The Pi-Face has been out for a while. Pete Taylor has been looking at one of the boards and has done a quick review. Read it here
Category: GPIO boards
Use the ultimate GPS breakout board with the #RaspberryPi
Martin O’Hanlon has blogged a great tutorial that shows you how to get set-up with the ultimate GPS breakout board from Adafruit. The board is available from many of the shops listed in the column on the right. Read the…
Programming the Pico PiDuino from the #RaspberryPi
This is the second part in Phil Howard’s guide to creating and programming a £5 Arduino companion for your Pi. Read the guide here Part one of the guide is available here
Review of the Pi-Pan pan and tilt control for the #RaspberryPi camera
Mark Williams managed to get his hands on a prototype version of the Pi-Pan from MindSensors. MindSensors recently had a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund the Pi-Pan. On his blog, Mark has reviewed the prototype and describes it in some…
Build an Arduino compatible device for £5 and connect it to the #RaspberryPi
Phil Howard runs a website called Gadgetoid and runs a Raspberry Pi blog on a Pi itself. He’s written an extensive guide on creating something called a Pico PiDuino. It’s a little Arduino-compatible device with an ATmega 328 at it’s…
Cheap wireless communication between a #RaspberryPi and an #Arduino
Conor O’Neill has worked out how to get the Arduino and the Pi communicating wirelessly using some cheap nRF24L01+ modules. These things cost all of 1.26 Euros and seem like a great addition to your electronics kit. Read more here
Public transport tracking with a dot-matrix wall board and a #RaspberryPi
Pavel Shved had a problem. He was always late for the bus. So, he found one of those dot-matrix wall-boards… wired it up to a Raspberry Pi, wrote some code to grab and display information from the internet about bus…
RasPi.tv shows how to use the PiGlow for #RaspberryPi with GPIO control
The PiGlow is a lovely little GPIO board from Pimoroni which features three arms of ultra-bright LEDs. Alex over at RasPi.tv has put it together with his own circuit board and, in his new video, shows us how to control…
Using a Nokia 5110 LCD screen as a #RaspberryPi temperature monitor
Just a quick blog – Bart Bania has blogged about getting a small Nokia 5110 LCD screen to work with the Raspberry Pi and lots and lots of resistors 🙂 Read all about it here
New kit launched – RasWIK, the #RaspberryPi Wireless Inventors Kit
I have no affiliation, connection or arrangement with Ciseco, apart from meeting them at a recent Jam and talking to them about this product since then. Ciseco, who attended July’s Cambridge Raspberry Jam and will be making an appearance…