Review by Tim Richardson What is it? The Anavi Light pHAT is a board that sits on top of your Raspberry Pi and controls 12v RGB light strips – not the expensive Neopixels or WS2811’s, but the cheap RGB strips…
Leon Anavi has just launched his latest crowdfunding campaign. This time, he’s created a Zero-sized ‘pHAT’ that allows you to control 12V RGB LED strips from your Raspberry Pi. Also on board are 3 x I2C breakouts to allow you…
Just recently launched on Kickstarter, Pip is a portable “digital creation” device based around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. Let’s take a look at the product, and I’ll give you my opinion at the end. Hardware The Pip is based…
Alex Eames of RasPi.TV fame has run several excellent crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter, normally delivering ahead of time and providing lots of communication along the way. His latest is for the RasPiO FullpHAT and he’s running it as a 7-day campaign from his…
The PiSupply PiJuice is finally here! What is the PiJuice? It’s a battery power pack HAT for your Raspberry Pi. The Review Tim Richardson (@Geeky_Tim) has joined me on this review to give his insight, so we’ll be moving back…
Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV is the first of us reviewers to get his hands on the new PiJuice from Pi Supply. Alex has been sent a sample unit of the PiJuice itself plus a couple of solar panels and…
Ryan Moore has been in touch. He and a small team are running a new Kickstarter to fund the Juicebox Zero. The Juicebox is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi Zero that will power it from a LiPo/LiOn battery…
As you’ll know if you’ve read this blog recently, or seen the side-widget, Alex Eames recently launched a new Kickstarter. Called RasPiO Inspiring, it’s a collection of geometric shapes with powerful ultra-bright APA102 LEDs that you can use to create sculptures…
Alex Eames, who was covered in a community profile yesterday, has used his RasPiO Inspiring system of bright LEDs in geometric shapes to create an illuminated pointing sign. He’s blogged about the mini-project, which involved some foam board, some…
Raspberry Pi has published online an article from issue 52 of The MagPi. It’s a community profile of my friend, Alex Eames (that’s him in the cheesy picture above!), who you probably know from RasPi.TV and RasPiO. Recently, he’s launched a…
