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You don't need a Raspberry Pi for most 'Pi projects'—here's what you can use instead

Are you looking at Raspberry Pi projects, thinking that you need a Raspberry Pi to do them? Chances are, you don’t. Here are three Raspberry Pi alternatives that are better than a Raspberry Pi in most ...
Hackaday

RS-485 Sprinkler Control: Scaling Irrigation Across The Farm

Building your own sprinkler system controller isn’t that difficult on the face of it, but what happens when your system ...

Revive Your Old Tech: Running a Local LLM on a 12-Year-Old Raspberry Pi

Discover how a 12-year-old Raspberry Pi successfully runs a local LLM using Falcon H1 Tiny and 4-bit quantization.
SlashGear

5 Unusual Raspberry Pi Projects Found In The Wild

If there's one word to describe a Raspberry Pi, it would be "versatile." This small but powerful single-board computer is designed for a wide range of DIY applications, ranging from a simple media ...
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Ancient irrigation methods outperform modern smart systems, gardeners say

Old beats new: Gardeners report traditional irrigation methods like ollas and gravity-fed systems outperform costly smart controllers in reliability and yields. Soil-specific success: Matching ...
Microsoft

AI chips are getting hotter. A microfluidics breakthrough goes straight to the silicon to cool up to three times better.

The chips that datacenters use to run the latest AI breakthroughs generate much more heat than previous generations of silicon. Anybody whose phone or laptop has overheated knows that electronics ...