Jamie Jackson has written some code that uses the weather.com API to pull a weather forecast into his Pi. He then displays it on his PiTFT using some icons he downloaded. It’s a neat little set-up that is well worth a…
Category: GPIO boards
Cheap(ish) Home Automation with the #RaspberryPi
The Foundation has just published this blog post which has Amy Mather controlling electrical sockets via a Raspberry Pi. She’s using an Energenie GPIO plugin board and extension block and controlling it via Python on the Pi. You can get…
Simple LED board for the #RaspberryPi almost funded but needs more backers
The MyPiFi board from Paul Brown is a small GPIO push-on board that gives you three LEDs and a button and is ideal for anyone who wants to a) learn to solder and b) learn to program. At just £6 (currently,…
Stop freezing pipes with the #RaspberryPi and a new #Arduino board
Alex Eames at RasPi.TV has invented a new board that plugs into the Raspberry Pi. Called a RasPiO duino, it’s programmable from the Pi and will also work away from the Pi providing it’s given a power source. He has…
Use a Wii Nunchuck on the #RaspberryPi to control a turtle
Jason Barnett has written a tutorial over on tuts+ about using a Wii Nunchuck to control the turtle library to draw lines via Python. There’s two ways of doing it: hacking directly into the circuitry of the Nunchuck or using…
Another positive review for the #RaspberryPi MyPiFi board
Paul Brown’s MyPiFi board is gaining momentum amongst the community. Average Man got hold of one of the beta boards and has reviewed it here. You can back the board on Kickstarter here
MyPiFi – simple LED board for the #RaspberryPi – Review
Paul Brown sent me one of his MyPiFi boards to assemble and try out. Here’s how I got on. The MyPiFi is a (very) small board that plugs into the GPIO pins of the Raspberry Pi. It features 3 LEDs…
Simple GPIO board for teaching soldering and using your #RaspberryPi
Paul Brown has just launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise money for his MyPiFi LED board for the Pi. It’s a very simple board that requires self-assembly (including soldering) of the through-hole components. It looks very simple to put together…
Two new add-on boards for the #RaspberryPi
LinuxGizmos.com has done a nice feature on two new add-on boards for the Pi. The first is Mikronauts’ RoboPi robot controller board and the second is the Emlid Navio which is used for auto-piloting drones. Read their coverage here.
Matboard: easy-to-use GPIO board for the #RaspberryPi from a father-and-son team
Father-and-son team Martin and Matthew Brabham have worked together to build a GPIO board for the Pi. The Matboard features 4 LEDs, 4 buttons, 4 relays, a darlington pair transistor buffer to drive the relays and buffer the inputs and a prototyping…