Richard, aka The Average Man, is currently running a Kickstarter campaign for a camera mount with a prototyping area called ProtoCam. He has now blogged about an alternative use for the product – as a camera mount for a robot. It’s…
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RasPi.Today interviews Raspberry Pi LEGO case creator
Russell Barnes has interviewed Tom Murray, inventor of the SmartiPi case which is a LEGO-compatible Raspberry Pi case. I previously covered the case here and am a backer. You can view the Kickstarter project here. Listen to Russell’s interview over…
HDMIPi team to launch 10″ IPS screen
The makers of the HDMIPi screen (which is now in the process of being despatched to Kickstarter backers) are in the early stages of developing a portable 10″ IPS screen for general sale. IPS is a very high-quality, though more expensive screen,…
Build a camera module project with this new Raspberry Pi prototyping board
Richard Saville, aka The Average Man, has just launched his first Kickstarter campaign. The ProtoCam is a prototyping board that plugs into the Pi’s GPIO pins and has a mounting space for the camera module. There are loads of different…
LEGO-compatible Raspberry Pi B+ case launched on Kickstarter
Tom Murray has created a great case for the Model B+ and is currently trying to crowd-fund it through Kickstarter. The SmartiPi is a case that has a LEGO-compatible top. It’s got the following features: Permanently embedded 2×6 Lego® compatible plates.…
New LCD board Kickstarter for the Raspberry Pi
Paul Brown, who invented the MyPiFi board a few months ago and successfully funded it through Kickstarter, has come out with his second board. This time, it’s for using LCD screens. You can see the board in action below: It’s…
Kickstarter robot hits stretch goal, gets Raspberry Pi support
Edison is a tiny robot that runs an 8-bit Freescale processor and is currently being funded via a Kickstarter. It’s just hit the $50k stretch goal which means the software to program it will be supported on the Raspberry Pi. Looks…
TurtlTeck robotics kit from Ryan Walmsley
I don’t normally cover non-Raspberry Pi stuff, but this is one of those rare occasions. Ryan Walmsley, creator of the RyanTeck Motor Controller Board for the Raspberry Pi, has just launched a Kickstarter campaign for his latest product: the TurtlTeck. The…
Slice – a media player powered by Raspberry Pi
A team comprised of Raspberry Pi Foundation insiders, directors of Pimoroni and a music producer have banded together under the title of FiveNinjas to launch a Kickstarter for a new media player called ‘Slice’. The aluminium-cased player is based on…
Solar-powered #RaspberryPi powered school fundraiser
Some folks in South Africa who run the United Twenty-13 non-profit organisation are attempted to build a solar-powered Raspberry Pi lab for schoolkids. To do this, they need to raise just over $10k. This sounds like a great project to get…