of play:
Avenger: fly across a scrolling landscape while you save humans from malevolent aliens
Beat Streets: fight your way through a level, and defeat a notorious crime boss
Eggzy: collect gems and survive as long as possible before time runs out
Leading Edge: Race a car on a pseudo-3D race track
Kinetix: Break bricks with your paddle, and use powerups to avoid various menaces
Code the Classics Volume II features abridged code listings along with detailed explanations of the game logic. Not only that, you can download the source code from our GitHub repo and play all the games yourself. The book is available now from the Raspberry Pi Press store, and will be on sale from various print and electronic bookstores in the coming weeks.
Buy your copy now: store.rpipress.cc/products/code-the-classics-volume-iiRaspberry Pi Pico 2 stuns in cosy fall photoshootRaspberry Pi2024-10-09 | ...How to fit the Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+Raspberry Pi2024-10-02 | The Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ enables you to connect M.2 peripherals such as NVMe drives and AI accelerators to Raspberry Pi 5’s PCIe 2.0 interface, supporting fast (up to 500 MB/s) data transfer to and from NVMe drives and other PCIe accessories.
Overview:
Raspberry Pi 5’s single-lane PCI Express 2.0 interface is exposed on a 16-pin, 0.5mm- pitch FPC connector; the M.2 HAT+ M Key is a mechanical adapter board that converts between this connector and a subset of the M.2 standard. It supports devices that have the M.2 M key edge connector, in the 2230 and 2242 form factors. It is capable of supplying up to 3A to connected M.2 devices.
The Raspberry Pi M.2 HAT+ conforms to the Raspberry Pi HAT+ specification and is autodetected by the latest Raspberry Pi software/firmware. It is supplied with a 16mm stacking header and threaded spacers, so it can be fitted to a Raspberry Pi 5 with the Raspberry Pi Active Cooler in place.
Specifications:
Supports single-lane PCIe 2.0 interface (500 MB/s peak transfer rate)
Supports devices that use the M.2 M key edge connector • Supports devices with the 2230 or 2242 form factor Capable of supplying up to 3A to connected M.2 devices • Includes power and activity LEDs
Conforms to the Raspberry Pi HAT+ specification
Supplied with ribbon cable, 16mm stacking header, threaded spacers and screws, and knurled double-flanged screw to secure and support the M.2 peripheral
Buy now: raspberrypi.com/products/m2-hat-plusRaspberry Pi AI Camera - Pose estimation demoRaspberry Pi2024-09-30 | The Raspberry Pi AI Camera, built using Sony’s IMX500 Intelligent Vision Sensor, lets you create impressive vision AI applications and neural network models.
On sale now for $70.
The AI Camera combines a 12-megapixel camera sensor, an RP2040, a powerful Digital Signal Processor (DSP), and dedicated on-chip SRAM for high-speed AI processing. The camera augments captured still images or video with tensor metadata for further processing or display on a host Raspberry Pi.
The new product is compatible with all Raspberry Pi computers, including the latest Raspberry Pi 5. This means users can build with familiar hardware and software: you can use applications running on the host Raspberry Pi, like `rpicam-apps` and Picamera2, to interface with the output from the AI Camera.
You can also find us on TikTok, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter/XRaspberry Pi AI Camera - Object detection demoRaspberry Pi2024-09-30 | The Raspberry Pi AI Camera, built using Sony’s IMX500 Intelligent Vision Sensor, lets you create impressive vision AI applications and neural network models.
On sale now for $70.
The AI Camera combines a 12-megapixel camera sensor, an RP2040, a powerful Digital Signal Processor (DSP), and dedicated on-chip SRAM for high-speed AI processing. The camera augments captured still images or video with tensor metadata for further processing or display on a host Raspberry Pi.
The new product is compatible with all Raspberry Pi computers, including the latest Raspberry Pi 5. This means users can build with familiar hardware and software: you can use applications running on the host Raspberry Pi, like `rpicam-apps` and Picamera2, to interface with the output from the AI Camera.
You can also find us on TikTok, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter/XCode the Classics Volume II OUT NOW from Raspberry Pi PressRaspberry Pi2024-09-19 | Code the Classics Volume II is out now, featuring five games inspired by video games of the 1980s. This new volume takes you on a tour of the games that inspired their remakes. It also includes code listings and explanations to help you learn how to write games of your own.
