Raspberry Pi

A Raspberry Pi went down the runway at New York Fashion Week?! It's a koi pond guitar by an excellent maker/engineer known as Evette's Niche. https://lnkd.in/eePTk7vr

Our May edition is live, and things are hotting up. Raspberry Pi founder and CEO Eben Upton spoke to the BBC this month, warning that overestimating AI's ability to replace tech workers could put people off pursuing careers in computing and hurt the wider economy. It is a timely and important message, and one worth sharing widely. Also this month, Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan made headlines at AI Engineer Singapore after sharing the Raspberry Pi-powered agentic AI tool he built himself. Raspberry Pi trialled a smarter way to search its documentation. EDATEC-Industrial Raspberry Pi showed what Compute Module 5 can do on a demanding factory floor. Hellbender Inc. closed a $12.5 million seed round. And we launched a podcast. Over the coming months, we'll be attending the International Drone Show in Odense, Hardware Pioneers Max in London, and Automate in Chicago. Click the links in the newsletter to learn more or get in touch. Make sure to subscribe so future editions land straight in your feed.

🚀 .NET nanoFramework now supports Raspberry Pi Pico & Pico W We’re excited to announce official support for the Raspberry Pi RP2040 family, including: ✅ Raspberry Pi Pico ✅ Raspberry Pi Pico W (Wi‑Fi) This new port is built on ChibiOS, continuing to use a robust RTOS foundation for .NET nanoFramework on RP2040. 🔹 Write C# for microcontrollers and reuse code cross devices 🔹 Benefit from modern .NET APIs 🔹 Run on one of the most popular MCU platforms This is another step toward making .NET a first‑class citizen in embedded development, from makers to industrial solutions. 🙌 Huge thanks to the nanoFramework community, contributors, and the Raspberry Pi Foundation for their support! 👉 How to flash your Pico: https://lnkd.in/eVeVdBAB 🔗 Get started with .NET nanoFramework: https://lnkd.in/ePDJP7_B 👉 Documentation for supported features: https://lnkd.in/exjkbbKU 👉 ChibiOS: https://www.chibios.org/ 👉 Raspberry Pi Pico: https://lnkd.in/ekztqSzQ #dotnet #nanoframework #raspberrypi #rp2040 #embedded #iot #chibios #csharp

What happens when you pair the Raspberry Pi AI Camera with a large language model? You get a vision-language model running entirely at the edge. No video streamed to the cloud, no GDPR headache. Just structured on-device inference passed to an LLM, which turns it into plain-English insights. The use cases are genuinely compelling: - A smart home observer that tells you who (or what) is in the room - A retail shelf monitor flagging low stock in natural language - A factory floor watcher that alerts you if a worker is not wearing a high-vis Full tutorial here: https://lnkd.in/eRMyTUJD #RaspberryPi #EdgeAI #LLM #MachineLearning #ComputerVision #AICamera #Manufacturing #Automation

Is your product powered by a Raspberry Pi? Automate Show 2026 is just around the corner, and we're looking to connect with exhibitors who are showcasing products built on Raspberry Pi technology. If you're bringing something to the show floor that runs on Pi, we'd love to hear from you, whether it's a robotics system, an industrial HMI, an edge AI device, or anything in between. Fill in the quick form below and let's make sure we connect at the event: 👉 https://lnkd.in/eZGqzvkF Drop a comment or send me a message too. Always happy to chat about what people are building! #RaspberryPi #Automate2026 #Automation #EdgeComputing #EmbeddedSystems #Manufacturing

𝗕𝗕𝗖 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗴 𝗕𝗼𝘀𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 #𝟯𝟴 𝗥𝗮𝘀𝗽𝗯𝗲𝗿𝗿𝘆 𝗣𝗶 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿: 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗢𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗔𝗜 𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗗𝗼 "Eben Upton, founder and chief executive of Raspberry Pi, joins the Big Boss Interview to discuss artificial intelligence, British manufacturing, semiconductors and why he believes there is a growing tendency to overestimate what AI tools can currently do. AI tools are “genuinely incredible”, Upton says, and he uses them regularly himself. But he warns against assuming they remove the need for human judgment, engineering skill or technical understanding." Listen now: https://lnkd.in/deBNRcC6

Singapore's Minister for Foreign Affairs Dr Vivian Balakrishnan took to the stage at AI Engineer Singapore to share the Raspberry Pi-powered agentic AI tool he built himself, because: “You cannot govern a technology you have only been briefed on.” Dr Balakrishnan explained that his most daily used agent is running off a Raspberry Pi and attests to its usefulness: "I can honestly tell you I have not dared to switch it off." Watch now: https://lnkd.in/gkrBvQhZ

"If your project has outgrown off-the-shelf development boards, Compute Module 5 gives you far more control over hardware design and deployment."

Congratulations to our design partner Hellbender Inc. on closing a round of funding and the launch of their pi based products!