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by whiskers 6mo ago
Pick and place machines can place components very precisely at any angle - they really don’t care!
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by whiskers 7mo ago
They did, it's the Raspberry Pi Pico (as opposed to the Raspberry Pi) as a dev board or the RP2350 (as opposed to the BCMXXXX) as a chip.
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by whiskers 7mo ago
Yes.
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by whiskers 7mo ago
This is about the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (based on the RP2350), not the original Raspberry Pi.
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by whiskers 7mo ago
Haha — this was a fun day! It's honestly surprising how robust the RP2350 was under such extreme experimentation. Mike's write-up walks through pushing the core voltages far beyond stock limits and dry-ice cooling to see what the
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In a Rock on Mars, NASA Sees 'Clearest Sign of Life' So Far(nytimes.com)
6 points by whiskers 1y ago|0 comments
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by whiskers 2y ago
You might be thinking of Progress Quest!
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by whiskers 2y ago
There's been much debate about Raspberry Pi straying from its mission to provide affordable computers. I disagree. Raspberry Pi offers models ranging from $10 to $120, all readily available — more so than ever. Adjusted for inflation,
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by whiskers 2y ago
It is still cheap and accessible. The cheapest Pi model is just over $10 [1], the most expensive is $120 [2]. And within that range there are a number of options with different CPU power, connectivity options, and RAM. Take your pick! [1] R
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by whiskers 2y ago
Because now there is a large range of options. Here's your $20 Pi (still supported and available to buy): https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w Here's your $120 Pi (many times faster and wi
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by whiskers 2y ago
We have a pre-order up for these while stock is limited during launch in case you want to get in the queue! https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-ai-kit
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by whiskers 3y ago
It's not.. `light-color` refers to the colour you want presented if the user's preference is for a "light" theme. It's not declaring the relative brightness of the two colours - I agree it could be documented a litt
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Show HN: PicoVision – A HDMI video stick with dual RP2040 chips (CPU and GPU)(shop.pimoroni.com)
7 points by whiskers 3y ago|1 comments
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by whiskers 3y ago
Clickable link to product page: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-4
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Tell HN: Raspberry Pi 4 8GB available again
11 points by whiskers 3y ago|4 comments
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by whiskers 3y ago
For UK customers we also have 2GB, 4GB, and 8GB Raspberry Pi 4 in stock, things are finally starting to improve meaningfully! https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-4 We do ship worldwide but other resellers w
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by whiskers 3y ago
Home baked bread freezes really well so take advantage of that! I also bake a lot of bread at home and usually make a batch of 1kg of flour at a time, that results in two good sized loaves - one goes in the freezer until the other is fini
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by whiskers 3y ago
I've been in America only once while overnighting in a hotel near LAX en-route to New Zealand from the UK. Everything I ate at that hotel tasted sweet from the pizza I ordered that night to the toast I had in the morning. What should h
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by whiskers 3y ago
This is correct, and we have been able to ease up on the restrictions a bit recently: - we reset the date before which you needed to have a previous order - the Pi Zero W is now available to all customers up to 10 per order I appre
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by whiskers 3y ago
As a counter point to this we, Pimoroni, supported a few smaller businesses that relied on Raspberry Pi during the shortages with modest numbers in direct coordination with Raspberry Pi. These were not "the largest companies" by a
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by whiskers 3y ago
"Those Pis are not coming back." Yes, they are. Disclaimer: CEO of Pimoroni - an approved Raspberry Pi reseller.
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by whiskers 3y ago
We shipped thousands last week and we didn't ship them to scalpers: https://shop.pimoroni.com/pages/ordering-restrictions-for-ra... Plenty more will come in short order, the past couple of years have been a real m
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by whiskers 3y ago
As best we understand once the supply chain issues with the parts that the 2W relies on are resolved that too will be similarly available. All Pi products have a different bill of materials (or they wouldn't be different products) so t
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by whiskers 3y ago
I used 100kB as an example purely because it was in the ball park of the images talked about in the article - not because it's a hard limit! Inky Frame has an SD card slot on board which can store huge images if needed. JPEG also can b
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by whiskers 3y ago
Context: I'm the CEO of Pimoroni who make this product. I feel like something is missing here but I don't know what. Our examples show large JPEGs being loaded in MicroPython no problem. For example this one from our examples is 1
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by whiskers 3y ago
The only part of the enclosure that is exposed PCB is the front plate, the rest is machined anodised aluminium - it feels great. All of our products meet the REACH and RoHS requiements for restricted and hazardous materials. TL;DR It's
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by whiskers 3y ago
I feel like you should add the appearance of the first dinosaurs to this list (~240mya)!
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by whiskers 4y ago
If you look at the back of the badger you'll see that we put a set of pads to solder to for GPIO! It also has a "Qw/ST" connector (STEMMA + Qwiic) that exposes an I2C bus so is ideal for adding sensors, or you could bash
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by whiskers 4y ago
It's usually called "Nearest Neighbour"!
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by whiskers 4y ago
Then write about that - that's not the clickbait angle they have gone for. A large chunk of that 36% can be explained by inflation - heck perhaps until now they have been artificially keeping the base price low to capture marketshare -

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