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Cover illustration for Linux 7.2 Powers Down the Raspberry Pi GPU When Idle
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Linux 7.2 Powers Down the Raspberry Pi GPU When Idle

Linux 7.2 brings runtime power management to the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 V3D GPU, cutting idle desktop draw about 3.3%, plus Pi 3 GPU hang fixes.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 20, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi CM5 Jig Flashes Modules With No Carrier
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Raspberry Pi CM5 Jig Flashes Modules With No Carrier

The official $600 Raspberry Pi CM5 programming jig flashes Compute Modules with secure boot and disk encryption without needing a carrier board.

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Alex CircuitAug 20, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Waveshare PiRack-M6F Racks Six Raspberry Pis in 2U
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Waveshare PiRack-M6F Racks Six Raspberry Pis in 2U

Waveshare's PiRack-M6F holds six Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 boards in a 10-inch 2U rack and moves every port to the front, starting at $69.99 direct.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 18, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Pi-Ener-lite: A $35 18650 UPS for Raspberry Pi Zero
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Pi-Ener-lite: A $35 18650 UPS for Raspberry Pi Zero

The Pi-Ener-lite adds an 18650 battery backup, real-time clock, and fuel gauge to a Raspberry Pi Zero for $35 while leaving the GPIO header free.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 17, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi Power Guide: PSU, PoE, and UPS Options
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Raspberry Pi Power Guide: PSU, PoE, and UPS Options

A practical Raspberry Pi power guide covering the 27W USB-C PD supply, the 600mA USB limit, PoE+ HATs, battery UPS boards, and solar deployments.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 17, 20269 min read
Cover illustration for Wi-Fi Sensing Turns an ESP32 and Pi Into a Motion Radar
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Wi-Fi Sensing Turns an ESP32 and Pi Into a Motion Radar

WifiSense-Pi pairs an ESP32-S3 sampling 100 times a second with a Raspberry Pi 4 to detect people through walls — and the code is now open source.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 17, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for PiShot Makes a Pocket Camera From a Raspberry Pi Zero
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PiShot Makes a Pocket Camera From a Raspberry Pi Zero

PiShot is an open-source 3D-printed camera built on a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, Camera Module 3, an ST7789 rear display, and a single 18650 cell.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 12, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for RAK7392 Turns a Raspberry Pi CM5 Into an Edge Router
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RAK7392 Turns a Raspberry Pi CM5 Into an Edge Router

RAKwireless' $535 WisGate Connect Router RAK7392 pairs a Raspberry Pi CM4 or CM5 with four Ethernet ports and over 4Gbps combined throughput.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 11, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi vs Mini PC: Picking a 2026 Home Server
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Raspberry Pi vs Mini PC: Picking a 2026 Home Server

Memory prices reshaped this choice in 2026. Here is how a Raspberry Pi 5 and a 6W mini PC compare on cost, power, and what they can actually run.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 11, 20269 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi Bird Logger Identifies 11,000 Species
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Raspberry Pi Bird Logger Identifies 11,000 Species

A Raspberry Pi and a USB microphone run BirdNET to identify over 11,000 bird species by sound, then render the day's visitors as an e-ink collage.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 10, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for VIEWE 7.6-Inch Square HDMI Touch Displays Start at $85
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VIEWE 7.6-Inch Square HDMI Touch Displays Start at $85

VIEWE's 7.6-inch square HDMI panels reach 1200x1200 at 1,000 nits and plug into a Raspberry Pi or Jetson over mini HDMI, starting at $85.29.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitAug 4, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for CirkitScape Top HAT Combines Four Pi Add-Ons in One
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CirkitScape Top HAT Combines Four Pi Add-Ons in One

The $45 CirkitScape Top HAT adds 16 GPIOs, a 3-channel ADC, RS-485, and four USB ports to a Raspberry Pi using only standard Python libraries.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 26, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi AI Projects Book Covers Local LLMs for £9
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Raspberry Pi AI Projects Book Covers Local LLMs for £9

Raspberry Pi Press's new AI Projects book covers local LLMs, vision and speech across Pi 5, Pi Zero 2 W and Pico, at an intro price of £8.99.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 21, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Edge AI Dev Boards With NPUs: A 2026 Buyer's Guide
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Edge AI Dev Boards With NPUs: A 2026 Buyer's Guide

Compare five edge AI dev boards from 4 to 67 TOPS and $70 to $249, and see why NPU toolchain maturity, not the TOPS number, decides what runs.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 20, 20268 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi LoRa Boards: A Long-Range Radio Guide
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Raspberry Pi LoRa Boards: A Long-Range Radio Guide

A buyer's guide to Raspberry Pi LoRa boards and long-range 4G HATs, from a 19 USD Waveshare SX1262 node module to a 149 euros LoRaWAN concentrator.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 19, 20268 min read
Cover illustration for Pico W Becomes a Driverless USB Wi-Fi Adapter for $6
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Pico W Becomes a Driverless USB Wi-Fi Adapter for $6

An open-source firmware turns the $6 Raspberry Pi Pico W into a USB Wi-Fi adapter that needs no drivers on Linux, macOS, Windows, or mobile.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 16, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Forgix Board Pairs an RP2354 MCU With an FPGA for $50
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Forgix Board Pairs an RP2354 MCU With an FPGA for $50

The $50 Forgix board pairs a Raspberry Pi RP2354 MCU with an Efinix Trion T8 FPGA in a 36x18mm Teensy footprint, with open KiCad design files.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 15, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi Single Pair Ethernet HAT Adds T1S/T1L
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Raspberry Pi Single Pair Ethernet HAT Adds T1S/T1L

