BenCao74 has been working on a GPIO board called the PiJamma. It’s been designed to make it simple to connect retro gaming hardware to the Pi. Take a look at his latest arcade box.
Category: GPIO boards
Drive a scrolling LED badge from a #RaspberryPi
Dave Akerman (of high-altitude ballooning/Babbage Bear fame) has taken apart a £13 LED badge, re-soldered some of the connections and written some nifty script in C to create a status display for his ballooning flights. Read more here
ScratchGPIO gets support for the Pibrella #RaspberryPi add-on board
Simon Walters (@cymplecy) has been beavering away at his ScratchGPIO software. This software brings GPIO support to Scratch so that you can use LEDs and, now, expansion boards from the popular visual programming environment. The latest board to receive support…
Gertduino brings Arduino to #RaspberryPi… again
Gert had told me back in July that he was working on this and I’m pleased to say that it’s finally found it’s way to market. The Gertduino is a Raspberry-Pi add-on which offers the same functionality as an Arduino-Uno…
Festive fun with the PiRingo LED board for the #RaspberryPi
Just in time for Christmas, ebay and Amazon seller 4tronix have developed a cute little GPIO add-on board for the Pi. It has a ring of LEDs and two switches meaning you can use it in a PiGlow-type way but…
New Motor Controller Board Kit for the #RaspberryPi
Ryan Walmsley, the programmer behind rastrack.co.uk, co-editor of Pi Weekly and organiser of the Stevenage Raspberry Jam has moved into the hardware arena with his Motor Controller Board. The budget-priced board is designed to do one thing, and do it…
#RaspberryPi tutorial video – analog inputs
Fraser May has created his third tutorial video. This time he uses the MCP3004 analog-to-digital converter to show how you can add analog inputs to your Pi.
Review of the PiFace Control and Display for the #RaspberryPi
Frank’s got his hands on the £21 PiFace Command and Control GPIO board and has given it a thorough test out. He’s blogged about his experiences and the pros and cons of the board. You apparently have to go looking…
Wolfson Pi Audio Card for #RaspberryPi
Doug McFarlan at Wolfson has been leading a team to develop an audio card for the Pi in conjunction with Element 14/Farnell. The card, which plugs into the GPIO, features the following: 3.5 mm jack (4-pole) for a headset/boom mic…
Affordable HDMI high definition screen for the #RaspberryPi
Alex Eames of RasPi.TV and Dave Mellor of Cyntech have teamed up to create a new Kickstarter for a cheap HDMI-capable screen, primarily for the Raspberry Pi. This is one of the best campaigns for Pi hardware I’ve seen –…