A little while ago, Mihaly Krich ran a Kickstarter campaign to fund the PiConfig. It’s a little USB dongle that can be used to set-up the Raspberry Pi’s network settings from Windows or Mac. After you’ve set it up, you simply…
Category: Reviews
Nice review of the Southend Raspberry Jam last weekend
Ria Parish writes for “Love Southend” and has done a nice write-up of the Southend Raspberry Jam which took place last weekend. She gives a thorough overview of the events that took place and there’s plenty of photos to give you…
Lisiparoi Raspberry Pi camera light – Review
Lisiparoi creator Jason Barnett was kind enough to send me one to review, so here goes… Introduction The Lisiparoi is, simply, a light for your Raspberry Pi camera module. It comes in two flavours: the white Lisiparoi is for the normal…
Witty Pi – real-time clock and power management for the Raspberry Pi – Review
I was sent one of these by Shawn at UUGear for review so here goes… Information Witty Pi is a real-time clock and power management HAT for the Raspberry Pi B+, A+ and Pi 2. It has the following features:…
Review of the GoPiGo robot car for the Raspberry Pi
Rachel Gibbs over at Initial State has written an excellent review of the Dexter Industries GoPiGo robot car kit. She takes the reader through her initial impressions of the kit, her issues when assembling it and also a summary of…
Raspberry Pi for Dummies – 2nd Edition review
Back in March last year, I reviewed Raspberry Pi for Dummies by Sean McManus and Mike Cook and gave it a solid 7/10. I recently received a copy of the 2nd edition of the book and have been asked to review…
Review of the Slice Raspberry Pi media player
Here’s some great news for all your Slice backers. Smittytone has now got his and has reviewed it over on his blog. The review is highly positive and there’s really only one caveat: that you could download the software, install…
Review of the GrovePi+ starter kit for Raspberry Pi
SmittyTone has taken a look at Dexter Industries’ $90 GrovePi+ starter kit. This is an easy way to get into reading sensors on the Pi, possibly too easy as Smitty points out. Read the review here.
Great review for Adventures in Minecraft book
David Whale and Martin O’Hanlon’s “Adventures in Minecraft” is fast becoming the de-facto book for learning to program Minecraft through Python. In her ecstatic review of the book, Maryann Goldman of GeekMom.com takes us through the first few chapters which she…
4tronix Agobo review – a cheap, hackable robotics kit for the Raspberry Pi
Gareth from 4tronix was kind enough to send me one of these to review and say what I like about it. Introduction The 4tronix Agobo is a robotics kit for the Raspberry Pi model A+. It comes as a kit…