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High on the list of bestsellers in Elektor’s book portfolio is Dogan Ibrahim’s latest title Raspberry Pi 3 – Basic to Advanced Projects. This book details the Raspberry Pi 3 computer and its use in various control and monitoring applications.

Wheezy, Jessie, Stretch? Huh? Pi OS’s form a complex landscape where many newcomers to this fantastic little computer may get lost, unable to see the wood for te trees. Relief has come. Released by Eltechs and freely downloadable (what did you think!), the Ultimate Guide to Raspbian and other Raspberry Pi Software is modestly presented as a “blog post”. It’s a true guide though and sure to contain information which will be interesting for both starters and seasoned Raspberry Pi (or other ARM and IoT) users, owners, developers, and even investors.

With Arduino Create, the online integrated development environment (IDE) for Arduino the user now gets direct access to popular Linux boards like the Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone and AAEON UP² as if they were Arduino boards.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation hast launched the latest version of their oh so popular minicomputer, the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+. The day chosen for this introduction can't be accidental, as March 14 is written as 3/14 in US date notation, and today marks the 30th anniversary of pi-day.

A single circuit to power a Raspberry Pi equipped with a hard disk.

Dragino is a manufacturer of IoT hardware, specialised in Linux IoT/VOIP, Arduino Yùn add-on boards and LoRa modules and gateways. One of their latest products is the LSN50 long-range LoRa sensor node, designed for outdoor use.

The Arduino and Raspberry Pi have revolutionized the field of embedded systems design. One area of widespread applicability for both devices has been motor control. But if you would like to learn more about Arduino- and Raspberry Pi-based motor control applications, a quick search on the Internet will only complicate things. You’ll find thousands of motor control projects based on these popular platforms. The problem, of course, is locating high-quality, well-tested motor control projects from reliable sources, which is hard to do because do-it-yourselfers and students are uploading new Arduino and Raspberry Pi-based projects to the Internet each day. Fortunately, Dogan Ibrahim had the foresight to write a comprehensive book on DC motor control designs featuring the Arduino platform and Raspberry Pi Zero W single-board computer (SBC).

One LimeSDR Mini from Lime Micro and one Raspberry Pi Zero have been used to create an open-source pocket-sized DVB (digital video broadcasting) transmitter, which is believed to be is the world’s smallest. Developed by Evariste Okcestbon, the open-source prototype streams live images from a Raspberry Pi camera (PiCam) and implements avc2ts, dvb2iq and limetx software to encode and transmit H.264 video on the 1.2-GHz (23 cm) amateur TV band. The boards are connected via USB, with the Raspberry Pi Zero board measuring 65 x 30 mm and the LimeSDR Mini measuring 69 x 31 mm.

Great news! Elektor is proud to announce the launch of the Dutch and French editions of MagPi magazine! MagPi magazine is written by and for the Pi community. It is aimed at enthusiastic electronicists keen to know all the latest about the world's smallest computer.

A new kit jointly created by Lime Microsystems and seeed studio is claimed to provide everything you need to get started learning SDR basics and developing IoT applications. The Grove Starter Kit for LimeSDR Mini is targeted at educational use and for beginners, and carries a price tag of $249. Besides the LimeSDR building block optimised for 433/868/915 MHz and the associate antennas, the kit also contains an array of Grove sensors and output-related boards from seeed studios. The computing power for the software defined radio (SDR) is afforded by a GrovePi+ and a Raspberry Pi (2, 3 or Zero can be used).