The kind folks over at Wiley have sent me a few books to review and here’s the first! The Raspberry Pi User Guide couldn’t come from better stock. It’s the work of Eben Upton, co-creator of the Raspberry Pi, and…
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Pibrella GPIO board for the #RaspberryPi is now available!
Just launched today, the Pibrella is a simple GPIO add-on board for the Pi. It has on-board the following: 1 each of Red, Amber and Green LEDs. A buzzer. A button. Protected input/outputs broken out to female headers. It’s purple.…
Linux Voice magazine review from RasPi.TV
It’s always interesting when a new publication comes on the scene. Linux Voice is particularly interesting not only because it was crowdfunded, but also because of the amount of experience and writing talent behind it. Alex Eames has written a…
Book Review: Adventures in #RaspberryPi
At the December CamJam, I was lucky enough to buy a copy of Adventures in Raspberry Pi, the new book by Carrie Anne Philbin, award-winning teacher and now Education Pioneer at the Raspberry Pi Foundation. I’ve taken some time to…
piCore review – TinyCore comes to the #RaspberryPi
TinyCore is a minimal Linux distro that gives you only what you need to boot and enter a graphical user interface. Linux User and Developer magazine has done a review of the Pi version (piCore) and you can read it…
#RaspberryPi device alerts you when International Space Station is above!
Paul Brown has done an excellent, comprehensive review of a beta of Liam Kennedy’s ISS-Above device. This device, which is being funded by Kickstarter, has an LCD display that alerts you whenever the ISS is overhead and gives other information…
Fish Dish Pi from PiSupply for the #RaspberryPi
Paul Brown’s done a nice write-up and exploration of the Fish Dish expansion board over on smstext. Nice use of Daniel Bull’s BerryIO, too. Read it here
Request for help – motor controller boards for the #RaspberryPi
Hello blog readers. First of all, thanks for reading – you make writing this blog worthwhile and it’s great to hear from a few of you from time-to-time, so keep those comments coming in. Very soon, I’m going to be…
Linux Format has some #RaspberryPi related goodness this month
This month’s Linux Format (February 2014) has got a great article this month in which Les Pounder reviews some add-on boards for the Pi. Covered are: Adafruit Pi T-Cobbler Jason Barnett’s MotorPiTX The PiFace PiBorg’s XLoBorg The PiFace Control They’ve…
Scratch programming in Easy Steps – book review
Primary School teach Ian Addison has blogged a review of Sean McManus’ book “Scratch Programming in Easy Steps”. Read it here