Raspberry Pi Geek 17

Just more than four years ago the first Raspberry Pi was released to overwhelming response. Many people had to wait for their first-generation Pi while production was ramped up to meet the demand. Now you have an entire array of Pis from which to choose, and demand is still so high that you might have to wait for your computer on backorder immediately after a new model is released. Moreover, the quad-core Raspberry Pi 3 has broadened the possibilities of what you can accomplish with the little nanocomputer.

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The Raspberry Pi 3 changes the game with its fast, 64-bit CPU and support for WiFi and Bluetooth.

The Raspberry Pi has been around for four years now, and on March 5, 2016, its birthday was celebrated with a party held in Cambridge, England. We review the history of this British nanocomputer.

Distributed compiling with distcc offloads the CPU-intensive compilation tasks from the Raspberry Pi to other computers, saving you days of time and frustration.

Historically, Linux has not had many CAD offerings. Now 3D Slash has stepped in to fill the void, and it even works well on a Raspberry Pi.

Online tracking and invasive advertising are annoying facts of life for many users. Upribox intercepts these activities and blocks them from getting to the user's end device.

A switched and programmable electrical plug lets you start the Raspberry Pi at predefined times, saving power consumption, and a little Python code keeps you independent of the manufacturer's cloud infrastructure.

Make a Raspberry Pi running RISC OS into a high-performance communication center for sending and receiving text messages with COMCentre.

FreeCAD makes 3D modeling on the Raspberry Pi easy, even for beginners. A service provider prints the product.