A small company called Next Thing Co. has recently launched a Kickstarter to raise funds for C.H.I.P., the so-called “$9 computer”. It has almost reached the $1.2 million mark with over 23,000 backers. Many people in the industry and in the…
Category: Crowdfunding
New Kickstarter – Small retro screen for the Raspberry Pi
Pi Community member Arthur Amarra of aonsquared.co.uk has recently launched a new Kickstarter for a small add-on board for the Raspberry Pi which uses a Nokia 5110 screen to display data. He’s created various different pledge levels including one with a BMP180…
Powerful stepper motor board for the Raspberry Pi
The guys at Canadian company Roboteurs are currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund their new stepper motor driver board – the SlushEngine. It looks like a stunning piece of kit and has the following features: Controls up to 4 bi-polar stepper…
Build your own digital clock with a Raspberry Pi with this Kickstarter
David Saul is running a Kickstarter campaign to fund a new add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. Compatible with the B+, A+ and Pi 2, the PiMuxClock plugs into the 40-way GPIO header and stands up, giving you a large…
Low-power E-paper display HAT for the Raspberry Pi
Percheron Electronics, which is spear-headed by Neil Matthews (who regularly attends and helps at our Cambridge Raspberry Jams), has just launched its first Kickstarter. The campaign seeks to raise funds to produce an e-paper HAT for the Raspberry Pi. The display…
PiJuice – portable power for the Raspberry Pi
Not sure how I didn’t cover this before… Must have got caught up in Big Birthday Weekend stuff. Aaron Shaw from Pi Supply and his team have developed a new battery pack for the Pi called the PiJuice and are…
Raspberry Pi housing with an integrated screen and keyboard – the PiKasa
I was contacted by South Africa-based Ian Harrison who, together with his team, is doing a crowdfunding campaign to fund the PiKasa. The PiKasa is a housing for the Raspberry Pi with an integrated 800×480 screen, a splash-proof keyboard, a 5-port…
Slice media player powered by Raspberry Pi Compute Module starts shipping
Following months of development, the Slice media player has started to ship to Kickstarter backers. It was announced on the Raspberry Pi blog that 1500 Slice kits were being assembled for delivery to backers and that a further 1500 were…
Fun soldering practice with A Kit A Month
Generally, if you’ve learned how to solder then you love to solder! It’s a nice skill to have but you have to keep doing it to keep that skill fresh, I reckon. Andrew Gale, who did the brilliant GPIO Christmas…
Pi-Top, the Raspberry Pi laptop, version 3 revealed
Ryan Dunwoody and Jesse Lozano, the creators of the Pi-Top laptop, have unveiled the latest version of their machine. It is much thinner and features a larger trackpad and specially designed cantilevered trackpad buttons. I saw the version just before this…