Absolutely gorgeous new product from Adafruit. A proto-board that looks like a breadboard but with a GPIO header socket on the side. Fantastic idea, and the price (just under $8) is very attractive to hobbyists. Hopefully Phenoptix will get it…
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USB Tester from MobileWill / Fried Circuits
Great little product for testing USB device voltage levels. MobileWill: Our First Product: USB Tester.
e-Health Sensor Platform for Arduino and Raspberry Pi
Fantastic new product from Cooking Hacks. Quite pricey at 290 euros, but so many practical applications! The e-Health Sensor Shield allows Arduino and Raspberry Pi users to perform biometric and medical applications where body monitoring is needed by using 9…
Combined RSS feed aggregator
My apologies for the delay. I have re-created the Raspberry Pi combined RSS aggregate feed. Please remove your previous subscriptions and re-subscribe to this feed. http://www.google.com/reader/public/atom/user%2F10025320280437270102%2Flabel%2FRaspberryPi. A comment on this post from those using it would be greatly appreciated. Just in…
Raspberry Pi / Android app to remote control a car (reblog plus re-format)
“doctoboggan” has created a project with a Raspberry Pi and Android App working in tandem to drive a remote control car. Original article here: Show HN: I built a Raspberry Pi/Android driven toy car | Hacker News but reblogging to include the…
John Jay’s 8 LED & Button Breakout Board
Here are some details about a little expansion board from John Jay featuring 8 LEDs and 8 switches. Designed to sit on top of the Pi, directly into the GPIO pins. home automation – D.I.Y. Home Automation Projects – Raspberry…
Review: Starter Kit A for Raspberry Pi (reblog)
Computer Active has done a review of SK Pang’s starter kit A. I apologise in advance for linking to something which has a video playing without asking. Poor show, Computer Active, poor show. Review: Starter Kit A for Raspberry Pi –…
Beginners : Preparing an SD Card for your RPi (by Adafruit)
Great tutorial on setting up your SD card for your new Raspberry Pi, or for those people who keep forgetting how to do it! Overview | Adafruit’s Raspberry Pi Lesson 1. Preparing an SD Card for your Raspberry Pi |…
Frustration with the MCP3008 ADC
I don’t often vent my spleen on my blog. This time, however, my frustration has boiled over. I’ve been trying to get an analog to digital converter working with my Pi. Now, I should say going into this I’m not…
Picorder and a Proto-Plate – project update
The Picorder project has been progressing, albeit slowly. So far, I’ve managed to add the following items to my Pi: a 16×2 LCD board a TMP102 temperature sensor an SR-04 ultrasonic distance sensor Coming up is my first foray into analog-to-digital…