While the Raspberry Pi has very good support for an I2C bus, a lot of very cool chips – including the in system programmer for just about every ATtiny and ATmega microcontroller – use an SPI bus.

We’ve seen a ton of projects that interface hardware with the Raspberry Pi. But they usually depend on bit-banging. That means they toggle the pins in software to match a specific protocol. The thing ...

When developing projects that will require portability, and connectivity, your first instinct is to grab a Raspberry Pi. And why not? This single-board computer (SBC), which has become especially ...

News of a new single-board computer from the Raspberry Pi Foundation is always exciting, and the Raspberry Pi 5 ($80 as tested) is unquestionably the most hype-worthy model yet. This revision to the ...

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