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Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton announced another price increase for the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5, now priced at $385, up $80 from before. The 16GB Compute Module 5 also rises by $40, while the Raspberry Pi 500+ keeps its current price despite having 16GB of RAM. Upton attributed the hike to ongoing shortages of 16GB DRAM modules and a lack of alternative suppliers.
Raspberry Pi founder Eben Upton announced the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 now costs $385, an $80 increase, while the 16GB Compute Module 5 rises by $40. The 16GB Raspberry Pi 500+ desktop, already priced at $485, will not see a price hike this round. Upton attributed the increases to rising memory component costs, noting other computer makers have faced similar pressures.
Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton announced another price hike for the 16GB Raspberry Pi 5, blaming a lack of alternative DRAM supply combined with shortages of other components. Upton advised customers to avoid paying for more memory than they need, suggesting lower-memory or older Pi models as alternatives. The 2GB Raspberry Pi 5 configuration had already seen a price increase the previous month.
OqtaDrive, a hobby project started on 9 May 2021 by an Arduino-based emulator of Sinclair Microdrives for the ZX Spectrum and QL, has reached its fifth anniversary and 34th release. Over that time it added a web UI, CP/M support, snapshot loading via Z80onMDR, ZXDB search integration, and in April 2024 gained the ability to act as an internet gateway for the Sinclair Network, letting users transfer files with friends remotely using standard SAVE and LOAD commands.
A hobbyist built two small neural networks—a looped transformer 'world model' that generates game frames and rewards, and a lightweight MLP 'actor' that chooses actions—running together entirely on a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W microcontroller. The world model, ranging from 26,000 to 131,000 parameters, predicts the next frame and reward from the current frame and action, while the actor (9,000-16,000 parameters) picks moves based only on generated frames, never touching the real game logic. The project also supports a streaming reinforcement learning agent that can learn to play while running inside the simulated 'dream' itself.
Device tree files for an unannounced Raspberry Pi Zero 3 W and a Raspberry Pi 4 Model A have appeared in Raspberry Pi's Linux kernel tree, first spotted by Phoronix. The Zero 3 W files indicate it uses the Broadcom BCM2711 quad-core Cortex-A72 chip found in the Pi 4, a major upgrade from the Zero 2 W's Cortex-A53 processor, along with configuration suggesting an 8-bit eMMC storage controller.
Michael Newton, an avionics engineer in Calgary, leads the open-source Recreate Apollo project, which uses a Raspberry Pi running the Virtual AGC emulator to power a full-scale 3D-printed DSKY display and keyboard replica. The build runs actual Apollo 13 Command Module software, recreating the interface astronauts used for navigation, autopilot manoeuvres and Earth entry.
Cologne-based designer Kevin Noki built the ADHD ONE, a 3D-printed handset styled after 1980s brick phones, using a Raspberry Pi Pico, an FSC-BT1026C Bluetooth module, and a rechargeable battery. The device has no cellular radio of its own and instead connects via Bluetooth to an iPhone to make and receive calls. Noki is selling the design files, including STL parts, firmware, and manufacturing files, for €29.99 through his website.
The Free Software Foundation's deputy director Sean O'Brien published a statement criticizing Raspberry Pi's bootloader firmware, which since 2024 has included checks that can prevent the board from recognizing or booting with replacement RAM soldered on by users, even when the new memory is electrically compatible and of equal capacity. O'Brien argues this goes beyond the organization's existing objection to Raspberry Pi's nonfree firmware, calling the RAM-detection mechanism a form of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM).
Scottish modder Joshua Kennedy has completed a nine-year effort to pull off the Xbox 360's CPU reset-glitch hack using a $4 Raspberry Pi Pico microcontroller instead of costly specialized glitching hardware. The exploit sends a precisely timed signal to the CPU's reset pin, causing it to misexecute instructions in a way that lets arbitrary code run, bypassing Microsoft's console security.
The open-source memory testing tool Memtest86+ now runs on ARM64 systems with UEFI and ACPI, tested on Qualcomm Snapdragon X laptops, Raspberry Pi 4 and 5 with community firmware, and QEMU. The update also lets users save full test reports to a FAT32 USB drive via F6, introduces a new bus stress test for DDR5+ systems, and reworks test algorithms with SIMD instructions for faster, more thorough error detection.
A security researcher built a custom laser fault injection platform to attack the RP2350 microcontroller, targeting Raspberry Pi's DEFCON 2024 Hacking Challenge. Using a single laser-induced fault, the researcher reportedly bypassed the chip's Secure Boot protections and extracted secret data stored in its OTP memory, then submitted the findings to Raspberry Pi.