Code the Classics Volume II not only tells the stories of some of the seminal video games of the 1980s, but shows you how to create your own games inspired by them, following examples programmed by Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton. In this book, you'll learn how to run and edit the games in this book by installing Python, Pygame Zero, and an IDE.
You'll also:
- Get game design tips and tricks from the masters. - Understand the fundamental tasks needed for every game: display images, play sound effects and receive inputs from the keyboard or a game controller. - Learn how to code your own games with Pygame Zero, a library that helps automate those tasks. Explore the code listings and find out how they work.
You'll meet these vintage-inspired games, and learn from their code in between rounds of play:
- Avenger: fly across a scrolling landscape while you save humans from malevolent aliens. - Beat Streets: fight your way through a level, and defeat a notorious crime boss. - Eggzy: collect gems and survive as long as possible before time runs out. - Leading Edge: Race a car on a pseudo-3d race track. - Kinetix: Break bricks with your paddle, and use powerups to avoid various menaces.
You can also find us on TikTok, Instagram, Threads, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter/X3D printing a giant Raspberry Pi 5 in resinRaspberry Pi2024-08-30 | Another thing we have absolutely *no* idea what to do with but had fun making in the Pi Towers Maker Lab.
This was an excellent tutorial project for staff wanting to learn how to use this machine.The Computers That Made BritainRaspberry Pi2024-08-21 | The home computer boom of the 1980s brought with it now-iconic machines such as the ZX Spectrum, BBC Micro, and Commodore 64. Those machines would inspire a generation. The Computers That Made Britain tells the story of 19 of those computers – and what happened behind the scenes. With dozens of new interviews, discover the tales of missed deadlines, technical faults, business interference, and the unheralded geniuses who brought to the UK everything from the Dragon 32 and ZX81, to the Amstrad CPC 464 and Commodore Amiga.
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piGoogle Pigweed comes to our new RP2350Raspberry Pi2024-08-20 | The Pigweed team has built a great demo for you to try on your Raspberry Pi Pico or Pico 2. This demo shows off lots of complex stuff handled and enabled by Pigweed, including:
- Hermetic building, flashing, and testing through Bazel - Fully open-source Clang/LLVM toolchain for embedded that includes a compiler, linker, and C/C++ libraries with modern performance, features, and standards compliance - Structuring your codebase around sensible, hardware-agnostic C++ through - Pigweed's extensive collection of libraries - Communicating with your Pico over RPC - Viewing Pico logs and sending commands to the Pico over an interactive and customizable REPL - Authoring in Visual Studio Code with C++, Starlark code intelligence, and Bazel command integration - Cross-platform builds and toolchains, development on macOS or Linux (Windows support is on its way) - Device simulation on your host computer - Continuous building and testing with GitHub Actions
Go here to try the demo out: https://pigweed.dev/docs/showcases/sense/ Or go here to learn more about Pigweed: https://pigweed.dev/
Subscribe to our channel: http://rptl.io/youtubeRaspberry Pi 5 2GB joins the familyRaspberry Pi2024-08-19 | Priced at just $50, this new 2GB variant continues our mission to bring high-performance general-purpose computing to the widest possible audience.
In many ways, this is the product that finally delivered on the original Raspberry Pi dream: an affordable general-purpose desktop computer, indistinguishable from a traditional PC for most users, and bundled with all the tools and collateral required for a beginner to go from “hello, world” to a career in engineering.
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piIntroducing Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our new $5 microcontroller board, on sale nowRaspberry Pi2024-08-08 | We’re happy to announce the launch of Raspberry Pi Pico 2, our second-generation microcontroller board, built on RP2350: a new high-performance, secure microcontroller designed here at Raspberry Pi.
With a higher core clock speed, twice the memory, more powerful Arm cores, new security features, and upgraded interfacing capabilities, Pico 2 delivers a significant performance and feature uplift, while retaining hardware and software compatibility with earlier members of the Pico series.
Subscribe to our channel: http://rptl.io/youtubeRetro Raspberry Pi Pico-powered incadenscent lampRaspberry Pi2024-07-30 | You won’t be surprised to learn that our engineers’ desks are covered in gadgets and gubbins. One particularly beautiful object caught our eye recently.
Turns out it was handmade by one of our ASIC engineers, Dave Bell, so we asked him to tell us how he did it.
