Alex Eames, of RasPiO and RasPi.TV fame has just launched his latest Kickstarter. This one is for a rather nice 30cm/12″ ruler filled with GPIO Zero reference code, as pictured above. Alex previously did an RPi.GPIO reference ruler that was half…
Category: GPIO boards
10 Raspberry Pi Zero project ideas
Oh no, not another list, I hear you cry! 🙂 Well, I wrote this one, myself, for The Pi Hut. It’s a collection of projects that you can do with a Raspberry Pi Zero. Obviously, it has a bit of…
Bunch of Raspberry Pi-related reviews over at RasPi.TV
Alex Eames has dug through his review pile and come up with 7 items (!) to look at. The items are as follows: PaPirus Zero from Pi Supply (£24) Displayotron Hat from Pimoroni (£22) Wombat board from Gooligum ($40 USD)…
Review of the RoboHAT for the Raspberry Pi by MagPi magazine
The MagPi has published its review of the 4tronix RoboHAT online. The amazingly positive review of this great HAT previously appeared in the print version and you can read it here. I reviewed the RoboHAT a couple of months ago and you…
Build a spectrum analyzer with two Pimoroni pHATs and a Raspberry Pi Zero
Sandy Macdonald, one of the Pimoroni crew, has written an excellent tutorial in which he takes a pHAT DAC audio board, a Scroll pHAT and a Raspberry Pi Zero, solders them together and creates a visual spectrum analyzer. Python is used…
Ben Nuttall’s top 10 add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi
I don’t normally feature this kind of ‘list’, but it’s Ben Nuttall from the Foundation and I really appreciate his opinion. He’s picked his top 10 favourite add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi and published it over at opensource.com. Take…
Robot face conversation using Sonic Pi on a Raspberry Pi
Robin Newman, who managed to do far more with Sonic Pi than I ever could, has done it again. This time, he’s programmed Sonic Pi with some voice samples which sends commands, via a (pretty darned excellent) PiCon Zero controller board, to two 4tronix…
Get started with Grove sensors with the GrovePi-Zero
US-based Dexter Industries has just launched a new Kickstarter which aims to get you started using Grove sensors. The GrovePi-Zero is, unsurprisingly, a Zero form-factor add-on board which gives you plug-in connections for six Grove modules – 3 analog, 1…
New Enviro pHAT for the Raspberry Pi launched by Pimoroni
Teased in a video stream some weeks ago, the Enviro pHAT has now been launched by Pimoroni. It includes the following: BMP280 temperature/pressure sensor TCS3472 light and RGB colour sensor Two LEDs for illumination LSM303D accelerometer/magnetometer sensor ADS1015 4-channel analog…
PaPiRus Zero for the Raspberry Pi – video walk-round
Francesco Vannini over at Garage Tech recently got hold of a PaPiRus Zero. It’s the latest add-on board for Pi Supply and, like the original PaPiRus, it is an e-ink display. Francesco has done a video walk-around of the new board…