Today has been all about trying new things. I tried out a great UPS board from Germany and then moved on to a new board from Alex Eames over at RasPiO. The Analog Zero is a Pi Zero-sized board that…
Category: GPIO boards
Raspberry Pi UPS HAT from S.USV – review
I was sent one of these HATs to get some feedback and a review. I’m free to say what I like. Introduction Today, I’m reviewing the S.USV HAT from German company S.Seprotronic GmbH. The HAT comes in two flavours – Basic…
Create a Raspberry Pi access point with PaPiRus and Pi PoE
Francesco Vannini recently had an article published in The MagPi about creating an access point using a Pi and two add-on boards: PaPiRus and Pi PoE from Pi Supply. He’s now blogged the full instructions of the project and you can read them…
Ryanteck launches USB compatible Raspberry Pi GPIO header on Kickstarter
Ryan Walmsley of Ryanteck has just launched a new Kickstarter. This time, it’s for a very innovative product called the RTK.GPIO (the jury is still out on the name 😉 ). It connects to any computer (including the Pi) via…
New add-on board brings wifi and Bluetooth to the Raspberry Pi Zero
RedBear (who previously ran a Kickstarter for a wifi-enabled Arduino-type board) have just launched their latest crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. This time, it is for an IoT add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that adds 802.11n wifi and Bluetooth 4.1…
Cosmic ray detector for the Raspberry Pi from CERN
A team from CERN in Switzerland has been developing a Raspberry Pi-based cosmic ray detector. The system, called Cosmic Pi, will be a distributed project with each individual system on the internet contributing to the overall readings. The core of the…
3D-printed flight case for the Raspberry Pi and SenseHAT / AstroPi
Les Pounder has been rummaging around in the CPC warehouse for components to populate a 3D-printed AstroPi flight case. So, far he’s found some cost effective buttons to poke out the top. The 3D-printed case came from RyanTeck. Ryan offers…
UnicornHAT pulses a beat to SonicPi on the Raspberry Pi
I was watching Pimoroni’s Bilge Tank today and Phil Howard mentioned that there was now a way in Ruby to run Neopixels (WS2812, I believe, I could be wrong) and therefore it wouldn’t be a stretch to get it to be…
Create your own Raspberry Pi HAT with The MagPi
The MagPi has published a tutorial that teaches you how to prototype your very own, simple Raspberry Pi HAT. They work with a breadboard to start with and go through the process of flashing the EEPROM. Read it here.
Explore an AstroPi winning entry with the Raspberry Pi website
Hannah Belshaw from Cumnor House Girls School recently won the chance to have her AstroPi project run on the International Space Station. The project records data from the AstroPi’s SenseHAT and then visualises that data inside the world of Minecraft. Martin O’Hanlon,…