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First and third part accessories are the life blood of the Raspberry Pi and maker communities. They bring extra features and enable projects to be realised more easily. With the Raspberry Pi Pico's new form factor there is a need for new accessories and the first to market at Pimoroni, a UK based official Raspberry Pi reseller. They have released 12 new accessories for the Pico, nine of which are available at launch. They range from simple breakout boards enabling multiple addons to be used at once, to advanced audio output devices and a VGA Demo board which uses the Programmable IO of the RP2040 to create DVI video signals. If your interest are more LED inclined then the Unicorn Pack sees 112 RGB LEDs ready to dazzle your eyeballs.  … [Read more...] about Raspberry Pi Pico: Tutorials, Pinout, Everything You Need to Know

SparkFun's Thing Plus shares the same form factor and basic pinout as Adafruit's Feather RP2040, but hidden on the underside of the board is a micro SD card slot useful for larger project files or data logging projects, with 16MB of flash storage granting the SparkFun Thing Plus a large storage capacity. Thing Plus also has a JST battery charging port, 30 GPIO pins including four 12-bit ADC channels, SparkFun's Qwiic Connect I2C sensor connection, and a WS2812 RGB LED. Thing Plus can be used with C/C++ and MicroPython. … [Read more...] about ‘Pi Silicon’ Partners Reveal RP2040 Boards and Accessories

UFC Schedule UFC Fight Island UFC PPV UFC 257 Press Conference Watch UFC Online UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor 2 marks the first big pay-per-view event of the year and Conor McGregor’s return to the Octagon following his retirement announcement last June. The Notorious last fought at UFC 246 in January 2020, where he defeated Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone via knockout just 40 seconds into the first round. That was McGregor’s first bout following a 15-month hiatus after his loss against Khabib Nurmagomedov in 2018, and while fans were excited to see the Irish boxer fight at this higher weight class (he had moved up to welterweight to fight Cerrone), he announced his retirement in June. … [Read more...] about Sign up for ESPN+ now and save $40 on UFC 257: Poirier vs. McGregor 2

Overall winner: Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus The categories are tied for now, but as we think most people will value performance over update speed, the Galaxy S21 Plus wins — just. The OnePlus 8 Pro offers a superior screen, faster updates, similar performance, a great all-around camera, and helpful special features, and when you add in the $200 price difference, it could be that you decide to pick the OnePlus phone. The only exception to this would be if you prize 5G, and in particular mmWave 5G, since only the S21 Plus offers this. It’s such a close fight, but the Samsung phone just squeaks ahead for us. … [Read more...] about Samsung Galaxy S21 Plus vs. OnePlus 8 Pro

But that’s not the biggest problem. The big weak point is the color. The ThinkPad 13’s display hits 63 percent of the sRGB scale, which is poor compared to most laptops we’ve reviewed. Most displays exceed 90 percent, and a few hit 100 percent. Colors do not pop on this display, and it shouldn’t be used by anyone who needs to do color-critical work with photos and videos. To be fair to the ThinkPad 13, it does defeat some affordable laptops, like the aforementioned Radius 14. But that’s not a high bar to clear, and Asus’ Zenbook UX305UA – the gold standard in the budget ultrabook market – is indisputably better. … [Read more...] about Lenovo ThinkPad 13 Ultrabook review