Rob Boyle sent me a Pi & Bash to have a play with, so I thought I’d write up my experience into a sort-of review. Introduction The Pi & Bash is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. It comes…
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Capacitive touch HAT for the Raspberry Pi
Adafruit have just made available to buy a new HAT add-on board. It has pads for up to 12 touch devices (you can use fruit!) and plugs nicely into the GPIO, just as any HAT should. You can read more and…
New prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi B+ and A+
Richard Saville (aka The Average Man) has created a new prototyping board for use with the A+/B+. It’s called the ProtoPal and it plugs into the 40-pin +-sized GPIO pins. It has plenty of prototyping space and has two long power…
Adafruit start to launch their HATs for the Raspberry Pi
US maker store Adafruit has just started to release HATs for the Raspberry Pi B+ and A+. The one I’m featuring here is the Ultimate GPS Hat. This sits on top of your B+ or A+ and allows you to receive GPS…
Christmas Shopping Guide from the Raspberry Pi Foundation
The Foundation have posted a lovely Christmas Shopping Guide over on their blog. They cover Raspberry Pi kits, books, add-on boards and electronics kits. There’s even a great mention of the CamJam EduKits 🙂 Take a look at the guide…
New CamJam EduKit for the Raspberry Pi – Sensors!
Myself, Tim Richardson and Jamie Mann from The Pi Hut have teamed up again to bring a low-cost electronics kit to market. Following the international success of the first CamJam EduKit, we wanted to produce something more advanced, but still…
FUZE with Raspberry Pi goes retro with new-look special edition
The makers of FUZE, the hard-wearing, all-in-one Raspberry Pi computer, have just launched a special edition. Called the T2-SE, this has everything their normal T2 has, including a breakout board that gives you not only normal, digital input/output but analogue input…
Christmas Tree kit for the Raspberry Pi
Tom Stratford backed Andrew Gale’s recent Kickstarter for a GPIO Christmas Tree. He’s now got it and he’s posted up a short build review over on his blog. Read it here. If you’d like to get hold of your own…
PiBorg launch new Raspberry Pi-powered robot
Cambridgeshire-based PiBorg have just announced a new product. Say hello to the Diddyborg – Doodleborg’s younger brother. Here’s a picture of Doodleborg for comparison: Here are some of the specs of the Diddyborg from their site. Chassis: Robust Laser cut…
Adventures in Minecraft book for Raspberry Pi owners launched
Martin O’Hanlon has just announced the launch and availability of the book he wrote, together with David Whale, called Adventures in Minecraft. Taking inspiration from the style and content of Carrie Anne Philbin’s book Adventures in Raspberry Pi, this book…