Raspberry Pi 5 may be faster, but the Raspberry Pi Model 4B is cheaper, easier to build around, and ideal for most home lab projects.

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A Raspberry Pi computer can do a little of everything, including keeping you occupied if you need a new project (or distraction). This teeny-tiny computer not only clocks in at a low price, but could ...

Arduino is a microcontroller designed for real-time hardware control with very low power use. Raspberry Pi is a full computer that runs operating systems and handles complex tasks. Arduino excels at ...

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What’s as fast as two Raspberry Pi 4s? The brand-new Raspberry Pi 5, that’s what. And for only a $5 upcharge (with an asterisk), it’s going to the new go-to board from the British House of Fruity ...

Build a private cloud on Raspberry Pi 5 with NextCloud Snap and Tailscale, then sync files across phones and PCs without fees ...

It started as a smart home tool; now I want it to do everything.

Sometimes, you don't have direct access to the Raspberry Pi running your project. Perhaps it's installed outdoors with no display and keyboard attached. Or maybe it was squeezed into a compact chassis ...

Pick the best Raspberry Pi desktop OS for 2026, including Pi 5 and Pi 4 support, plus a 170MB Diet Pi base install.

How do you celebrate your birthday? If it is not by releasing a new tiny computer, you are clearly not celebrating right. Luckily, that is exactly what Raspberry Pi did for its 5th birthday. Now we ...

Almost uniquely among consumer grade computer manufacturers, the Raspberry Pi folks still support their earliest boards. We’re guessing that’s in part due to the much more recent Pi Zero using the ...