Articles Tagged “Raspberry Pi 5”
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Raspberry Pi Net Zero: How Pi Towers Swapped Gas for Pis
Raspberry Pi replaced a £150,000 building system with a £7,800 Pi-based one at Pi Towers, cut gas entirely in June 2026, and targets net zero in 2027.
Raspberry Pi 5 Cluster Runs Qwen3-30B at 15 Tokens a Second
Four 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 boards ran Qwen3-30B-A3B at 15.1 tokens per second on CPU alone, a 16% gain over the prior record with distributed-llama.
Home Assistant Hardware Guide: Green vs Pi 5 vs Mini PC
Choosing Home Assistant hardware in 2026? Compare the $199 Home Assistant Green, Raspberry Pi 5 and N150 mini PCs, plus Zigbee, Thread and Z-Wave radios.
A Solar Raspberry Pi 5 Counts Traffic on Just 5.6 Watts
A student-built Raspberry Pi 5 runs YOLOv8 Nano on solar power, averaging 5.6W and counting vehicles with 96.6% accuracy. No AI accelerator required.
Needle 2 Brings 14MB Function-Calling AI to Raspberry Pi 5
Needle 2 is a 14MB function-calling model that turns plain English into Raspberry Pi 5 actions in about 80ms on the CPU alone, with no AI HAT needed.
BrainChip AKD1500 M.2 Card Brings Neuromorphic AI to Pi 5
BrainChip's AKD1500 cards start at $99 and deliver 800 GOPS under 300 mW, with a $129 M.2 version that fits a Raspberry Pi 5 through an M.2 HAT.
WLV-01 Puts Swappable Sensors on a Raspberry Pi 5
The WLV-01 is a hackable Raspberry Pi 5 camera with swappable color and mono sensors up to Micro Four Thirds, with kits starting around $259.
Raspberry Pi 5 GMSL2 Camera HAT Reaches 10 Meters
BE-IIS built a dual GMSL2 camera HAT for the Raspberry Pi 5 that runs two IMX708 sensors over 10-metre coax, priced at $229 plus $79 per serializer.
Firehat HAT Brings FireWire DV Capture to Raspberry Pi
The $79 Firehat is an open-source FireWire HAT that digitizes MiniDV, Digital8 and HDV tapes straight from a Raspberry Pi 5, with no laptop needed.
Google Chrome on Raspberry Pi 5: What It Adds Over Chromium
Google Chrome now ships an official arm64 Linux build. On a Raspberry Pi 5 it matches Chromium at 30 FPS in WebGL but adds sync and Widevine DRM.
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.
Gemma Translator: Offline AI Translation on a Pi 5
A Raspberry Pi 5 runs a full speech-to-speech interpreter offline using Gemma 4 E2B and LiteRT, at 9 tokens per second and 1,432 MB peak memory.
NightRun Boots a Local LLM on a Pi 5 With No OS
NightRun is a Rust UEFI application that boots straight into a local LLM on Raspberry Pi 5 and x86 PCs, skipping the operating system entirely.
Raspberry Pi Storage Guide: microSD vs eMMC vs NVMe
A practical 2026 guide to SBC storage: NVMe hits 800+ MB/s random reads versus 42 MB/s on microSD. Pick the right one for your Raspberry Pi build.
Raspberry Pi 5 Becomes an 8-Channel USB Sound Card With Optical Out
A clever open-source project turns a Raspberry Pi 5 into an 8-channel USB sound card with real TOSLINK optical output generated from a single blinking GPIO pin.
QuadRF: A Raspberry Pi 5 4x4 MIMO SDR RF Camera Hits Crowd Supply
QuadRF is a Raspberry Pi 5 4x4 MIMO software-defined radio tile that renders a live 30fps RF overlay. Open-source SDR beamforming from $499.
Sixfab AI HAT+ Brings a DEEPX NPU and Local Edge AI to the Raspberry Pi 5
Sixfab and DEEPX launched an AI HAT+ on June 26, 2026 that drops a DX-M1 NPU onto the Raspberry Pi 5 — up to 25 TOPS of local vision AI from $63.
QuadRF Turns a Raspberry Pi 5 Into a Real-Time RF Signal Visualizer
QuadRF is a 4x4 MIMO software-defined radio tile for the Raspberry Pi 5 that renders invisible radio signals as a live augmented-reality overlay — a remarkable maker tool launched June 24, 2026.
Raspberry Pi OS Moves to the Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel With a Fresher Desktop
The June 18 Raspberry Pi OS update jumps to the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel and LabWC 0.9.7, adding new drivers, refreshed icons, and the latest Pi firmware.
CrankGPT Runs Offline AI on a Raspberry Pi 5 You Power by Hand
A maker project called CrankGPT runs a fully offline AI voice assistant on a Raspberry Pi 5 powered entirely by a hand crank, with the crank getting harder as the model thinks.
Sixfab AI HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5: 25 TOPS NPU From $63
The Sixfab AI HAT+ for Raspberry Pi 5 adds a DEEPX DX-M1 NPU over PCIe: up to 25 TOPS, 30+ FPS YOLOv8n, under 3W, from $63. Here's the price-to-performance.
Pi Slate Cyberdeck Lands — A Raspberry Pi 5 Handheld With a Touchscreen, RGB Keyboard, and Modular HATs
Carbon Computers' Pi Slate brings the Raspberry Pi 5 into a compact handheld cyberdeck on May 11, 2026 — a 5-inch touchscreen, backlit keyboard, modular HAT support, and a 10,000 mAh battery.
Pironman 5 Pro Max: Raspberry Pi 5 Tower PC With Touchscreen and Hailo AI
SunFounder's Pironman 5 Pro Max packs a 4.3-inch touchscreen, dual NVMe RAID, Hailo-8L AI slot, camera, and speakers into a $145 Raspberry Pi 5 tower case — reviewed April 18.
DRAM Surge Pushes Raspberry Pi and Mini PC Prices to Parity — Used Hardware Becomes 2026's Best Homelab Strategy
A 171% DRAM price spike erases the Pi's cost advantage over Intel N100 mini PCs, with Jeff Geerling and homelab experts recommending used corporate hardware as the smart play.
The Pironman 5 Pro Max Transforms a Raspberry Pi 5 Into a Full Tower PC With a Touchscreen, Camera, and AI Accelerator Slot
SunFounder's $146 enclosure adds a 4.3-inch touchscreen, 5MP camera, dual speakers, dual NVMe RAID slots, and Hailo AI accelerator support to the Raspberry Pi 5.
An Nvidia GPU Now Runs AI Inference on a Raspberry Pi 5 at 121 Tokens Per Second
Community patches enable Nvidia GPU compute on the Pi 5 via PCIe, running a 3B language model at 121 tok/s with llama.cpp and Vulkan acceleration.