Raspberry Pi
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A small single-board computer often used as a low-cost controller or gateway.
Why it's here
Placed in Trial: 11 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by product launches, with 2 in the last 30 days. Confidence 55%.
Evidence (11)
- 7Hacker News·10/1/2026researchStudy finds connected vehicles and apps transmit personal data to third parties
A research study examined 21 U.S. market vehicles and 30 companion mobile apps to map what personal data they transmit, who receives it, and how manufacturers respond. The work found data flows from vehicles and apps to first- and third-party servers, including cases where consumer data can be shared or sold after leaving the device. The researchers used controlled vehicle testing, Wi‑Fi packet capture with a Raspberry Pi access point, a Faraday tent to block cellular signals, and iPhone-based app interception with mitmproxy.
- 3Hacker News·9/21/2026product_launchRaspberry Pi says RAM chips will not be user-swappable
Raspberry Pi has responded to questions about changing memory chips, indicating that RAM packages are not intended to be swapped by users. The discussion centers on hardware design choices for its boards rather than a broader platform or software change.
- 7Hacker News·9/1/2026product_launchNori Robotics launches a low-cost humanoid development robot
Nori Robotics introduced a $1,688 bimanual mobile robot designed for robotics developers and researchers. The system includes 19 degrees of freedom, onboard safety and SLAM on a Raspberry Pi 5, an open SDK, and a browser-based simulator, with the company emphasizing manufacturability and repairability.
- 4Hacker News·8/21/2026researchPhotoshop Runs on a 60p Raspberry Pi Chip
A hobbyist demonstrated Adobe Photoshop running on an emulated classic Apple Macintosh on a Raspberry Pi RP2350 chip costing about £0.60. The post highlights how very low-cost hardware can emulate older computers and run legacy software such as WordPerfect, while also exploring ideas for simpler, lower-power personal computing.
- 7Hacker News·8/10/2026model_releaseNeedle 2: a 14MB agentic LLM for edge devices
Cactus released Needle 2, a compact 14MB agentic LLM designed for tool use, structured extraction, and device control on phones, wearables, smart home devices, microcontrollers, and small robots. The model uses 45M parameters at 2-bit compression, claims very high token throughput on edge hardware, and can be fine-tuned locally with a Python package and automated data generation pipeline.
- 5Hacker News·8/2/2026open_sourceRISC OS Open marks 20 years of open development
RISC OS Open reflects on two decades since its 2006 founding, when it began opening up the proprietary RISC OS codebase to community participation. The post highlights major milestones including public source releases, stable RISC OS 5 updates, Raspberry Pi support, the Apache 2.0 relicensing, and the move to broader open collaboration.
- 5Hacker News·7/30/2026product_launchgpiozero flow UI turns GPIO device logic into visual streams
The author describes the evolution of gpiozero, a Python library for Raspberry Pi that models GPIO control around devices and value streams instead of raw pins. A new web-based simulator and visual editor now lets users drag devices onto a canvas, connect them with flows, and generate equivalent Python code, with plans to extend it toward remote Pi GPIO control.
- 4Hacker News·7/28/2026product_launchReFrame: an open-source ePaper camera
ReFrame is an experimental camera that uses a color ePaper display to show one photo at a time, with each image taking about 15 seconds to fully render. The project is open source and built from off-the-shelf parts, including a Raspberry Pi Zero, Pi Camera 3, and a 4-inch E Ink Spectra 6 display.
- 6Hacker News·7/19/2026open_sourceHN: Open-source bowling alley control system built with ESP32s
A bowling alley owner describes replacing a proprietary lane-scoring and control setup costing tens of thousands of dollars with a custom system built from ESP32 microcontrollers. The prototype uses ESPNow, RS485 fallback, a Raspberry Pi lane computer, and Redis to handle sensor events, relay control, and UI updates, with plans to open source the hardware, firmware, and software stack.
- 3Hacker News·7/19/2026open_sourceRebuilding a Raspberry Pi home server after microSD failure
The author describes a Raspberry Pi 4B home server that became unbootable after a likely failed microSD card, worsened by a recent power outage. They rebuilt the setup with a focus on reducing writes to the SD card, adding backups and redundancy, and moving volatile data to RAM-based storage and zram swap under NixOS.
- 6Hacker News·7/10/2026product_launchQuadRF phased-array radio spots drones and Wi‑Fi through walls
QuadRF is a phased-array radio system built around a Raspberry Pi 5 and an FPGA board, designed for advanced RF signal processing, beamforming, and visualization. In testing, it could detect drones in flight and identify Wi‑Fi signals through walls in the 4.9-6 GHz range, while also serving as a platform for SDR analysis and radio experimentation.