Every year, Spencer Organ tries to make something Christmassy to make his house more festive, and to show off at various events he attends. This year, he 3D-printed a plastic house and placed it inside a snow globe bell jar.…
Richard Saville (Average Man) has been busy for the past 13 months, what with his new house and new baby. Well, he’s back with a review of the UUGear Witty Pi 2. This power management board has: an on-off switch…
Computer engineering student Shoyu has created a four-legged insect robot which uses a Raspberry Pi 3 and an IO Expander Board to control the servos. He’s added a Camera Module and then created a control interface that can be used…
Just recently launched on Kickstarter, Pip is a portable “digital creation” device based around the Raspberry Pi Compute Module. Let’s take a look at the product, and I’ll give you my opinion at the end. Hardware The Pip is based…
Alex Eames of RasPi.TV fame has run several excellent crowdfunding campaigns on Kickstarter, normally delivering ahead of time and providing lots of communication along the way. His latest is for the RasPiO FullpHAT and he’s running it as a 7-day campaign from his…
The PiSupply PiJuice is finally here! What is the PiJuice? It’s a battery power pack HAT for your Raspberry Pi. The Review Tim Richardson (@Geeky_Tim) has joined me on this review to give his insight, so we’ll be moving back…
The GoPiGo 3 is the newest iteration of Dexter Industries‘ robotics kit. The US-based company was kind enough to send me one over for review a few weeks ago and I’m pleased to say I’ve now put it together and…
Following a successful Kickstarter, Mime Industries are now starting to deliver their interesting robotic arm kit, the MeArm Pi, an update to their previous MeArm. The new kit comes with a HAT to control the arm via two mini joysticks…
Michael Darby wanted to create an “artificial life” project. So, he took a Raspberry Pi 3 and a Unicorn HAT and created a Python script to do it. He had the following goals: Create a number of artificial lifeforms that can move…
Alex, over at RasPi.TV, has done an excellent overview of Pi Supply’s Pi Juice battery-on-a-HAT product. He’s put the battery through its paces and also tested out the solar panels. There’s a video review and also notes on his blog…
