This project will work with a 7.3" display just as well - they are £79.50! https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/inky-impression?variant=5...

Disclaimer: I am the CEO of Pimoroni :-)

I love the inky impression!

I am using my 13 inch inky display for my own birdnet - I also posted this in another thread last week https://i.imgur.com/5XbM6bb.png

I also bought 3 more 4 inch ones. Here is the first deployment next to the fish tank - https://i.imgur.com/nj8nKrS.png - I like this because I can stuff an rtl sdr in that box too, so it picks up nearby radio sensors in addition to BT. Real nice project screen!

I usually only refresh the image on the screen every few hours. I love how the image stays even with no power.

Yeah, the 4 and 7.3" prices are not bad, the jump to 13 is just large. That being said, the cost per area goes down, so it is also probably fair.

Cost per area is pretty much what drives all display pricing. :-)

Pick and place machines can place components very precisely at any angle - they really don’t care!

This is about the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 (based on the RP2350), not the original Raspberry Pi.

And is it better with bad cooling?

It's better with absolutely no cooling. It doesn't even consume (and thus dissipate) 100mW flat-out.

Maybe they should have branded it differently …

They did, it's the Raspberry Pi Pico (as opposed to the Raspberry Pi) as a dev board or the RP2350 (as opposed to the BCMXXXX) as a chip.

Seriously. Different. Eh.

Yes.

Haha — this was a fun day! It's honestly surprising how robust the RP2350 was under such extreme experimentation. Mike's write-up walks through pushing the core voltages far beyond stock limits and dry-ice cooling to see what the silicon could handle.

Credit where it's due: Mike is a wizard. He's been involved in some of our more adventurous tinkering, and his input on the more complex areas of our product software has been invaluable. Check out his GitHub for some really interesting projects: https://github.com/MichaelBell

Blatant plug: We have a wide range of boards based on the RP2350 for all sorts of projects! https://shop.pimoroni.com/collections/pico :-)

You might be thinking of Progress Quest!

Yes! Thank you.

There's been much debate about Raspberry Pi straying from its mission to provide affordable computers. I disagree.

Raspberry Pi offers models ranging from $10 to $120, all readily available — more so than ever.

Adjusted for inflation, the original $35 Raspberry Pi Model B (launched 2012) would be $50 today. The Raspberry Pi 5 2GB is also $50 today and vastly outperforms the original, delivering far greater bang for buck.

Though I can’t speak to their internal decisions, it’s seems from the outside that they continue to try to maximise the value of the Raspberry Pi while maintaining the original price point.

Disclaimer: Co-founder of Pimoroni, one of the first Raspberry Pi resellers.

It is still cheap and accessible. The cheapest Pi model is just over $10 [1], the most expensive is $120 [2].

And within that range there are a number of options with different CPU power, connectivity options, and RAM. Take your pick!

[1] Raspberry Pi Zero - https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero

[2] Raspberry Pi 5 16GB - https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-5

Because now there is a large range of options.

Here's your $20 Pi (still supported and available to buy): https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-zero-2-w

Here's your $120 Pi (many times faster and with 32 x the RAM): https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-5

The choice is right there for you with many other options in between...

We have a pre-order up for these while stock is limited during launch in case you want to get in the queue! https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-ai-kit

It's not.. `light-color` refers to the colour you want presented if the user's preference is for a "light" theme.

It's not declaring the relative brightness of the two colours - I agree it could be documented a little less ambiguously with something like `light-theme-color`.

I got confused because I thought it would set a background color. For text it's inverted and hence correct.

It sets the foreground/text color because it's used with the `color` property (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color). You can use it to set the background color too in which case you'd do `background-color: light-dark(white, black);`