Plum Geek have previously launched, and successfully funded a series of Arduino-powered robots on Kickstarter. Now, they’ve moved into the Raspberry Pi arena with the Spirit Rover. Inspired by the NASA/JPL Mars Rover, the full kit features a custom circuit…
Category: GPIO boards
Using the Picap peripheral with the Raspberry Pi to take a Quality poll with conductive ink
Picap is a new product from Bare Conductive. It gives an easy way to connect up wires to your Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins (via crocodile clips) and is designed to receive input from conductive sources. They sent me one recently, so…
Pi Supply launches JustBoom – a range of audio add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi
Pi Supply have launched a massive range of audio add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. Called JustBoom, the range includes the following: DAC HAT – a plug and play, high resolution, digital-to-analog converter (£30). Digi HAT – producing an unmodified, high quality,…
Dexter Industries launches new spy-flavoured Kickstarter featuring the Raspberry Pi and lots of sensors!
Dexter Industries, who previously launched BrickPi, Arduberry and GoPiGo (and a few others) on Kickstarter, have just launched their new campaign. Called Spy vs sPi, the new product is “an engineering adventure that puts real purpose to basic design and…
Adorable French mini-bike drives itself with the aid of a Raspberry Pi
Eric Unnervik, a master’s student at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland, has developed a miniature motorbike that drives itself! Onto the bike he has strapped a Raspberry Pi (3, I think), a Navio2 add-on board and some…
New SenseHAT emulator for the Raspberry Pi desktop
A few weeks ago, the Foundation launched a SenseHAT emulator that worked over your web browser. Given that many Pis are used offline, and also that there are still many older Pis out there that aren’t powerful enough to use…
Enviro pHAT for the Raspberry Pi reviewed by The MagPi
The MagPi have published their review of Pimoroni’s Enviro pHAT. The add-on board, which features a barometer/temperature sensor, a light/colour sensor and an accelerometer as well as several analog inputs, is given a very positive review. Read it here. The…
ZeroBorg from PiBorg reviewed by the Raspberry Pi’s MagPi magazine
The MagPi have published their review of PiBorg’s ZeroBorg, the motor controller board from the successful Kickstarter campaign from a few months ago. In the extremely positive review, they look at the features and form-factor of the board, which is…
Catch those eggs in this cute Raspberry Pi / SenseHAT game
Dan Aldred wrote an article for MagPi issue 47 in which he creates a simple game using the SenseHAT and the Raspberry Pi. In the game, you play a red “basket” at the bottom of the screen which moves according to…
4tronix release new ZeroPoint Analog board – use for Raspberry Pi gauges!
Featuring a small stepper motor and an orange pointer, the new ZeroPoint board from 4tronix allows you to add a gauge to the Raspberry Pi. It has a Zero-sized form-factor and the motor is driven by an H-bridge motor controller.…