Back in May 2014, I was privileged to get hold of a beta version of the RasPiO Duino. It’s a GPIO plug-in accessory that has an onboard ATMega chip that allows you to bring the additional power of an Arduino to the Raspberry…
Category: Crowdfunding
Teaching literature with the Raspberry Pi
Thanks to Helen over at the Foundation for blogging about this Sarah Roman’s high school class in New Jersey, USA is currently studying Bram Stoker’s Dracula. In an effort to promote digital literacy within her class she is looking to…
ProtoCam+ for the Raspberry Pi – final hours on Kickstarter
This is just a quick blog post in the form of a ‘shout-out’ for Richard Saville’s ProtoCam+ Kickstarter. It’s now entering it’s final 30 hours and is already 173% funded. The ProtoCam+ is a great prototyping board for the Pi.…
Raspberry Pi Debug Clip – RyanTeck launches new Kickstarter
Ryan Walmsley from Stevenage, who produced the excellent RTK Motor Controller Board as well as a great value-for-money budget robotics kit, has just launched a new Kickstarter. It’s for a tiny board called the “Raspberry Pi Debug Clip“. The Debug…
Launched today: Flotilla from Pimoroni – easy hacking for the Raspberry Pi
It’s great to see this one finally see the light of day! Sheffield-based Pimoroni have just launched a new Kickstarter for “Flotilla“, which is a hacking platform for the Raspberry Pi. It starts off with the Flotilla dock which plugs into…
New camera prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi model B+/A+
Richard Saville, creator of the ProtoCam prototyping board, has just launched a new Kickstarter. His new board is for the + series of Raspberry Pi, with a 40-pin header, a slot for the camera module, power rails, plenty of space…
Interface a gyro and accelerometer with a Raspberry Pi
Mark Williams is currently running a Kickstarter for a great little sensor add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. It’s called the BerryIMU (which stands for Inertial Measurement Unit). He’s been writing a series of great articles to support the project.…
Create a digital compass with the Raspberry Pi
Mark Williams is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund the BerryIMU. One of the three sensors on the board is a magnetometer, with which you can create a digital compass. Here’s how to do it in C.
Tiny accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope board for the Raspberry Pi
Mark Williams from Ozzmaker has just launched a Kickstarter for the BerryIMU which is an I2C sensor board which contains an accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope. Now, obviously you can get those sensors separately but rarely have I seen a package this small…
Light bar for Raspberry Pi, Arduino etc
Paul Brown of MyPiFi.net has been running Kickstarters for a while now. First of all he did a simple LED-and-button board and then moved onto a plugin board to run an LCD screen. This time, he has created a generic…