4tronix are now offering a new motor controller board called the MicRoCon. I got one of these in the post the other day and I’ve soldered it together (very easy) but not had the chance to play with it yet.…
Category: GPIO boards
Horse racing game with the #RaspberryPi and the BerryClip
Jim Flewker has taken a BerryClip and written a horse-racing game for it. This board is great for a beginner (I’ve got one myself and it was the first thing I soldered successfully) and has 6 LEDs, a buzzer and…
4tronix publishes a grand tour of their #RaspberryPi motor board the PiRoCon
Online retailer and innovator 4tronix have published an extensive guide to their motor controller board, the PiRoCon, detailing all the different connections and options available on the board. Well worth a look if you’re after something a bit more substantial…
Unite Arduino shields and the #RaspberryPi with the Arduberry
Dexter Industries, creators of the excellent BrickPi and GrovePi have started a Kickstarter to raise funds for the “Arduberry”. Here is some blurb from the KS campaign page: The Arduberry is a simple and inexpensive way to bring Arduino shields…
Linux Format has some #RaspberryPi related goodness this month
This month’s Linux Format (February 2014) has got a great article this month in which Les Pounder reviews some add-on boards for the Pi. Covered are: Adafruit Pi T-Cobbler Jason Barnett’s MotorPiTX The PiFace PiBorg’s XLoBorg The PiFace Control They’ve…
Use an OLED display with the #RaspberryPi courtesy of @RaspberryPiGuy1 and @Adafruit
Matthew Timmons-Brown (who presented the brilliant keynote at the last CamJam and runs his own YouTube channel) has written an excellent tutorial on using tiny OLED displays with the Raspberry Pi. Read the tutorial here
Use the PiGlow on the #RaspberryPi with RISCOS
Leo White has been working on getting the Pimoroni PiGlow working with RISCOS. He’s managed it and has posted the BASIC code up so that everyone can do it! This opens up a whole world of opportunity for RISCOS on…
ePaper weather station with #RaspberryPi and #Arduino derivative
Jeremy Blum has hacked an open source BADGEr which is an e-paper conference badge into a weather station using a Pi. The BADGEr is an e-paper display mounted on a shield with an ATMEGA328 onboard. He wrote some new firmware…
Easily connect sensors to your #RaspberryPi with GrovePi
Dexter Industries (who previously developed BrickPi, a LEGO-Mindstorms interface board) are bringing out GrovePi. GrovePi is an add-on board that plugs into the GPIO pins and allows you to use Grove Sensors from SeeedStudio. These are little modules with a…
Quick, positive review of @cisecoplc RasWIK on the #RaspberryPi
@smstext got a RasWIK (Wireless Inventor’s Kit) for Christmas and has been doing some experiments with it. He’s written a short, but positive review of the kit here.