Best of Raspberry Pi — August 2024

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    Build your own Ad Blocking tool for your home using Pi-Hole.

    Pi-Hole is a DNS sinkhole designed to block advertisements and trackers on your home network, enhancing your online privacy. By routing DNS traffic through Pi-Hole, domains associated with ads and telemetry are blocked, providing an ad-free browsing experience. The post details the installation of Pi-Hole on a home server using Docker and Portainer, and explains how to configure your home router to use Pi-Hole. It also highlights the primary benefits and a few downsides of using Pi-Hole.

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    CrowView Note: A Laptop that isn’t a Laptop – It’s Way More Useful

    The CrowView Note is a versatile and portable monitor housed in a laptop shell, designed to work with devices like the Raspberry Pi 5, Android smartphones, and mini PCs via USB Type-C or HDMI. It offers a 14.1-inch screen, full-size keyboard, and battery power to connected devices, making setup and use simpler and more streamlined than traditional methods. While the CrowView Note is geared towards tech enthusiasts, its design considerations and relatively low cost make it an appealing, albeit niche, gadget.

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    This Week in Self-Hosted (9 August 2024)

    This week's self-hosted updates include the release of the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 microcontroller board, TriliumNext's first stable release, and Frigate NVR's v0.14 update with a UI overhaul. There's also news about ICANN reserving .internal as a private TLD and several projects adopting the new Fair Source licensing model. The spotlight features Zipline, a versatile file upload and sharing server that integrates with ShareX and supports Docker or bare-metal installation.

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    Avatar of jeffgeerlingJeff Geerling·2y

    New 2GB Pi 5 has 33% smaller die, 30% idle power savings

    Raspberry Pi released a 2GB Pi 5 for $50, featuring a new BCM2712 D0 chip stepping which is 33% smaller and offers around 30% better idle power efficiency compared to older versions. Despite having less RAM, the new model shows significant improvements in chip size and power consumption. Overclocking tests reveal stability issues above 3.5 GHz, and direct die cooling presents marginal gains. Ultimately, the 2GB variant is a budget-friendly option as long as your applications don't require extensive memory.

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    Avatar of fzakariaFarid Zakaria’s Blog·2y

    NixOS, Raspberry Pi & Me

    The post details the author's experience rebranding an old Raspberry Pi 4 with NixOS. Besides discussing improvements to their home networking setup using Ubiquiti products, the author shares a minimal configuration.nix file, highlighting the challenges faced, especially with cross-compiling. The post ends with a call for feedback and improvements for cross-compiling solutions.

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    DIY Raspberry Pi 1000 turns a Raspberry Pi 5 into a PC-in-a-keyboard

    Arnov Sharma created a PC-in-a-keyboard using a Raspberry Pi 5, called the Raspberry Pi 1000. The project involves using a membrane keyboard, custom 3D printed enclosure, a cooling fan, an M.2 Hat with a 128GB NVMe SSD, and a volume knob connected to a microcontroller. The PC can boot in 6 seconds and handle tasks like Minecraft and 4K video streaming. Detailed documentation including a parts list, CAD files, and code is available on Hackster.io.

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    Avatar of davidbombalDavid Bombal·2y

    How they use Bluetooth to target your car

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    Avatar of googleossGoogle Open Source Blog·2y

    Introducing the Pigweed SDK: A modern embedded development suite

    Google introduces the Pigweed SDK, a modern suite for embedded development, especially aimed at 32-bit microcontrollers like those in the Raspberry Pi Pico family. The SDK includes extensive middleware libraries, RTOS abstractions, a powerful RPC interface, and full support for Clang/LLVM toolchains. It features Visual Studio Code integration, GitHub Actions support, and a Bazel-based build system. The new release enhances development, debugging, and testing processes, aiming to reduce maintenance and debugging overheads. Official support for the new Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (RP2350) is also included, along with guides and sample applications to help developers get started quickly.

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