Hacker News with Generative AI: Raspberry Pi

Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink (sambroner.com)
I finally built a Raspberry Pi project my wife loves: an e-ink train and weather tracker! If you want to build one yourself, the Github & instructions are here.
DIY PTP Grandmaster Clock with a Raspberry Pi (jeffgeerling.com)
tl;dr: I set up an open source Time Pi project to build a stratum 1 PTP and NTP timeserver using a Raspberry Pi.
Pi Pico Rx – A crystal radio for the digital age? (readthedocs.io)
The Pi Pico Rx - may be the answer to that question. While it may not be quite as straightforward as the crystal radio, the Pi Pico Rx presents a remarkably simple solution. Armed with just a Raspberry Pi Pico, an analogue switch, and an op-amp, we now have the power to construct a capable SDR receiver covering the LW, MW, and SW bands. With the ability to receive signals from halfway around the globe.
Raspberry Pi RP2350 Now Available for Purchase, Stacked Memory Variant Coming (phoronix.com)
Raspberry Pi last year announced the RP2350 second-generation micro-controller that debuted within their $5 Raspberry Pi Pico 2 single board computer. Today they announced the RP2350 micro-controller is now available to purchase for your own micro-controller needs.
Rust on the RP2350 (2024) (thejpster.org.uk)
Today sees the announcement of the latest additions to Raspberry Pi's microcontroller line-up - the RP2350 family. I've had prototype units for a while, and you can run Rust code on it today. To my knowledge this is the first ever microcontroller launch with Rust support out-of-the-box.
Raspberry Pi powers briefcase-sized PiEEG 'Bio Lab' project (tomshardware.com)
Smart talking winter cat shelter with Pi and ESP32 tech (reddit.com)
I made a smart talking winter cat shelter with extreme tech. There is a pi in there along with some esp32 sub systems (v.redd.it)
Is an Intel N100 a better value than a Raspberry Pi? (jeffgeerling.com)
About one year ago, I bought an Intel N100 mini PC (specifically the GMKtec N100 NucBox G3) and compared it to the Raspberry Pi 5 8GB.
Raspberry Pi Pico audio player (blogspot.com)
For an index to all my stories click this text.After all the proceeding stories the time has come to build a complete stand-alone audio player with the Raspberry Pi Pico. The audio quality is not Hifi but it is really good !! Good enough as a player in your mancave, bedroom or even as a portable player. I have made a permanent setup and using it to play music and podcasts.
Windows 11 Arm VMs on a Raspberry Pi, with BVM (jeffgeerling.com)
With the release of a Windows 11 for Arm ISO, it's easier than ever to get an officially-supported install of Windows on many different Arm PCs—now including a Raspberry Pi.
Progress on Intel and Nvidia GPUs on Raspberry Pi (jeffgeerling.com)
Nvidia GPUs have been running fine on Arm for a while now—I just upgraded the System76 Thelio Astra to an RTX 4080 Super and am testing it now.
Show HN: Slime OS – An open-source app launcher for RP2040 based devices (github.com/abeisgoat)
Slime OS is an app launcher for the PicoVision (and soon other RP2040 and RP2350 devices). It was originally designed for the Slimedeck Zero, a mini cyberdeck project. However I hope to expand it to other devices and form factors.
The Raspberry Pi RP2040 Gets a Surprise Speed Boost, Unlocks an Official 200MHz (hackster.io)
Raspberry Pi has released a new version of its pico-sdk software development kit for the RP2040 and RP2350 microcontroller families — and it comes with a speed boost for the RP2040, bumping its maximum rated clock speed to 200MHz.
Mt32-pi developer quits due to community harassment (github.com/dwhinham)
A work-in-progress baremetal MIDI synthesizer for the Raspberry Pi 3 or above, based on Munt, FluidSynth and Circle.
Portable drone jammer uses a Raspberry Pi tactical Software Defined Radio (tomshardware.com)
Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5 (github.com/b4rtaz)
Deepseek R1 Distill 8B Q40 on 4 x Raspberry Pi 5 8GB
uLisp: Raspberry Pi RP2350 Boards (ulisp.com)
The RP2350 processor is Raspberry Pi's successor to their RP2040 processor, and it has the following key features:
It's unlikely that there will be any further releases of mt32-pi (github.com/dwhinham)
A work-in-progress baremetal MIDI synthesizer for the Raspberry Pi 3 or above, based on Munt, FluidSynth and Circle. Turn your Raspberry Pi into a dedicated emulation of the famous multi-timbre sound module used by countless classic MS-DOS, PC-98 and Sharp X68000 games!
OpenAI's Nightmare: DeepSeek R1 on a Raspberry Pi [video] (youtube.com)
ReflectOS: A configurable and extensible smart mirror operating system (reflect-os.github.io)
The approachable, configurable, and extensible Open Source Operating System for your Raspberry Pi smart mirror project.
OpenAI's Nightmare: DeepSeek R1 on a Raspberry Pi (youtube.com)
DeepSeek R1 Runs at 200 Tokens per Second on Raspberry Pi (nextbigfuture.com)
Experimenters have had overnight tests confirming they have OPEN SOURCE DeepSeek R1 running at 200 tokens per second on a NON-INTERNET connected Raspberry Pi.
Can You Get Rich Using a Raspberry Pi to Mine Cryptocurrency? (wired.com)
In olden times, people dug holes in the ground to look for gold. They called it mining. But why is gold valuable, anyway? Well, mostly because humans decided it was valuable. Yeah, but why gold? Well, one cool thing about element 79 is that it doesn't interact with the oxygen in the air, so it stays shiny all the time. Also, it's rare enough to be a status symbol.
Build a tiny CA for your homelab with a Raspberry Pi (smallstep.com)
TL;DR In this tutorial, we're going to build a tiny, standalone, online Certificate Authority (CA) that will mint TLS certificates and is secured with a YubiKey. It will be an internal ACME server on our local network (ACME is the same protocol used by Let's Encrypt). The YubiKey will securely store the CA private keys and sign certificates, acting as a cheap alternative to a Hardware Security Module (HSM).
How I built this website on a Raspberry Pi (mirawelner.com)
As of the time of writing this, the Raspberry Pi 5 has recently been released. Some people are buying it excitedly, while others think that its value over previous models doesn't warrant the price increase. In any event, many people will be implementing various projects on their new (or old) Pis.
Raspberry Pi's RP2350 Hacking Challenge Results Announced (tomshardware.com)
Young Persons Guide to BCPL Programming on the Raspberry Pi [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)
Das Blinkenlights (rodyne.com)
Probably the only German word I know, and, quite by accident, became the title of my last hobby project, a project to give some bling to my boring local RPI-based rack server without impacting the power budget too much.
Lego Retro Radio #10334 – play your own music using a Raspberry Pi (sean.co.uk)
Discover how to play your own music on the Lego Retro Radio (10334) set by putting a Raspberry Pi computer inside. My project description includes Python code you can use to play your own music.
Who would buy a Raspberry Pi for $120? (jeffgeerling.com)
That is indeed a puzzling question, brought about by Raspberry Pi's introduction of the newest Raspberry Pi 5 model, with 16 GB of RAM.