This showed that the Raspberry Pi would happily talk with a VL805-based USB 3.0 PCIe expansion card, as well as a Realtek RTL8111-based Ethernet card, but not a number of other PCIe cards.

Anyone who has a gaming PC knows that you use a PCIe socket for installing the most important component on your PC, a graphics card. But not everyone knows what to do with the extra PCIe sockets since ...

The only problem was that the PCIe interface was dedicated to the USB 3.0 controller; but that’s nothing a hot-air rework station couldn’t fix. We’ve previously seen steady-handed hackers ...