Alex Eames has now finished his series of videos about the RasPiO Duino, the great little add-on board for the Pi that gives you an ATMega chip, breakouts and a prototyping area. The last video is all about reading analog…
Category: GPIO boards
Create an internet speed analyzer with a Raspberry Pi
Vincent Willcox has taken one of Percheron Electronics’ e-paper HATs and created an internet speed analyser. He has released all the code onto GitHub so that you can re-produce his work. Take a look here. The speed scan is triggered either by…
Do you wanna build a snowman? You can with this great add-on for the Raspberry Pi
Ryan Walmsley of Ryanteck has just launched a new crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo. This one is a soldering kit in the shape of a snowman! Very cute. Earlybirds (there are still some left) are £5 + shipping, with the price then rising…
CamJam EduKit 3 for the Raspberry Pi launches soon!
Big stuff happened yesterday and I haven’t got around to blogging it until now. Myself, Tim Richardson and Jamie Mann (from The Pi Hut) have been working for months (Months, I tell you! Months!) to create the new CamJam EduKit. This one…
New LED display add-on slips over the GPIO on the Raspberry Pi – Kickstarter
David Meiklejohn from Gooligum Electronics has just launched a Kickstarter for their new add-on board called the Joey. The Joey slips over the GPIO pins (without a header – it’s all done with friction, similar to the Ryanteck Debug Clip) and sticks out…
FUZE BASIC upgraded to support the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT
Some great news for owners of the FUZE platform. An update has been released that means you can now interface with the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT using the FUZE BASIC language. The following commands have been added: senseRGBcolour – sets the active colour…
Turn the Raspberry Pi SenseHAT into an Internet of Things device
Charles Gantt has been blogging about his latest project, the Foginator 2000, over at Element 14. His latest instalment deals with taking readings from the SenseHAT and then sending them to the cloud via a service called Initial State. He’s…
Matt Richardson talks AstroPi, SenseHAT and Raspberry Pis
Here’s a quick video from Matt Richardson, the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s ‘man in the States’. In it he talks about AstroPi, the SenseHAT and sending them up into space. It’s all in aid of getting kids interested in coding. He…
Prototyping from down under – a review of the Wombat prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville, aka the Average Man, has just published his review of the Wombat Board. This board is ideal for prototyping and carries a full-sized breadboard, an analogue-to-digital converter and plenty of other bits and pieces. It was originally a…
Pimoroni focus on Raspberry Pi HATs for their second episode
The recording of Pimoroni’s Bilge Tank episode 001 is now online. This episode covers HATs; what they are, what HATs are available and what you can use them for. Take a look at the video below. As always, it leans…