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SOUTHMINSTER, ESSEX, UNITED KINGDOM, February 11, 2021 /EINPresswire.com/ Order Efficiency Ltd, a British company that is leading the development of Project Health Control (PHC) a project management methodology, is now working with Raspberry Pi products to bring low cost computer solutions to schools in UK through the PHC Consortium TROM Computers project.
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A new update to Raspberry Pi OS, previously known as Raspbian, has put open-source fans on edge. Why? The new OS is pinging Microsoft servers every time the user updates their apps or the OS itself.
The brouhaha is a bit of a tempest in a teapot, because the new OS simply pings repositories that hold Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code editor, a simplified IDE that has risen to become a formidable tool in the programmer’s arsenal and, presumably, a solid educational tool.
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Joey Castillo developer of the Open Book Project has this week announced that the next DIY Open Book DIY eReader will be powered by the new Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller launched last month. The Open Book Project provides all the instruction you need to be able to build your very own DIY eReader, albeit with 114 different components. Although the next version will be slightly more accessible using 35 to 45 parts depending on the features you would like to include. The Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller costs just $4 and is powered by the Foundations RP2040 microcontroller featuring a 133 MHz dual-core AQM Cortex-M0+ processor, and was designed in-house by the Raspberry Pi Foundation.
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If you are interested in adding a reset button to your Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller, you will be pleased to know that the official Raspberry Pi Foundation has published a quick tutorial detailing how this can be done very easily.As well as adding a reset button you also get debugger support, which is invaluable while developing, and involves adding just three more wires, if you connect your Pico to a Raspberry Pi 4 mini PC.
“We’ve tried to make it as easy as possible for you to load your code onto your new Raspberry Pi Pico: press and hold the BOOTSEL button, plug your Pico into your computer, and it’ll mount as a mass storage volume. Then just drag and drop a UF2 file onto the board. However, not everybody is keen to keep unplugging their micro USB cable every time they want to upload a UF2 onto the board. Don’t worry there’s more than one way around that problem.
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The Raspberry Pi 4 equipped with 8GB of RAM is the top end of this popular small-board computer. A 64-bit version of Raspberry Pi OS and the ability to boot from storage devices connected over USB are also just around the corner.
When the fourth generation of the Raspberry Pi was presented in June 2019, the Raspberry Pi Foundation fulfilled almost all the wishes of its loyal fans. With directly wired Gigabit Ethernet, fast USB 3.0 ports, and two monitor connections, the Raspberry Pi had finally come of age [1]. Technical details, such as the new BCM2711 system on a chip (SoC), along with the four Cortex A72 cores and up to 4GB of RAM were nearly forgotten.