This must be the ultimate in well-kept secrets. The Raspberry Pi Foundation has today announced the launch of the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. Aimed at commerce/industry, rather than education or hobbyists, the Compute aims to give users the Raspberry Pi…
Category: GPIO boards
Seven Segments of Pi in the classroom (Part 5)
Another guest post from Nevil Hunt, creator of the Seven Segments of Pi Last week I talked about some of the practical barriers to using the Raspberry Pi in the Classroom with many teachers believing they needed to upgrade their…
HDMIPi beta board review from #RaspberryPi Spy
Just doing a bit of a blog on a Saturday evening and spotted Matt Hawkins’ review of the HDMIPi beta board. Definitely worth a read if you’ve either reserved one or are thinking about it. Read it here
Ciseco Pi-LITEr review
Darren Christie has done a quick review of the Pi-LITEr board from Ciseco. This little collection of LEDs, costing a massive £3, is great value and apart from a few reservations, Darren gives it the thumbs up. You can read…
Monitor your plants with PlantPi – #RaspberryPi and #Arduino working together
A group of year 11 students from Frome College have entered (and won one of the prizes) the PA Consulting Raspberry Pi inventions contest. Jake Malley, Gabriel Barnes and Alex Osbourne have linked together a Raspberry Pi and an ATMega328P-PU…
Review: UUGear 7-port USB hub for the #RaspberryPi
I was contacted by Shawn from UUGear, based in the Czech Republic, about their new 7-port hub and agreed to review it. So, here goes! The UUGear Hub features 7 ports on a circuit board that is the same size…
Seven Segments of Pi – All our monitors are VGA! (Part 4)
Last week I described how in June 2012 pupils had modified some Python Software on the Raspberry Pi to make the attached Seven Segment Display count to … …and I realised I had something which answered the pupil’s question… “Yes!…
Pi Crust – GPIO board for the #RaspberryPi – review
Tony Smith has written an in-depth review about the Pi Crust add-on board and the advantages and disadvantages of it, particularly with respect to fitting it inside a case. It’s not a particularly positive review, but it’s well-balanced. Read it…
Pi Co-op – #RaspberryPi / #Arduino add-on board review & a lie detector
The Pi Co-op is an expansion board that plugs straight onto the GPIO header and gives you immediate access to an Atmega328p microcontroller chip. Essentially, it gives you an onboard Arduino! It’s also pre-soldered which means you don’t need to…
RasPi.TV launches new product range for the #RaspberryPi
Alex Eames, over at RasPi.TV, has today launched three products for the Raspberry Pi market under the RasPiO label. They are: A port labels board (similar to other ones but nicely done) – it slips over the top of your…