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piRaspberry Pi at Open Sauce 2024Raspberry Pi2024-06-21 | What a weekend! We saw hundreds of makers, tonnes of YouTubers and probably a bajillion Raspberry Pi-powered projects.
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piWe are Raspberry PiRaspberry Pi2024-06-12 | Hi, we're Raspberry Pi. We make computers. Welcome to our channel.
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piA tale of two Raspberry PisRaspberry Pi2024-06-12 | We’re proud to announce that Raspberry Pi has listed on the London Stock Exchange, as Raspberry Pi Holdings plc.
In this video, Eben Upton, Raspberry Pi CEO, and Philip Colligan, Raspberry Pi Foundation CEO, have a good long chat about how the company and the Foundation work together, and what the IPO means for the work of both organisations to democratise computing
This is a watershed moment for Raspberry Pi, and the start of a new phase in our evolution: access to the public market will enable us to build more of the products you love, faster. And the money raised by the Raspberry Pi Foundation in the IPO will support its ambitions for global impact in its second decade; for more on what the IPO means for the Foundation, check out Philip’s blog post here.
Nearly sixteen years ago, in the autumn of 2008, a handful of us set off on this journey together. We were driven by a shared realisation that something had gone badly wrong in young people’s interaction with technology; a shared conviction that we should do something about it; and the beginnings of a shared idea of what that something might be.
In the years since, we’ve accomplished amazing things, as a company, as a Foundation, and as a broader movement. We’ve designed PCBs; written software; taped out chips; published magazines; filed patents; trained teachers; run after-school clubs; and seen our products taken to space, to the bottom of the ocean, and to the ends of the earth.
We’ve sold over sixty million low-cost, high-performance, general-purpose Raspberry Pi computers to the enthusiasts and educators who remain at the heart of the Raspberry Pi movement, and to the industrial and embedded customers who today account for over two-thirds of our sales.
And thanks to the availability and salience of those computers, and to the curriculum reform and teacher training initiatives championed by the Foundation, we have seen a resurgence in interest in computing among young people. In sixteen years, Computer Science has gone from being the easiest subject to get into at Cambridge to the hardest, a change that has been reflected across the UK higher education sector and beyond. We have engineers working for us today who got their first experience of computing on a Raspberry Pi platform.
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piRaspberry Pi AI Kit | Subject segmentation: one is an engineer, the other is a desk plantRaspberry Pi2024-06-04 | 🚨 Raspberry Pi AI Kit available now at $70 🚨
The Raspberry Pi AI Kit offers an accessible and power-efficient way to integrate local, high-performance AI into a wide variety of applications.
The kit comprises our M.2 HAT+ preassembled with a Hailo-8L AI Accelerator module. Installed on a Raspberry Pi 5, the AI Kit allows you to rapidly build complex AI vision applications, running in real time, with low latency and low power requirements.
State-of-the-art neural networks for object detection, semantic and instance segmentation, pose estimation, and facial landmarking (to name just a few) run entirely on the Hailo-8L co-processor, leaving the Raspberry Pi 5 CPU free to perform other tasks.
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piRaspberry Pi AI Kit | Object recognition: the lemon Coke “bottle” is controversial in these partsRaspberry Pi2024-06-04 | 🚨 Raspberry Pi AI Kit available now at $70 🚨
The Raspberry Pi AI Kit offers an accessible and power-efficient way to integrate local, high-performance AI into a wide variety of applications.
The kit comprises our M.2 HAT+ preassembled with a Hailo-8L AI Accelerator module. Installed on a Raspberry Pi 5, the AI Kit allows you to rapidly build complex AI vision applications, running in real time, with low latency and low power requirements.
State-of-the-art neural networks for object detection, semantic and instance segmentation, pose estimation, and facial landmarking (to name just a few) run entirely on the Hailo-8L co-processor, leaving the Raspberry Pi 5 CPU free to perform other tasks.
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piRaspberry Pi AI Kit | Pose estimation: very casual, not at all suspiciousRaspberry Pi2024-06-04 | 🚨 Raspberry Pi AI Kit available now at $70 🚨
The Raspberry Pi AI Kit offers an accessible and power-efficient way to integrate local, high-performance AI into a wide variety of applications.
