While the Raspberry Pi has very good support for an I2C bus, a lot of very cool chips – including the in system programmer for just about every ATtiny and ATmega microcontroller – use an SPI bus.

The Raspberry Pi Foundation is finally designing a microcontroller with its own chip. Here's how you can use it for your projects and everything you need to know about its features and specs.

Raspberry Pi's Raspbian gets new features: File manager, Thonny Python IDE updates The Raspbian OS gets file manager improvements and support for the Linux Orca accessibility app.