Raspberry Pi For Beginners has done a review of the BerryClip add-on board from Matt Hawkins at Raspberry Pi Spy. It’s a positive review and goes through the Python examples using the Adafruit web IDE.
Category: GPIO boards
#RaspberryPi Foundation blogs about creating the camera board
David Plowman has written a guest post over at the Foundation about how the camera module was put together and how the software was worked out. Really interesting stuff. Read the article
#RaspberryPi Palm Top
Jason Birch has created a tiny-tiny standalone Raspberry Pi set-up with a 3.5″ composite LCD and an XBox Chatpad. Read about it here
#RaspberryPi playing video on 2.2″ LCD
Jeremy Blythe has written an interesting blog post on encoding video and displaying it on a 2.2″ LCD device with his Raspberry Pi. Read the post
#RaspberryPi camera module unboxing / @Raspberry_Pi
I’m chuffed to bits to say that an official Raspberry Pi camera module dropped through my letterbox today. This is a unit that the Foundation is kindly allowing me to beta test in advance of it becoming generally available to…
Micro SD card adapters for the #RaspberryPi – a review and comparison / @Raspberry_Pi
Introduction In my opinion, the weakest part of the Raspberry Pi is the use of an SD card on the board, and more specifically the way it sticks out by approx 1.5cm. Most of the cases (apart from the Cyntech…
Controlling a Slice of Pi/O with Python on the #RaspberryPi
Frank at Raspberry Alpha Omega has been experimenting with his Slice of Pi/O board. Read about his experiments here
HotPi – new board opens up infra-red / #RaspberryPi / #piday
Only available from The Pi Hut, this is the blurb for the HotPi: HotPi is a peripheral designed for your Raspberry Pi which will allow you to use any infra-red remote control, send remote control signals to other devices e.g. your…
Quick2Wire port expander review from Gadgetoid for the #RaspberryPi
Gadgetoid has written a capsule review, with examples in Ruby, of the Quick2Wire port expander board. Interesting stuff, very balanced review.
Possible faster analog to digital conversion on the #RaspberryPi
Raspberry Alpha Omega is looking into the possibility of using a Freescale Freedom development board from Farnell to take analog samples at 800,000 baud. Read more here.