The official Raspberry Pi Foundation has today announced the availability of its new RP2040 as single chips from just $1. RP2040 chips are now available from the companies “Approved Reseller” partners in single-unit quantities, allowing you to build your own projects and products on Raspberry Silicon, 2 mm² of 40 nm silicon, in a 7×7 …
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The biggest news this week is that Raspberry Pi is no longer synonymous with single-board Linux computers: they’re dipping their toes into the microcontroller business with their first chip: the RP2040, and the supporting breakout board, the Pico. It’s an affordable, capable microcontroller being made by a firm that’s never made microcontrollers before, so that’s newsy. The …
Fujitsu recently announced the expansion of its Futro thin client line with the addition of three new models; Futro S9010 — Pentium Silver J5040 (4x Goldmont Plus cores @ 2.0GHz/3.2GHz); Intel UHD Graphics 605 — D3543-A2 (Mini-ITX) Futro S7010 — Celeron J4125 — (4x Goldmont Plus cores @ 2.0GHz/2.7GHz); Intel UHD Graphics 600 — D3544-A2 (Mini-STX Futro …
THIN CLIENTS RUN LINUX-BASED ELUX ON GEMINI LAKE REFRESH CHIPS Read More »
Tiny device could replace expensive lab-scale equipment for many applications. Spectrometers — devices that distinguish different wavelengths of light and are used to determine the chemical composition of everything from laboratory materials to distant stars — are large devices with six-figure price tags, and tend to be found in large university and industry labs or …
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Ken Shirriff has a detailed write-up about the multi-level ROM in Intel’s 8087 floating point chip: The 8087 chip provided fast floating point arithmetic for the original IBM PC and became part of the x86 architecture used today. One unusual feature of the 8087 is it contained a multi-level ROM (Read-Only Memory) that stored two …
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Though many alternatives are available, the Raspberry Pi computer boards are probably the most well known and widely used in the maker community. But they don’t suit every project, and Hardkernel recognizes that there’s a strong market for more powerful, more capable and more expensive boards. And the Odroid N2 ticks all of those boxes. Hardkernel has …
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AMD has combined ARM and x86 processors in its latest mobile accelerated processing units (APUs). This is AMD’s first implementation of ARM-based technology into processors designed for consumer and commercial client devices. The mobile APUs, formerly codenamed “Beema” and “Mullins,”incorporate up to four newly-designed x86 CPU cores and a hardware-level data security solution based on the ARM Cortex-A5 processor core.Products based …
In this entry I will demonstrate how to interface the MCP3008; an SPI-based analog to digital converter (ADC) integrated chip, to the Raspberry Pi. This enables the Raspberry Pi to interpret analog voltages that are in turn typically emitted by analog-based sensors to reflect a measure of a physical characteristic such as acceleration, light intensity …
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Contents Windows Serial Windows I2C Raspberry Pi Serial Raspberry Pi I2C Arduino Mini Project Additional resources FAQ Purchase <Byvac Shop> <eBay shop> This is a 20 pin IC that will take either a serial or I2C input and convert this to suitable signals for a standard character type LCD display, these usually come as 16×2, …