Brechel Electronic's new Raspberry Pi HAT+ boards add 10BASE-T1S and 10BASE-T1L Single Pair Ethernet from €95, with a one-click Linux driver installer.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 14, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for KKSB Rack Panels Tidy Your Raspberry Pi Cluster
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KKSB Rack Panels Tidy Your Raspberry Pi Cluster

KKSB's new 10-inch and 19-inch rack panels mount up to 10 Raspberry Pis per shelf, with room for HATs and active coolers in a homelab rack.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 11, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for This Kubernetes Homelab Hides Modern Compute Inside Retro Linksys Cases
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This Kubernetes Homelab Hides Modern Compute Inside Retro Linksys Cases

Justin Garrison retrofitted a modern Raspberry Pi and mini-PC Kubernetes cluster into vintage early-2000s Linksys router cases — a nostalgic, fully working homelab.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJul 8, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Coolest Projects 2026 Showcases 15,000+ Young Creators Worldwide
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Coolest Projects 2026 Showcases 15,000+ Young Creators Worldwide

The Raspberry Pi Foundation's Coolest Projects 2026 online showcase celebrated 15,000+ young creators and 4,500+ builds, livestreamed worldwide on June 24, 2026.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 26, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Armbian Imager 2.0 Flashes 338 SBCs With One-Click Custom Profiles
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Armbian Imager 2.0 Flashes 338 SBCs With One-Click Custom Profiles

Armbian Imager 2.0 supports 338 single-board computers from 64 vendors and pre-bakes Wi-Fi, SSH, and user settings so your SBC boots ready to use.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 14, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Sixfab's AI HAT+ Adds 25 TOPS of DEEPX Edge AI to the Raspberry Pi 5
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Sixfab's AI HAT+ Adds 25 TOPS of DEEPX Edge AI to the Raspberry Pi 5

Sixfab's new AI HAT+ solders a DEEPX DX-M1 NPU onto a Raspberry Pi 5 board, delivering up to 25 TOPS of low-power vision AI from $63 — no M.2 module needed.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitJun 8, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for DFRobot's 6.67-Inch Flexible AMOLED Display Brings Bendable Screens to Raspberry Pi
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DFRobot's 6.67-Inch Flexible AMOLED Display Brings Bendable Screens to Raspberry Pi

DFRobot's new 6.67-inch flexible AMOLED display, announced May 8, 2026, brings 2400×1080 bendable screens to Raspberry Pi, LattePanda, and any HDMI-capable SBC for $199.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMay 10, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Waveshare PocketTerm35: Full-Keyboard Linux Terminal Powered by Raspberry Pi 4/5
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Waveshare PocketTerm35: Full-Keyboard Linux Terminal Powered by Raspberry Pi 4/5

Waveshare's PocketTerm35 fits Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 into a palm-sized terminal with a 67-key keyboard, 3.5-inch touchscreen, gaming controls, and a 5,000 mAh battery pack.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 18, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 Opens the Door to Generative AI at the Maker Workbench
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Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 Opens the Door to Generative AI at the Maker Workbench

The Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 packs 40 TOPS of on-device AI acceleration into the Pi 5 ecosystem, enabling local LLMs, vision models, and generative micro-apps.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 11, 20265 min read
Cover illustration for Radxa Taco V1.61 Turns the Raspberry Pi CM5 Into a Five-Drive NAS for Around $65
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Radxa Taco V1.61 Turns the Raspberry Pi CM5 Into a Five-Drive NAS for Around $65

Radxa's updated Taco V1.61 carrier board for the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 packs five SATA ports, dual Ethernet, NVMe, and RAID support into a 114×85mm footprint.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 9, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Velxio Lets You Simulate Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and ESP32 Boards in Your Browser
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Velxio Lets You Simulate Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and ESP32 Boards in Your Browser

Velxio is a self-hostable, open-source board emulator supporting 19 real boards across five CPU architectures — no hardware required, runs fully in-browser via Docker.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 9, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Sentinel Core Puts a PCIe x16 Slot on Your Raspberry Pi CM5
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Sentinel Core Puts a PCIe x16 Slot on Your Raspberry Pi CM5

Sanctuary Systems launched the Sentinel Core on Crowd Supply — a $129 open-hardware mini-ITX carrier board that gives the CM5 a full-size PCIe x16 expansion slot.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitApr 9, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for Raspberry Pi Prices Are Closing In on Mini PCs as the Global DRAM Shortage Squeezes the Market
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Raspberry Pi Prices Are Closing In on Mini PCs as the Global DRAM Shortage Squeezes the Market

A worldwide memory shortage is pushing Raspberry Pi kit prices uncomfortably close to budget mini PCs, forcing hobbyists to rethink their build strategies.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 7, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for A Maker Built a Stunning 1970s Terminal Replica With a Raspberry Pi and a 3D Printer
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A Maker Built a Stunning 1970s Terminal Replica With a Raspberry Pi and a 3D Printer

David Green's ADM-3A terminal replica pairs a 3D-printed vintage enclosure with a Raspberry Pi 3 to recreate the dawn of interactive computing for under $100.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 3, 20264 min read
Cover illustration for This Arduino and Raspberry Pi Duo Powers a Two-Factor Entry System for a Community Hackerspace
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This Arduino and Raspberry Pi Duo Powers a Two-Factor Entry System for a Community Hackerspace

A maker built a reliable two-factor access control system pairing an Arduino Nano for hardware control with a Raspberry Pi authentication backend.

Alex Circuit
Alex CircuitMar 3, 20264 min read