Hi everyone. This is just a quick reminder about Pi Borg’s campaign to raise funds to develop ZeroBorg, which is a motor controller board suitable for use with the Raspberry Pi Zero. I previously covered it here and, with the campaign entering…
Category: Crowdfunding
VoxCube – many blinkies controlled by a Raspberry Pi in this 8x8x8 cube on Kickstarter
Mark Williams from Ozzmaker has been in touch about his new Kickstarter project. Mark previously ran the successful campaign for BerryIMU – a multi-function gyro/accelerometer sensor which now sits at the heart of the Picorder, my sensors-in-a-box project. The new Kickstarter is…
Crowdfunding Raspberry Pi projects – the Pros and Cons
They say to get advice you should ask an expert. Well, when it comes to crowdfunding Raspberry Pi projects, Alex Eames of RasPi.TV is about as close to an expert as you can get with four campaigns under his belt. At…
PiBorg launches new motor controller for the Raspberry Pi Zero
PiBorg, the small company based in St Ives, Cambridgeshire who created the Doodleborg and Diddyborg robots (as well as lots of other boards, bots and, of course the excellent turntable at this year’s Pi Wars), have this morning announced the…
New Kickstarter aims to bring retro gaming controller for the Raspberry Pi Zero to market
Tony from dtronixs.com got in touch with me to tell me about their new Kickstarter. It’s called the R-Kade Zero and it is a range of gaming controllers that fit neatly on top of the Raspberry Pi Zero to allow you to…
New Kickstarter seeks to bring to life a Raspberry Pi powered word clock
David Saul, who has previously run two successful Kickstarters, has just launched his latest crowdfunding campaign. This one is to raise funds to develop and supply a word clock with a customised PCB. The kit is designed to work with…
New home theatre box with surround sound using the Raspberry Pi
This crowdfunding campaign failed. This post is left here for historical reasons. Pi2Design has come up with a very neat package for their latest crowdfunding campaign (campaign failed). The Pi2Media Home Theatre One combines a Raspberry Pi 2 with two add-on boards…
PaPiRus e-ink display for the Raspberry Pi – a couple of reviews
Apologies for the lack of blog posts this week. There are reasons, most of which are too boring to get into! Anyway… The PaPiRus e-paper HAT for the Raspberry Pi was a pretty successful Kickstarter, raising over £36k. The screen…
Read analog sensors with the MCP3008 and GPIO Zero on the Raspberry Pi
Alex Eames recently announced a new reward level for his RasPiO Pro Hat Kickstarter – it includes an MCP3008 analog-to-digital chip and an analog temperature sensor (TMP36). Alex has now written a tutorial to show you how to use the chip…
RasPiO Pro Hat – new reward level launched for Raspberry Pi add-on board
Alex Eames has just announced a new reward level for his RasPiO Pro Hat Kickstarter and I just thought I’d bring it to your attention. In case you missed it, the Pro Hat is a great new plug-in board for the…