Blog posts tagged
"Raspberry Pi"

60 posts


Rhys Davies
8 May 2020

Ubuntu 20.04 LTS is certified for the Raspberry Pi

Article Internet of Things

The release of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS was April 23, 2020. On the same day, Canonical added full support for Ubuntu Server 20.04 on all of the Raspberry Pis that we certify.  Users can flash 20.04 to their Raspberry Pi knowing Canonical guarantees it will ‘just work’ and can make the most out of all of

Rhys Davies
8 May 2020


Rhys Davies
30 April 2020

How to use the Raspberry Pi High Quality camera on Ubuntu Core

Article Internet of Things

The new High Quality (HQ) camera from the people over at Raspberry Pi is now available. And as they say, it is really rather good. It has the option for interchangeable lenses, a 12 MP sensor, a distinct improvement from the previous 8MP V2 camera, and a tripod screw mount. In this post, I’ll walk

Rhys Davies
30 April 2020


Rhys Davies
24 March 2020

Building a Raspberry Pi cluster with MicroK8s

Article Internet of Things

The tutorial for building a Raspberry Pi cluster with MicroK8s is here. This blog is not a tutorial. This blog aims to answer; why? Why would you build a Raspberry Pi cluster with MicroK8s? Here we go a little deeper to understand the hype around Kubernetes, the uses of cluster computing and the capabilities of

Rhys Davies
24 March 2020


Rhys Davies
13 March 2020

How to install Ubuntu with the new Raspberry Pi Imager

Article Internet of Things

The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently released their new “Raspberry Pi Imager” and we love it.  It’s a new tool that makes getting going with the Raspberry Pi easier than ever. All it takes is a simple install and three clicks before you have an SDcard ready for Pi. In this article, I’m going to talk

Rhys Davies
13 March 2020


Galem KAYO
9 December 2019

Updated images of Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4

Article Cloud and server

Updated 32-bit and 64-bit images of Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi family of devices have just been released. Innovators around the world can now download 32-bit images for the Raspberry Pi 2, 3 and 4, as well as 64-bit images for the Raspberry Pi 3 and 4. With the new images, USB ports are now

Galem KAYO
9 December 2019


Galem KAYO
26 November 2019

Turning your Raspberry Pi 4 into an Edge Gateway (Part I)

Article Internet of Things

Developers get new opportunities to innovate with the emergence of edge computing. However, to unleash this innovation, form factors and software stacks suitable for hacking edge applications need to be made accessible. Canonical has enabled Ubuntu on the Raspberry Pi 4 for this purpose. Furthermore,  popular edge and...

Galem KAYO
26 November 2019


Galem KAYO
3 November 2019

Roadmap for Ubuntu official support for the Raspberry Pi 4

Article Internet of Things

Update: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and 19.10 images for the Raspberry Pi 4 are now available on the Raspberry Pi downloads page. With 19.10 release of Ubuntu Server, Canonical announced official support for the Raspberry Pi 4. The latest board from the Raspberry Pi Foundation sports a faster system-on-a-chip with a processor that...

Galem KAYO
3 November 2019


Canonical
17 October 2019

Ubuntu 19.10 delivers Kubernetes at the edge, multi-cloud infrastructure economics and an integrated AI/ML developer experience

Article AI

17th October 2019: Canonical today announced the release of Ubuntu 19.10 with a focus on accelerating developer productivity in AI/ML, new edge capabilities for MicroK8s and delivering the fastest GNOME desktop performance.  “In the fifteen years since the first Ubuntu release, we have seen Ubuntu evolve from the...

Canonical
17 October 2019


Galem KAYO
23 July 2019

Getting started with Ubuntu Core – streaming video from a Raspberry Pi

Article Internet of Things

Artificial intelligence relies on machine vision just as much as human intelligence relies on vision. Image sensors are, therefore, crucial for AI applications because of the richness of data that they capture. Capturing and processing video and images at the edge is a capability that intelligent IoT applications need...

Galem KAYO
23 July 2019


alfonsosanchezbeato
18 June 2019

Your first robotic arm with Ubuntu Core, coming from Niryo

Article Ubuntu

Niryo has built a fantastic 6-axis robotic arm called ‘Niryo One’. It is a 3D-printed, affordable robotic arm focused mainly on educational purposes. Additionally, it is fully open source and based on ROS. On the hardware side, it is powered by a Raspberry Pi 3 and NiryoStepper motors, based on Arduino microcontrollers....

alfonsosanchezbeato
18 June 2019


Calvin Hartwell
27 February 2019

Single-Node Kubernetes on Raspberry Pi with MicroK8s and Ubuntu

Article Internet of Things

Introduction The goal of this blog post is to explain how to setup and run Ubuntu Server on a Raspberry Pi with MicroK8s on-top to provide a single-node Kubernetes host for development and testing. In the last few months Ubuntu Server 18.04 has been ported to run the Raspberry Pi 2/3 which means we can

Calvin Hartwell
27 February 2019


Robert Ancell
19 February 2019

Easy IoT with Ubuntu Core and Raspberry Pi

Article Internet of Things

My current job involves me mostly working in the upper layers of the desktop software stack however I started out working in what was then called embedded engineering but now would probably be know as the Internet of Things (IoT). I worked on a number of projects which normally involved taking some industrial equipment (radio

Robert Ancell
19 February 2019


Alan Pope
20 December 2018

Ubuntu Core Smart Speaker

Article Desktop

With the holidays coming up, many of us can expect to spend time with our friends and families, often listening to seasonal music, or indeed escaping the seasonal music! Whether you’re joining in or getting away from the crowd, this simple project can help. This is part one of a series of posts where I

Alan Pope
20 December 2018


Kyle Fazzari
16 March 2018

Your first robot: Sharing with others [5/5]

Article Desktop

This is the fifth (and final) blog post in this series about creating your first robot with ROS and Ubuntu Core. In the previous post we discussed methods of control, did a little math, and wrote the ROS driver for our robot. But it still required several nodes to be running at once, and sharing

Kyle Fazzari
16 March 2018