Achilleus from Samnium has contacted me about an application he’s written for the Raspberry Pi 3. It is a light framework for reading data from multiple sensors and sending them over the network. It’s called IoTWork.Reader and was developed in…
Category: GPIO boards
Pimoroni solderless headers for the Raspberry Pi reviewed
Jenny List over at Hackaday recently posted about the Pimoroni solderless headers. Met with a certain amount of resistance and skepticism from the Hackaday crowd as to the suitability of both the method of hammering in the pins and their…
IQaudIO releases new audiophile add-on board for the Raspberry Pi
IQaudIO have just released their newest board, the Pi-DAC Pro HAT. Using the PCM5242 DAC, this board gives higher quality output than its predecessors and features both Phono and Headphone sockets. Here is the list of features: Raspberry Pi HAT (A+/B+/2/3) compliant accessory…
French car manufacturer’s open source car uses two Raspberry Pis
French car manufacturer Renault are to launch an open source car platform called POM (based on Twizy), it was announced at CES last week. What seems to have slipped under the radar is that there are two Raspberry Pis on…
Build your own fixed-wing drone with a Raspberry Pi Zero
Iker Zubi has written up instructions for building a fixed-wing drone using a Zero and the PXFmini add-on board. There’s a bill-of-materials and pictures of the build at each stage. He reckons the whole thing comes to about $150 (although…
Pimoroni releases solderless headers for the Raspberry Pi Zero and add-on boards
If you are scared to solder, or don’t want to go to the expense of buying one, there are a few things that you just can’t do with the Raspberry Pi. It’s true that many add-on boards come with their…
JustBoom AmpHAT audio board for the Raspberry Pi – a review
Yesterday afternoon, I had great fun setting up the JustBoom AmpHAT. JustBoom is a new player in the Raspberry Pi audio market, but comes from well-known company Pi Supply. I was sent the full family of JustBoom boards for review by Aaron, but…
Animated elf-on-a-shelf using a Dexter Industries servo board and a Raspberry Pi
The folks over at Dexter Industries have taken an elf-on-a-shelf, their PivotPi servo controller board, a servo and an ultrasonic distance sensor and built an animated elf that reacts and waves when someone approaches it. It’s very cute and you…
Pimoroni announces new HAT for the Raspberry Pi that uses a new Android OS!
Pimoroni have just announced a new HAT for the Raspberry Pi, and a new operating system to go along with it. The HAT is called the RainbowHAT (full specs in a moment) and the operating system is Android Things (TM, and…
Zero-sized Solar Energy Management Module for the Raspberry Pi
Here’s a bit of a novelty on the crowdfunding front. The PiSolMan is a Zero-form-factor add-on board which will take in a power source and also a solar panel to provide constant power to the Pi. It has circuitry on-board…