All my posts about the Raspberry Pi 2 so far!
Just a quick one this evening. Here’s a nice 3D printed enclosure for the Raspberry Pi from Paul-Louis Ageneau. It features two bays for hard drives that slide in, together with USB adapters. USB cables then connect the drives up…
Hayden James has done a great article on the various overclocking options available on the Pi 2. There are plenty of examples of configurations if you want that extra speed. Read more here.
This is perhaps the ultimate in non-issues, but it’s worth being aware of all the same. Peter Onion has found a slight flaw in the Raspberry Pi 2. One of the chips onboard (not the main processor, one of the…
EDIT/UPDATE: This issue is now resolved Simply update your Raspberry Pi to fix this issue: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade There is currently an issue with using the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi 2. The issue concerns the…
The Foundation have blogged about some advances in the field of emulation since the launch of the Raspberry Pi 2. According to them, the CPU performance of previous models of the Pi meant that only 3rd and 4th generation games…
Martin O’Hanlon, Minecraft hacker extraordinaire, wanted to see if the Pi 2’s better CPU and upgraded memory ran a Minecraft server any better than the B+. He’s documented the procedure on his blog including how to download a vanilla server (or…
For those of you who would like to read a single article about the Raspberry Pi 2 that explains all the hardware changes and all the expected software options (such as Ubuntu and the IOT version of Windows 10) as well…
For those of you out there who have the Raspberry Pi B+ and have just bought a Pi 2, you will need to update your existing microSD card on the B+ before you plug it into the Pi 2. This is accomplished…
Element14 has posted a recording of Monday’s press conference on YouTube. It’s well worth a watch, if only to see how excited Eben Upton clearly is about the “New Toy”! It answers a lot of the questions about the board that you…
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has written a Python script that tests out the capabilities of the Raspberry Pi 2’s quad-core processor by carrying out sorting operations on a massive list of words. The results are astounding. The Pi 2 clearly beats…
