An anonymous reader quotes Tom’s Hardware:
One Raspberry Pi can make a nice web server, but what happens if you put more than 1,000 of them together? At Oracle’s OpenWorld convention on Monday, the company showed off a Raspberry Pi Supercomputer that combines 1,060 Raspberry Pis into one powerful cluster. According to ServeTheHome, which first reported the story, the supercomputer features scores…
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Latest Lakka Release On Raspberry Pi 4 Showcases Great Retro Gaming
MojoKid writes: Lakka with RetroArch is one of the most comprehensive open-source retro-gaming console front ends available, with support for a wide array of single-board computers and multiple operating systems. Although the more powerful Raspberry Pi 4 was released months ago, the developers of Lakka had a number of bugs to contend with that prevented an official stable release, until yesterday….
Biohackers Use a Raspberry Pi to Implant a Networked Hard Drive
“Biohackers took one small but important step toward the science fiction dystopia depicted in William Gibson’s Johnny Mnemonic,” reports The Parallax, in an article shared by Slashdot reader Iwastheone: The Four Thieves Vinegar biohacking collective has not figured out how to precisely mimic the memory data transfer scenario Gibson conjured, but it has built a device to enable people to store…
Ask Slashdot: Budget-Friendly Webcam Without a Cloud Service?
simpz writes: Does anyone know of a fairly inexpensive webcam that doesn’t depend on a cloud service? A few years ago, you could buy a cheap webcam (with the usual pan/tilt and IR) for about $50 that was fully manageable from a web browser. Nowadays the web interfaces are limited in functionality (or non-existent), or you need a phone app that…
Cybersecurity test on ISS
A compact experiment aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for future space missions is operational in Europe’s Columbus module of the International Space Station, running in part on a Raspberry Pi Zero computer costing just a few euros. Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-07-cybersecurity-iss.html…
Mozilla Debuts Implementation of WebThings Gateway Open Source Router Firmware
An anonymous reader shares a report: For the better part of two years, the folks at Mozilla have been diligently chipping away at Mozilla WebThings, an open implementation of the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C) Web of Things standard for monitoring and controlling connected devices. In April, it gained a number of powerful logging, alarm, and networking features, and this week,…
‘The Raspberry Pi 4 Needs a Fan’
Author and programmer Jeff Geerling explains in a blog post why the new Raspberry Pi 4 needs a fan. Unlike previous Pis that didn’t require a fan or heatsink to avoid CPU throttling, the Pi 4 is a different beast and “pretty much demands a fan,” writes Geerling. “Not only does the CPU get appreciably hot even under normal load, there…
Raspberry Pi Admits To Faulty USB-C Design On the Pi 4
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Raspberry Pi 4 was announced two weeks ago as a major new upgrade to the line of cheap single-board hobbyist computers. The Pi 4 featured a faster CPU, options for up to 4GB of RAM, and a new, modern USB-C port for power delivery. The Pi 4 was the Raspberry Pi…
Interview With PINE64 On the Upcoming Release of the PineBook Pro
intensivevocoder writes: One of the consequences of the explosive popularity of the Raspberry Pi is the flourishing of competing ecosystems of single-board computers (SBCs). Aside from the accessibility a $35 price tag offers, the foremost benefit of the Raspberry Pi is the community — the proliferation of projects and integrations that center around the Raspberry Pi, and the ease-of-use that creates,…
Slashdot Asks: What Do You Do With Your Raspberry Pi?
The Raspberry Pi is a small single-board computer that’s exploded in popularity over the years thanks to its wide array of uses. While it was originally designed to promote the teaching of basic computer science in schools and in developing countries, the computers have been adapted to be used for robotics, media, game and print servers, and even as replacements for…