The kit comprises our M.2 HAT+ preassembled with a Hailo-8L AI Accelerator module. Installed on a Raspberry Pi 5, the AI Kit allows you to rapidly build complex AI vision applications, running in real time, with low latency and low power requirements.
State-of-the-art neural networks for object detection, semantic and instance segmentation, pose estimation, and facial landmarking (to name just a few) run entirely on the Hailo-8L co-processor, leaving the Raspberry Pi 5 CPU free to perform other tasks.
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piRaspberry Pi AI Kit | Object recognition: even works when traffic on the A14 is movingRaspberry Pi2024-06-04 | 🚨 Raspberry Pi AI Kit available now at $70 🚨
The Raspberry Pi AI Kit offers an accessible and power-efficient way to integrate local, high-performance AI into a wide variety of applications.
The kit comprises our M.2 HAT+ preassembled with a Hailo-8L AI Accelerator module. Installed on a Raspberry Pi 5, the AI Kit allows you to rapidly build complex AI vision applications, running in real time, with low latency and low power requirements.
State-of-the-art neural networks for object detection, semantic and instance segmentation, pose estimation, and facial landmarking (to name just a few) run entirely on the Hailo-8L co-processor, leaving the Raspberry Pi 5 CPU free to perform other tasks.
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_pi3D printed stoormtrooper helmet | May the fourth be with youRaspberry Pi2024-05-03 | Read how (and why) we made it:
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piCamJam threw Raspberry Pi a birthday party at the University of Cambridge Computer LaboratoryRaspberry Pi2024-03-04 | Thanks to everyone who came to our third-come-12th birthday party last weekend, thrown for us by CamJam. Here is a quick recap of the day so you can immerse yourself in the experience if you weren't there, and relive the unadulterated joy if you were.
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piOur 3rd slash 12th birthday cake is *not* edible, it is full of LEDsRaspberry Pi2024-02-29 | Our Maker in Residence Toby made these laser cut acrylic party pieces to celebrate our 3rd Leap Year (and actual 12th) birthday.
Adafruit NeoPixel strips make them dazzle in "rainbow" and "sparkle" mode and everything is running off Pimoroni's Pico W Aboard Plasma Stick 2040 W.
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piValentines Day at Pi TowersRaspberry Pi2024-02-14 | We asked you all to send in Valentine's messages so we could scroll them on the giant mirror made from over 500 crystals in the pi Towers lobby. Everyone behaved themselves and it was all above board.
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piMassive magic mirror made from 576 glass crystalsRaspberry Pi2024-02-05 | We wanted a big project for the lobby at Pi Towers: something large and visually impactful. Our Maker in Residence Toby Roberts was inspired by Alex's (aka SuperMakeSomething) NeoPixel LED mirror, and wanted to do something similar but with a blingy twist. He thought designing something that requires 576 glass crystals was the way to go.
It's a 24 × 24 grid of NeoPixels, each with one crystal stuck in front of it. The NeoPixels are in an array configuration so they can be individually addressed to do all sorts of fun things. Like the project that inspired it, it can work as an LED mirror, and these functions are controlled by a 7" Raspberry Pi Touch Display, which shares an enclosure with the power supply on the back of the frame.
It's a hefty build. The whole thing including the frame weighs about 70kg, because each of the 576 crystals is real glass. That's as much as many adult humans. Toby spent an entire day blunting the pointy end of each individual crystal with a bench sander so he could fix them to the LED board's flat surface. He was quite patient about it, but will not be planning any more 576-crystal builds in the near future.
Its big party trick is the mirror thing. Using a Raspberry Pi #camera mounted on the top edge of the frame, it captures video of whoever is standing in front of it, converts the footage to 24 × 24-pixel format, and reflects their likeness back in illuminated crystalline form. It's like a blinged-out version of a supermarket security camera you wave at when you see yourself in the little telly as you go through the automatic doors. It's a huge hit with visitors to Pi Towers.
Other equally fanciful diversions include the ability to play games and display all sorts of seasonal scenes. So far, Toby has loaded Bricks and Snake, which you play using a custom laser-cut controller. The crystals can also scroll weather updates and the time. We used it as a Christmas decoration in December by displaying a #Christmas tree and falling snow. We've also had fireworks and birthday cake, and we're currently gearing up for #valentinesday with a big pink-and-red heart. It's adorable.
