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Ubuntu MATE on Raspberry Pi: Installation, Desktop Features and Performance
Install Ubuntu MATE by adding its desktop package to Ubuntu Server; expect familiar tools, a large download and modest performance on suppor...
LoRaWAN Smart Metering Passes 30 Million Devices as European Utility Demand Grows
More than 30 million meters use LoRaWAN worldwide, while European tender activity and large water deployments point to growing utility adopt...
Renesas Xplore Developer Hub Connects RA MCU Boards, Software and Cloud Tools
Renesas brings low-cost RA MCU boards, more than 100 software modules and guided development into its Renesas 365 cloud workspace.
17 Raspberry Pi Shortcuts for Faster Setup, File Access and Maintenance
Terminal shortcuts, desktop settings, reusable scripts and SSH habits can cut routine Raspberry Pi setup and maintenance time.
Hackster.io's Emotion in Motion Contest Asks Machines to Read People
Hackster.io's Emotion in Motion contest offers 500 Arduino UNO R4 WiFi boards and a $14,500 prize pool for projects where machines respond t...
Installing Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 on a Raspberry Pi: Flashing, First Boot and Setup
Ubuntu Desktop 26.04 installs through Raspberry Pi Imager on a Pi 4-class board or newer with at least 4GB of RAM. Here's the flash, first-b...
Lattice Prompt 1.1 Brings AI Assistance to FPGA Design and Timing Closure
Lattice Prompt 1.1 connects preferred AI assistants to FPGA tools, with company examples spanning processor design, code porting and timing...
Engineering Jobs for 2076: The Roles That Don't Exist Yet
For National Engineering Day 2026, the Royal Academy of Engineering asks what jobs will exist in 2076. Astro Pi's Geraint Ballinger imagines...
Raspberry Pi 5 16GB at $385: Who Actually Needs That Much RAM
A 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 now lists at $385 bare, versus $120 at launch. Here's where extra RAM pays off and where 8GB or a second Pi wins.
Running Raspberry Pi OS in a VM: VirtualBox, QEMU and VMware Compared
VirtualBox, QEMU and VMware Workstation can each run Raspberry Pi OS on a Windows, Linux or macOS PC. Each has different setup steps and dis...
Install and Configure MagicMirror on Raspberry Pi: Modules, Remote Access and Autostart
Set up MagicMirror on Raspberry Pi OS, edit its dashboard and weather settings, view it remotely, launch it at boot and add community module...
Running PhotoCraft, a Photoshop Clone, on a Raspberry Pi
Hosting the open-source PhotoCraft editor on a Pi turns it into a LAN image-editing server. Layer masks, styles and clone stamp work; font f...
Allegro's 48V PMIC and Position Sensors Target Humanoid Robot Joints and Hands
Allegro's new 48V power IC and sensor lineup aims at humanoid robot joints and hands, with a claimed roughly 50% cut in power-stage footprin...
Nine Subscriptions a Raspberry Pi Can Replace With Self-Hosted Software
Nine recurring fees a Raspberry Pi can cover with self-hosted software, from game streaming and PDF editing to landlines and photo backup.
From a Forgotten Micro-PC to a Chicago Office Retro Game Night
A stray micro-PC running Batocera Linux and 2,750 retro games turned into a team game night at DMC's Chicago office.
Parrot OS on Raspberry Pi: Where It Fits Next to Kali
Parrot OS is a Debian-based distro with a privacy-leaning toolset that runs on Raspberry Pi 3B, 4B, 400 and 5. Here's how it differs from Ka...
Choosing a Raspberry Pi Browser: Speed, RAM and Sync Trade-offs
Chromium suits most Pi users, but Brave or Firefox make sense when you need sync. Benchmarks show RAM costs vary widely across five browsers...
Algorized and ZHAW Study Sensor Fusion for Human-Aware Collaborative Robots
A two-year study will combine radar, Wi-Fi and optical sensing to estimate human position and movement for robot controllers in under 100 ms...
Synaptics SR200 Pairs Torq and Google's Open Coral NPU for Battery-Powered Edge AI
Synaptics' SR200 xMCU series combines its Torq T2 NPU with Google Research's open-source RISC-V Coral NPU for low-power edge AI in wearables...
Nine Raspberry Pi Projects for Learning Linux, Python and Networking
Nine Raspberry Pi builds, from a Samba NAS to a Docker host and a sensor-driven robot, with difficulty ratings and time estimates for each.
Mounting USB Drives on Raspberry Pi: Desktop, Command Line and fstab
Raspberry Pi OS Desktop usually mounts USB drives on its own. Minimal systems need a manual mount, or a UUID entry in /etc/fstab to mount at...