A few people asked me to do this, so I thought why not? I recently posted a review of the Pimoroni PianoHAT and I asked if people wanted to see a video demo of the board and it’s capabilities. Well, here you…
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WittyPi for the Raspberry Pi – video review
Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV has just published a video review of the Witty Pi power management and real-time clock board by UUGear. This £10 board gives you a real-time clock so that your Pi always has the correct time, even…
PianoHAT for the Raspberry Pi – a review
Occasionally, I get sent things in the post to review. Sometimes I buy a product just because I think it looks cool. This is one of the latter type. Update: I have added a video demo here. Introduction The original board,…
Pi Piano HATs start to be delivered – a first look
Sandy Macdonald must have ordered a Pi Piano HAT from Pimoroni on virtually the day it was released and has now written up his thoughts about the board, stepping through the example programs and detailing a way to get the…
Best wi-fi dongle for the Raspberry Pi – a group test
Alex Eames has conducted a series of field tests (okay, not in a field exactly) on three wi-fi dongles: the official Foundation dongle, a standard Edimax dongle and the dongle from The Pi Hut. He tried them out in different locations…
GPIO reference ruler for the Raspberry Pi – new Kickstarter from RasPi.TV
Like the look of that and want one already? Head over to Kickstarter! Do you find yourself constantly forgetting how to set-up the RPi.GPIO Python library? I know I do: trying to remember the correct way of doing things has…
Review of the Slice media player, powered by Raspberry Pi
Sandy Macdonald has written a comprehensive review of his recently-arrived Raspberry Pi-powered media player, the Slice. The Slice was created by Five Ninjas and inside has a Raspberry Pi Compute Module which runs OpenElec and Kodi. You can read the…
RasPi.TV does something different with mixed Mailbag video
Raspberry Pi vlogger and blogger Alex Eames over at RasPi.TV has decided to try out something different. He’s taken 6 products that he’s been sent fairly recently and done a quick ‘mailbag’ video of them. This lets us, as viewers, see…
Official Raspberry Pi case – video walk-round
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has done a nice video of the new official case that has just been launched. He shows how it all clips together and how compatible it is with HATs and other GPIO accessories such as the RasPiO Duino.…
RyanTeck Raspberry Pi Debug Clip review
Pete Taylor got a Debug Clip from the recent Kickstarter campaign run by Ryan Walmsley. He’s now put it through it’s paces by using a Windows tablet to communicate with the Pi via serial. His review can be read here.