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May was another busy month for me, and one which marks the last before I head in a new direction: from June onwards I ll be appearing on-camera, producing one video a month for Avnet s Hackster.io on top of a marginally-reduced (60 articles instead of 78) news workload. Arguably the most interesting of May s happenings [ ]
My output for April looks busier than it is: my event coverage from Embedded World 2026 in Nuremberg, which I recorded in March, has finally been published marking my first proper video pieces. Considering that I was both presenter and cameraman simultaneously and aren t gimbal cameras great for that I think it [ ]
By far the biggest bit of work for me this month was Embedded World as I was covering it in-person in Nuremberg, for Avnet s Hackster.io. While I ve done plenty of event coverage in the past everything from Computex and Cebit to the annual SuSE Linux conference this particular event marked a shift [ ]
February has been another busy month, with plenty of news to cover for Avnet s Hackster including a big-ticket acquisition, as Texas Instruments spends $7.5 billion to pick up Silicon Labs lock, stock, and barrel. Raspberry Pi, meanwhile, has been playing both sides of the AI bubble: on the one hand it s still pushing its [ ]
A new year starts, and my work continues again. As usual, my output this month was dominated by my news coverage for Avnet s Hackster and this time it included a detailed hands-on review of the new Raspberry Pi AI HAT+ 2 add-on board, powered by a Hailo accelerator chip. Other than that, though, you ll [ ]
Another month is done and dust, and this time it s the last of 2025. The biggest piece of work from December was, of course, my hands-on review of the Commodore 64 Ultimate the first product from the reborn Commodore, and an FPGA-powered souped-up recreation of the original breadbin Commodore 64. A Commodore 64 was, [ ]
The sixth edition of my best-selling book, The Official Raspberry Pi Beginner s Guide, is out now featuring updates for the latest Raspberry Pi OS software, the Raspberry Pi 5, and the Raspberry Pi 500+ including full instructions on how to open it up and replace the internal SSD. I ve been working on the Beginner s Guide, [ ]
After a very light October, November is a return to form with a wealth of articles published on Hackster but not only on Hackster. As part of a plan to diversify my outlets, I ve set up shop on Ko-fi and Patreon, in addition to my existing Medium profile (which, it turns out, is a bad [ ]
After a busy year-to-date just scroll down to previous months, you ll see what I mean October was my time to take a break, catch up on some personal projects, and think about new directions. As a result, it s a very thin roundup this month: my usual newsletters, naturally, but beyond that only a [ ]
September s been another busy month, with two standout events: the 50th anniversary of BYTE Magazine, for which I wrote a lengthy retrospective covering its founding, growth, and eventual decline; and the launch of the Raspberry Pi 500+ wedge-style computer, an upgraded Raspberry Pi 500 with twice the RAM, on-board NVMe storage, and a shiny [ ]