Richard Saville (Average Man) has used one of his ProtoPal prototyping boards to create a board that houses a Nokia 5110 LCD display. He’s written a tutorial about assembling the board and installing the necessary software to use it. Great idea…
Category: GPIO boards
Word clock using a Raspberry Pi and a Unicorn HAT
Carl Monk has taken a model A+ and a Unicorn HAT add-on board and created a clock which tells the time in plain English. It does this by lighting up the Neopixels on the HAT in a specific pattern to…
New prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi B+ and A+
Richard Saville (aka The Average Man) has created a new prototyping board for use with the A+/B+. It’s called the ProtoPal and it plugs into the 40-pin +-sized GPIO pins. It has plenty of prototyping space and has two long power…
New camera prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi model B+/A+
Richard Saville, creator of the ProtoCam prototyping board, has just launched a new Kickstarter. His new board is for the + series of Raspberry Pi, with a 40-pin header, a slot for the camera module, power rails, plenty of space…
Adafruit start to launch their HATs for the Raspberry Pi
US maker store Adafruit has just started to release HATs for the Raspberry Pi B+ and A+. The one I’m featuring here is the Ultimate GPS Hat. This sits on top of your B+ or A+ and allows you to receive GPS…
Raspberry Pi GPIO Xmas Tree reaction game
Martin O’Hanlon got hold of one of Andrew Gale’s GPIO Xmas Trees and programmed it as a reaction game. Here’s how the game plays out: The game is pretty simple, random leds are lit up on the Xmas tree, the player…
Internet Meme-themed Raspberry Pi Pinball machine
Games specialists Liberty Games have taken an old Baby Doll pinball machine, refurbished it, and added a Raspberry Pi into the mix. When you activate certain features on the pinball (such as hitting a target), the signal travels to the…
Review of the Pi and Bash add-on board for the Raspberry Pi
Average Man (Richard Saville) has just posted up a review of the Pi and Bash add-on board. He very much likes the board and has given it a very balanced review. Read the review here. You can buy a Pi…
Christmas Tree kit for the Raspberry Pi
Tom Stratford backed Andrew Gale’s recent Kickstarter for a GPIO Christmas Tree. He’s now got it and he’s posted up a short build review over on his blog. Read it here. If you’d like to get hold of your own…
Review of the Gert 666 VGA adapter for the Raspberry Pi
Pi Supply are currently taking pre-orders for the VGA adapter board that they launched using a Kickstarter campaign. Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has got hold of an early one to have a play with and has blogged a quick video review…