Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has tested out some sound cards from IQaudIO, JustBoom, and HiFiBerry. What’s great about his review is that he’s not only tested out what they sound like but also what kind of user experiences you get when faced with the task…
Category: GPIO boards
Last few days for the Maketronix Alarm – build your own Raspberry Pi-powered alarm system
Zach and Jake are into the last few days of their IndieGoGo campaign for the Maketronix Alarm. It is a simple add-on board for the Raspberry Pi and houses 9 buttons, an LED, a buzzer and a header for a PIR movement sensor,…
Christmas Shopping Guide from the Raspberry Pi Foundation
Alex over at the Foundation has blogged a great Pi-centric shopping guide for the festive season. She’s picked a lot of good stuff here including kits, add-ons, books and accessories. I was going to do my own guide, but she’s done…
New products from Ozzmaker add GPS to their Raspberry Pi range
Mark Williams, over at Australian add-on board design company Ozzmaker, has just announced that they have two new products. The BerryGPS uses a M10478-A2 GPS module from Antenova (able to track 22 satellites) which requires no external antenna, assuming you can…
Mobile network / Internet of Things add-on boards campaign for the Raspberry Pi adds a video streaming pledge level
SixFab are currently running a Kickstarter campaign for a collection of IoT boards that allow your Raspberry Pi to connect to the GPRS, 3G and 4G networks (as well as a GPS board). They’ve recently added a Video Streamer Pack pledge level…
Drawing your attention to a ridiculously useful Raspberry Pi site: pinout.xyz
Phil Howard, who works for awesome maker firm Pimoroni, has a pet project he and others (including @RogueHal13) have been working on for a couple of years now: pinout.xyz. It is a fantastic database of add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi…
New Zero-sized power supply solution for the Raspberry Pi supporting a range of input voltages
UUGear, who previously gave us a selection of hubs and UPS solutions for the Pi, have just released a Zero-sized power supply board that accepts voltages from 5-26V. It’s called the Zero2Go and has the following features: No soldering required…
New crowdfunding campaign for a Raspberry Pi-powered, hobbyists’ alarm system
Zach and Jake are two 16-year olds who are starting up a company called MakeTronix. To launch their company, they are running an IndieGoGo campaign to raise funds to produce the MakeTronix Alarm. It is a hobbyists’ alarm system featuring a…
New Kickstarter seeks to bring an easy Internet of Things to the Raspberry Pi
SixFab (and on Twitter) has just launched a new Kickstarter campaign for a series of Internet of Things add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. The ‘shields’ are as follows: 4G/LTE 3G GSM/GPRS GPS XBee They are compatible with all models of Raspberry…
Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap proves to be a versatile Raspberry Pi add-on
Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that plugs into the GPIO pins. It provides the following features: 12 conductive crocodile clip-compatible connection points High quality audio output via a 3.5mm jack A user-programmable RGB LED…