Russell Barnes has done a great interview with the creators of the Pi Top, the Raspberry Pi laptop that you put together yourself. He interviews Ryan Dunwoody and Jesse Lozano and goes into the process behind developing and marketing the product,…
Category: Crowdfunding
South African computer lab powered by Raspberry Pis goes live
Back in July, the Raspberry Pi Foundation covered a crowdfunding project to create a solar-powered computer lab in South Africa. The crowdfunding was a success and the lab is now up-and-running. At the heart of the lab is a classroom set…
PiPiano – a new Raspberry Pi add-on board
The PiPiano is a new add-on board for the Raspberry Pi which plugs into the GPIO header and gives you access to 13 buttons, 3 LEDs and a buzzer. It’s been designed to be used as a piano input device…
Get a Christmas tree for your Raspberry Pi and learn Charlieplexing!
Andrew Gale from Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire did some great little robot soldering kits for the CamJam in September. He’s now branching out (ha-ha… oh, wait… that joke doesn’t make sense yet) into Christmas trees (see… branching out? branch… Never mind). He’s…
EduBoard – a multi-function board and OLED display for the Raspberry Pi
There have been lots of boards on Kickstarter and IndieGoGo for the Pi, and here’s another one – a really fun, educational one. This one is called the EduBoard and features the following: 1 x RGB LED 1 x OLED…
PiTop launches IndieGoGo campaign – Raspberry Pi laptop
PiTop is a laptop that you build yourself and contains, within it’s plastic case, a Raspberry Pi model B+. They’ve just launched their crowdfunding campaign over on IndieGoGo and they’re already going great guns with over 50% of their total…
Kickstarter tracker on the Raspberry Pi (part 2)
Alex Eames is currently running a series on programming a Kickstarter tracker script on the Pi using Python. He’s just published part 2. Part 1 can be found here.
Pi-Top finalises design and announces smallest Raspberry Pi robot
Pi-Top, the company behind the upcoming crowdfunding Raspberry Pi-powered laptop, have just announced that they’ve finalised their design. Speaking to 3dprint.com, they’ve also announced their expected price point, which is around $300 (Earlybird backers can expect a discount on this).…
Gert’s VGA GPIO adapter for the Raspberry Pi now on Kickstarter
Pi Supply has not long launched a new Kickstarter campaign that will bring Gert Van Loo’s VGA adapter to market. The adapter, which plugs into the GPIO of the Raspberry Pi Model B+ (B+ only!), will come in kit form, so…
Program a Kickstarter tracker in Python on the Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames wanted an easy way to track multiple Kickstarter campaigns. So, he decided to write one himself… As you do. He’s started a series on his blog, RasPi.TV. Read the first part here.