Ryan Walmsley, creator of Rastrack and co-editor of Pi Weekly (and constant CamJam attendee!), has had a great success with his RTK motor controller board and has now branched out into a full beginners robot kit. The kit includes almost…
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Mobile 24/7 power for your #RaspberryPi – a Kickstarter
Just a quick post to publicise a Kickstarter. This one is an add-on board for the Pi that allows you to connect up a wide variety of power sources. It allows you to connect multiple power sources to provide UPS…
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.…
New series on Python and the GPIO from #RaspberryPi IV Beginners
Matt Manning is busy writing a series on using the GPIO pins from Python. This exciting series will use a variety of different components wired up on a breadboard to do projects including the following: Turning on LEDs Blinking LEDs…
Adventures in #RaspberryPi – get the book for cheap-as-chips price!
Photo from the Raspberry Pi Foundation (I hope no-one minds me hot-linking to it!) Fantastic news from the Raspberry Pi Foundation today. They’ve purchased a pallet full of Carrie Anne Philbin’s book “Adventures in Raspberry Pi”. They’ve made it available…
New #RaspberryPi budget motor controller boards available from @4tronix_uk
4tronix are now offering a new motor controller board called the MicRoCon. I got one of these in the post the other day and I’ve soldered it together (very easy) but not had the chance to play with it yet.…
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…
#RaspberryPi Foundation start selling their own 8GB SD cards!
After a short delay, the Foundation has just announced that they’re now selling 8GB SD cards with NOOBS installed on their Swag store. And the best news is they only cost £4 + postage (which is £1 if you’re not…
Review of the U-Create #RaspberryPi starter kit
James Floyd Kelly has been sent the new £99 U-Create Raspberry Pi Deluxe All-In-One Starter Kit that is available from CPC/Farnell. He’s given it a very positive review which you can read here. It contains everything you need to get…
New book – #RaspberryPi for Secret Agents
Stefan Sjogelid has written a new Pi book. Now, I haven’t seen the book apart from the listing on the Wiley site, but just the title alone was so cool I had to feature it on the blog! You can…