[Ken Olsen] needed a bunch of analog inputs for his model railroad project. He wanted to use the Raspberry Pi board, but alas there are no analog inputs available on the GPIO header. But there is SPI.

The Raspberry Pi is a very capable device whose hardware has been pushed to the limit in all sorts of interesting ways. But even the most ingenious of experimenters have to agree on one point; it ...

Makers, developers and hobbyists that enjoy building projects using the awesome Raspberry Pi mini PC may be interested in a new digital and analog expansion board called the PIIO. The PIIO has been ...

A Raspberry Pi 5 has the ability to capture video via attached cameras and access the Internet using wired and wireless protocols, all while driving a pair of personal computer displays. However, if ...

Anyone creating autonomous systems using the Raspberry Pi range of mini PCs might be interested in the new Multi-iO HAT specifically designed for Raspberry Pi automation. Compatible with all Raspberry ...

The Raspberry Pi has become an extremely popular development platform (see “Arduino, Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone?”). It can run Linux and hooks up to displays and Ethernet networks. The latest ...

PIC, Arduino, and Raspberry Pi: If you can work with these three types of systems, then you can connect with just about anything Microcontrollers (MCUs) can be very handy, but without the ability to ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. The Raspberry Pi series of single-board computers is, for a certain kind of builder and tinkerer, a bit of a dream product. Depending on ...

The $35 Raspberry Pi 2 Model B has dimensions roughly similar to those of a credit card. Though it appears to be little more than a chunk of PCB, the Raspberry Pi 2 actually contains the framework for ...