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For the time being this page will contain mostly links to other related Dstar participating web sites until more advanced tips and tricks end up listed. We appreciate your patience!

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Utilizing Raspberry Pi for D-star gateways and other fun things

If you haven't heard the news there is a new product out now that has multiple uses as a low cost, single board computer known as the  Raspberry Pi

The "Pi" was developed for training purposes in schools in the computer sciences field but has since grown into a consumer product. The Pi uses an ARM based processor with 256Mb of RAM and a SD card for installation and storage capabilities. The PI runs light wieght versions of linux operating software with capability for "extra" software to do a multitude of things for around the price of $40 a board.
_{(Actual price of all equipment may be more)}

Newark.com sells a bundle board for easy first time users with most peripherals needed to get up and going on it

Raspberry Pi website can show you a bunch of other ways to use your pi but since this is a radio website we'll keep our content inline with radio

K7VE has a blog about installing and using a Raspberry Pi as a D-star controller. The information is here. He also had a good short and detailed history of Gateways for D-star for your reading enjoyment.

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