The Raspberry Pi Pico Review – $4 ARM Microcontroller

The Raspberry Pi Pico Review – $4 ARM Microcontroller

The Raspberry Pi Foundation today introduced a new $4 microcontroller board, the Pico. It uses a brand new custom dual-core Arm M0+ processor, the RP2040. What makes it tick, and how is it to use it? Why buy it instead of another microcontroller, or even a Raspberry...
Comparing Cooling Solutions On A Raspberry Pi 4 – Is Water Cooling Worth It?

Comparing Cooling Solutions On A Raspberry Pi 4 – Is Water Cooling Worth It?

Last week, I put together a water-cooled Raspberry Pi 4 and overclocked it to 2.0Ghz. It worked really well, but the system is really big and quite expensive. So, I wanted to compare it to a couple of other Raspberry Pi cooling solutions to see which is the most...
Water Cooled Raspberry Pi 4 – Totally Unnecessary, But Pretty Awesome

Water Cooled Raspberry Pi 4 – Totally Unnecessary, But Pretty Awesome

I wanted to see if I could use a PC water cooling kit to water cool a Raspberry Pi 4. I’ve seen a couple of people try this on older model Pi’s using reducers and adapters to get to a small cooling block onto the CPU, but I’m going to try and make an...
Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 OVERCLOCKED

Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4 OVERCLOCKED

Everyone knows you can overclock the Pi 4. But what happens when you overclock a Compute Module 4? The results surprised me! More info in my blog post: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/overclocking-raspberry-pi-compute-module-4 Phoronix benchmark script:...