Raspberry Pi 5 powers a physical chessboard that it plays on

Raspberry Pi 5 powers a physical chessboard that it plays on

Resume The Pi 5 controllable wooden chessboard shows the bot moving with magnets and tracks your moves. Equipment: Pico SKR, CoreXY solenoid, 64 Hall sensors, 5-inch LCD; Run by Stockfish, Maia3, Rodent IV, Patricia. Stores games on PGN and plans to sync Lichess/Chess.com for mirrored online play; the code has not been released yet. Playing … Read more

Cheaper Raspberry Pi competitors keep beating it on specs, but they can’t duplicate its biggest advantage

Cheaper Raspberry Pi competitors keep beating it on specs, but they can’t duplicate its biggest advantage

Despite being a Raspberry Pi user at one time, there are many pricing issues with modern RPi single board computers. First, even the latest and greatest Raspberry Pi 5’s specs are pretty dated, especially compared to the competing boards that have been popping up everywhere lately. As the RAM apocalypse continues, causing Raspberry Pi SBC … Read more

The newest ESP32 can actually run Linux, and it comes uncomfortably close to the Raspberry Pi.

The newest ESP32 can actually run Linux, and it comes uncomfortably close to the Raspberry Pi.

There is a new version of Espressif ESP32The ESP32-S31 and the same ESP32 come with a Gigabit Ethernet MAC, a USB 2.0 Hi-Speed ​​host controller, a dual-slot SD card interface, and a camera input. It’s a fairly standard set of features for a Linux single-board computer, but it’s a very strange list of things you … Read more

This DIY project turns your spare Raspberry Pi and monitor into a wall calendar

This DIY project turns your spare Raspberry Pi and monitor into a wall calendar

Resume WallCalToDo uses a Raspberry Pi 3B+ (or newer) and a secondary monitor as a wall-mounted calendar and task display. Syncs with Google Calendar and Microsoft To-Do applications; mirror changes in real time from your phone. Includes a plugin to manage accounts, change settings, enable privacy mode, and is open source on GitHub. One of … Read more