PiTop is a laptop that you build yourself and contains, within it’s plastic case, a Raspberry Pi model B+. They’ve just launched their crowdfunding campaign over on IndieGoGo and they’re already going great guns with over 50% of their total…
Category: GPIO boards
Raspberry Pi RTL-SDR scanner
Adafruit has just published a great way to look at the radio signals floating around you. It uses software-defined radio (SDR) to do it via a fairly cheap dongle that plugs into one of your Pi’s USB ports. The radio waves…
Pi-Top finalises design and announces smallest Raspberry Pi robot
Pi-Top, the company behind the upcoming crowdfunding Raspberry Pi-powered laptop, have just announced that they’ve finalised their design. Speaking to 3dprint.com, they’ve also announced their expected price point, which is around $300 (Earlybird backers can expect a discount on this).…
ProtoCam – hands-on with a prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi camera
Introduction Richard Saville, also known as the Average Man, is currently running a Kickstarter campaign to fund the ProtoCam. The ProtoCam is a prototyping board onto which you can attach your Raspberry Pi camera module and then build whatever circuit you want…
Gert’s VGA GPIO adapter for the Raspberry Pi now on Kickstarter
Pi Supply has not long launched a new Kickstarter campaign that will bring Gert Van Loo’s VGA adapter to market. The adapter, which plugs into the GPIO of the Raspberry Pi Model B+ (B+ only!), will come in kit form, so…
Build a camera module project with this new Raspberry Pi prototyping board
Richard Saville, aka The Average Man, has just launched his first Kickstarter campaign. The ProtoCam is a prototyping board that plugs into the Pi’s GPIO pins and has a mounting space for the camera module. There are loads of different…
VGA GPIO adapter for the Raspberry Pi goes open source
Photo credit: Alex Eames Gert Van Loo has just open-sourced the files for a new VGA adapter that plugs into the GPIO pins of the Raspberry Pi Model B+. You can find the source files on GitHub. The adapter, which…
GPIO VGA adapter for the Raspberry Pi
Gert Van Loo, designer of the original Raspberry Pi Alpha board, has come up with a new board for the B+. It plugs into the GPIO pins and gives you a VGA port! The quality of the video output is…
Using the PiFace Control & Display board with the Raspberry Pi
Matt Hawkins has done a tutorial on getting this board to work on the Pi, including what software to install. He’s even included a sample script to show how to read the button presses and display to the screen. Head…
New LCD board Kickstarter for the Raspberry Pi
Paul Brown, who invented the MyPiFi board a few months ago and successfully funded it through Kickstarter, has come out with his second board. This time, it’s for using LCD screens. You can see the board in action below: It’s…