Great news from Raspberry Pi today. They’ve now sold 10 million Raspberry Pis! In four and a half years! Not bad going, really! 😉 So, congratulations to everyone who is now, or has ever been, involved. To celebrate this, they have…
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Enviro pHAT for the Raspberry Pi reviewed by The MagPi
The MagPi have published their review of Pimoroni’s Enviro pHAT. The add-on board, which features a barometer/temperature sensor, a light/colour sensor and an accelerometer as well as several analog inputs, is given a very positive review. Read it here. The…
4tronix release new ZeroPoint Analog board – use for Raspberry Pi gauges!
Featuring a small stepper motor and an orange pointer, the new ZeroPoint board from 4tronix allows you to add a gauge to the Raspberry Pi. It has a Zero-sized form-factor and the motor is driven by an H-bridge motor controller.…
New 7-segment product for the Raspberry Pi from Average Man and The Pi Hut
Today, The Pi Hut has announced that they are selling a new product: ZeroSeg. The ZeroSeg features an 8-character 7-segment display (2 x 4-character) controlled by a MAX7219CNG chip. There are two buttons which you can custom-program to do what you…
The MagPi reviews the 4tronix Raspberry Pi Zero Motor Shim board
The MagPi has posted their review of the 4tronix Zero Motor Shim board from issue 47. The largely positive review shows just how flexible the board is, especially considering it only takes up 6 GPIO pins. You can read the…
GPIO Zero reference ruler for the Raspberry Pi – new Kickstarter
Alex Eames, of RasPiO and RasPi.TV fame has just launched his latest Kickstarter. This one is for a rather nice 30cm/12″Â ruler filled with GPIO Zero reference code, as pictured above. Alex previously did an RPi.GPIO reference ruler that was half…
10 Raspberry Pi Zero project ideas
Oh no, not another list, I hear you cry! 🙂 Well, I wrote this one, myself, for The Pi Hut. It’s a collection of projects that you can do with a Raspberry Pi Zero. Obviously, it has a bit of…
Build a spectrum analyzer with two Pimoroni pHATs and a Raspberry Pi Zero
Sandy Macdonald, one of the Pimoroni crew, has written an excellent tutorial in which he takes a pHAT DAC audio board, a Scroll pHAT and a Raspberry Pi Zero, solders them together and creates a visual spectrum analyzer. Python is used…
Get started with Grove sensors with the GrovePi-Zero
US-based Dexter Industries has just launched a new Kickstarter which aims to get you started using Grove sensors. The GrovePi-Zero is, unsurprisingly, a Zero form-factor add-on board which gives you plug-in connections for six Grove modules – 3 analog, 1…
Pimoroni’s Drum HAT for the Raspberry Pi reviewed by The MagPi
Taken from a fairly recent issue of Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi, here is a review of the Drum HAT from the wizarding pirates of the North, Pimoroni. The overall opinion is 4/5 and the board receives a great reaction…