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3D Printed Raspberry Pi Case Folds Around Your Pi

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3D printed Raspberry Pi cases are nothing new but YouTuber Print ‘N Play , James,  set himself the goal of 3D printing 26 cases over 26 weeks and his latest case is printed as a single piece and requires no tools to construct.

Designed using Autodesk Fusion, the case was printed on a Prusa I3 3D printer and took around three hours following an iterative process, each time improving

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Portable Raspberry Pi Thermal Camera Can Read Your Temperature at a Distance

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Checking temperature at a distance is definitely on everyone's radar in 2020. The ability to know roughly whether or not someone may have a fever is helpful. Thankfully, Lewis Barclay's Raspberry Pi thermal imaging camera project makes the process easy and non-invasive!

Best of all, the final build is completely portable. It features a Raspberry Pi, a Pimoroni MLX90640 thermal camera , battery bank and a touchscreen display housed inside a single


HP's Tiger Lake Pavilion 13 Laptop Slinks Out of the Shadows

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Apparently, HP has jumped the gun and listed a new Tiger Lake-powered Pavilion 13 laptop (13-bb0027nr) ahead of Intel's scheduled announcement . The company has removed the product page, but the device's specifications (via @momomo_us ) are out there for everyone to see.

The reinvigorated Pavilion 13 arrives with the Intel Core i7-1165G7. The processor sports

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Thermaltake Tt Esports Nemesis Switch MMO Mouse Review: Hobbled by Its Gimmick

Our Verdict

The TT Esports Nemesis Switch is a well-priced quality mouse that attempts to do something different by letting gamers adjust the physical layout of the side macro bank of buttons on the fly. But this ultimately creates more problems than it solves.

For

  • Good price
  • Accurate sensor
  • Solid, weighty feel

Against

  • Profile switch button is easy to click accidentally
  • No dedicated CPI switch button
  • Switchable button layout is impractical and feels unnecessary
  • Spongy side buttons
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Microsoft Surface Duo Will Cost $1,399 on September 10

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Microsoft has finally pulled the wraps off of the Surface Duo, its Android-based foldable (that it won't call a phone). It will start at $1,399 for a 128GB model when it launches on September 10. Microsoft made the announcement in a blog post this morning.

That price puts it among the most expensive phones on the market (it's $1,499 for the 256GB model)

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CrowPi2 Raspberry Pi Laptop Review: Full STEAM Ahead

Our Verdict

The CrowPi2 is a great introduction to Raspberry Pi. Going through the projects will definitely get your creative juices flowing, but some minor documentation flaws and missing hardware may hinder the learning process and dampen the fun.

For

  • Out-of-the-box demos
  • Complete Raspberry Pi coding environment
  • Easy-to-build Scratch programs
  • Utilizes Python 3 coding standard

Against

  • Occasionally unclear documentation
  • Batteries and microUSB cable not included in kit

If you or your kids ever wanted to use Raspberry Pi to create cool projects , learn how to

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Xbox Series X Confirmed for November Launch

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Everyone who’s been chomping at the bit to join Master Chief on his latest sci-fi adventure will be happy to know that Xbox today announced a firm release window for the Xbox Series X: this November . However, like a monkey’s paw granting a wish, the company also announced that Halo Infinite - the system’s biggest title- is getting delayed to 2021.

In some ways, this news isn’t wholly surprising. Both the Xbox 3


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Thermaltake Wants to Jazz up the Way You Apply Thermal Compound

TG-30 Thermal Compound (Image credit: Thermaltake)

Thermaltake have launched the TG-30 and TG-50 thermal compounds that come with an interesting way of applying them to the processor's IHS (integrated heat spreader). The biggest novelty with the TG-30 and TG-50 is that Thermaltake includes a honeycomb-patterned stencil and a small spatula to paint the thermal compound over the IHS. The stencil is compatible with both Intel and AMD processors.

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Intel Promo Drops 9th Gen Coffee Lake CPU Pricing Up To 25 Percent

Intel Core i9-9900K (Image credit: Intel)

Finding an Intel processor with a decent discount is certainly not something you see every day, so it's a bit surprising to see that prices on 9th-Gen processors have recently plummeted at several retailers. We followed up with Intel to see if this was the result of an official price cut, or if retailers were just independently discounting the chips to clear their stock of the previous-gen chips. Intel responded to Tom'


Nvidia Hosting GeForce Announcement on Sept 1, Likely Ampere, RTX 3080

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Nvidia will host an online GeForce-focused event on September 1, the company announced today. CEO Jensen Huang will lead the broadcast at 9 a.m. Pacific / 12 p.m. ET. The company says it will "highlight the company’s latest innovations in gaming and graphics," so it's likely to focus on consumer-facing Ampere GPUs, likely the RTX 3000 series.

Yesterday, Nvidia announced a 21-day "ultimate