Michael Leonard has blogged a comparison of the Pi and the Beaglebone Black. Once again the spectre of ‘open-ness’ appears again, which is just starting to get tiresome. Apart from that aspect though, it’s a good article. Some of the…
Category: Reviews
Pidora and Python on the #RaspberryPi – a quick look
Francois Dion has been looking at the Pidora distro and seeing if Python will work on it. In short, it doesn’t totally work yet, but have a read of his blog post to hear more about it.
EmbeddedPi for the #RaspberryPi review and guide
Ryan Walmsley has written a three-part series about the new EmbeddedPi expansion board from element14. Read it here
Review of RAVPower 10400mAh battery pack with a #RaspberryPi
Raspberry Pi Spy’s Matt has reviewed this powerful portable battery pack. Read the review
BeagleBone Black vs the #RaspberryPi (again)
Chris Swan has written a very balanced review of the BeagleBone Black and compared it to the Raspberry Pi on various criteria. It’s a great blog post that only falls down at the end when he concludes that the success…
RasPi.TV reviews the FLIRC USB IR dongle for #RaspberryPi
The FLIRC is a programmable USB dongle that allows you to use any infrared remote you’ve got lying about with a Raspberry Pi media centre. This includes XBMC, OpenELEC, RaspBMC and possibly XBian. Alex over at RasPi.TV has reviewed it. Read…
#RaspberryPi vs the BeagleBone Black video
YouTube blogger Matt, aka TheRaspberryPiGuy, has done a great comparison of the BeagleBone Black and the Raspberry Pi. It’s very well balanced and impartial. He covers all the pros and cons of both devices.
RasPi.TV reviews two battery packs for the #RaspberryPi from RS Components
Alex Eames has been testing two USB battery packs from RS Components. The two packs (costing £13.50/£26+VAT) allow you to plug in a USB cable to power your Pi. He has tested them to find out how long they last.…
Product review: a Slice of Pi for #RaspberryPi
Oxford-based Peter Haban has done a mini-review of the Slice of Pi GPIO breakout board. Seems like a very useful little board. Read the review
Testing the #RaspberryPi camera automatic exposure settings
Alex over at RasPi.TV has created a script to test the automatic exposure compensation of the official camera module. A video of the output from the script is available on the RasPi.TV website.