All these games and effects live on the #RaspberryPi 4 stuck to the back of the mirror. Toby used #ChatGPT to help him write the #Python scripts for the games and additional effects. So if you're interested in getting crafty but are daunted by the #coding side of things, why not enlist #AI to help you out?Playing snake at our desk in Pi TowersRaspberry Pi2024-01-26 | Fun for everyone.
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piPlaying Breakout on a NeoPixel displayRaspberry Pi2024-01-17 | Our Maker in Residence Toby made this using a 24 x 24 array of NeoPixels wired in the same way as the big crystal mirror he made that stands in the reception area of Pi Towers. He needed something smaller to test all the functions of the crystal mirror as the final project was so big and heavy, so this was a mini test bed.
All will be revealed about the crystal mirror soon...
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piPimoroni PicoVision (Raspberry Pi Pico W aboard) unboxingRaspberry Pi2024-01-17 | Pimoroni's PicoVision (Pico W Aboard) is a powerful digital video stick for bold audio visual adventures, with dual RP2040 chips and a conveniently HDMI-shaped output connector to boot!
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piWe went to Maker Faire Shenzhen in China!Raspberry Pi2024-01-16 | Let Matt take you on a whistle stop tour around the event (and play spot the Jason Statham lookalike along the way).
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piWe had custom raspberry red 3D printer filament made!Raspberry Pi2024-01-11 | Our special friends at Micro Center made raspberry red 3D printer filament especially for us.
Now we can print things which match our branded mugs. We LOVE matching outfits.
/ raspberry_piWe let the social media team design their own FrankenPi 5, and it is beyond horrendousRaspberry Pi2024-01-09 | While ever-so-slightly stressed at the lack of a Raspberry Pi 5 announcement over the last few years, some of our nice social media followers constructively suggested our social media staff cease posting sick memes and instead focus on getting Pi 5 manufactured. We don’t like to clip wings around here, so didn’t think twice before insisting our crack team, who know their way around ellipses better than electronics, design their own Raspberry Pi 5. What’s the worst that could happen, right? Right? Meet FrankenPi 5.
Read more about the unique design features and the professional thinking behind their inclusion:
Watch more fun stuff on TikTok: tiktok.com/@raspberry_piKnow what YOU need this Christmas? A Raspberry Pi Sense HATRaspberry Pi2023-11-24 | Know what YOU need this Christmas? A Raspberry Pi Sense HAT.
Follow us on TikTok for more.The 2023 Raspberry Pi Advent calendar from The Pi Hut is here!Raspberry Pi2023-11-16 | Shop for yours or the Raspberry Pi stores in Cambridge, UK and Leeds, UK.
(They sold out *quickly* last year FYI)
#christmascountdown #RaspberryPi
Follow us on TikTok for more.It’s tiiiiiiiiiiimeRaspberry Pi2023-11-09 | The day has come for the big festive switchover on the LED displays at Pi Towers. Pretty sure everyone is going to be *thrilled* when they come in.
#Mariahhasdefrosted #christmas #decoratingforchristmas #christmasdecor #circlebackinthenewyear #festive #mariahsznRaspberry Pi 5 is here!Raspberry Pi2023-10-23 | Visit: raspberrypi.com/5
#Pi5 #RaspberryPiImage processing on Raspberry Pi 5: our new hardware image signal processorRaspberry Pi2023-10-19 | Visit: raspberrypi.com/5
#Pi5 #raspberrypi
In this video:
Nick Hollinghurst Naush Patuck David Plowman Eben UptonDesigning the new POE+ HAT for Raspberry Pi 5: compact, efficient power and networkingRaspberry Pi2023-10-17 | Visit: raspberrypi.com/5
Find the Raspberry Pi 5 playlist on our YouTube channel for more content about our newest board, created by the Raspberry Pi community.
#Pi5Welcome to the ‘ber months. Lets all stay inside and do indoor activities.Raspberry Pi2023-09-03 | ...The world’s biggest Raspberry Pi?..Raspberry Pi2023-08-15 | The giant Pi is on display at the Grand Arcade in Cambridge, UK as part of the ‘Grand Discoveries’ installations celebrating iconic creations that have shaped Cambridge’s rich scientific heritage. That’s us. We’re iconic.
Built especially for ‘Grand Discoveries’ by our Maker in Residence Toby Roberts.