Today, The Pi Hut has announced that they are selling a new product: ZeroSeg. The ZeroSeg features an 8-character 7-segment display (2 x 4-character) controlled by a MAX7219CNG chip. There are two buttons which you can custom-program to do what you…
Category: GPIO boards
The MagPi reviews the Analog Zero for the Raspberry Pi from RasPiO
The MagPi has published their review of the Analog Zero from issue 48. It’s an extremely positive review and really highlights how usable the board is. I really like it (I covered it in a preview a few months ago) as…
Raspberry Pi Foundation launches SenseHAT emulator
Dave Honess, over at the Foundation, has just announced the availability of a SenseHAT emulator. It allows you to use a virtual SenseHAT and program it with the sense_hat Python library. Pretty neat! You can even manually alter the virtual…
Review of the Papirus Zero for the Raspberry Pi from Pi Supply
Alex Eames, over at RasPi.TV has had a chance to play with the Papirus Zero from Pi Supply. It is a small e-ink display with two sizes of screen and very low power consumption. He gives a broadly positive review, going…
The MagPi reviews the 4tronix Raspberry Pi Zero Motor Shim board
The MagPi has posted their review of the 4tronix Zero Motor Shim board from issue 47. The largely positive review shows just how flexible the board is, especially considering it only takes up 6 GPIO pins. You can read the…
Moto Z modular Android phone gets a Raspberry Pi HAT adapter
Motorola and Element 14 have launched a development kit for creating add-ons for the new Moto Z mobile phone. As well as this kit, they’ve also announced that there will be a Raspberry Pi HAT adapter board (pictured above). It…
Enviro pHAT reviewed and used with the Raspberry Pi and the Initial State dashboard
Jamie Bailey has written a great review of Pimoroni’s Enviro pHAT. He’s evaluated the sensors on-board and has then integrated them, using Python, with the Initial State dashboard. He’s used the temperature sensor and accelerometer to provide data and has…
New Kickstarter seeks to raise funds for UART boards
Tony Chang from Pridopia has been in touch. They are currently running a Kickstarter (which I must admit I missed!) to raise money to fund the development of a series of boards to expand the Pi’s UART capabilities. The boards…
The MagPi reviews the RasPiO ProHAT for the Raspberry Pi
In the MagPi issue 47, Phil King wrote a review of the RasPiO ProHAT. This clever prototyping HAT breaks out all the GPIO pins in numerical (BCM) order to female headers as well as adding several power and ground ports.…
Controlling a toy crane from Scratch on a Raspberry Pi using the SenseHAT
Albert Hickey wanted a new project to take to Jams. He’d seen the micro:bit controlling a toy crane so he got hold of one at Home Bargains. He used the SenseHAT as a controller and, thanks to a handy tutorial from…