Andrew Oakley, from the Cotswold Raspberry Jam has written an excellent buyers’ guide for the coming season. He’s covered buying the Raspberry Pi initially as well as other accessories that you need to get going with your programming and hacking. Well…
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Udemy offering Raspberry Pi courses at silly discounts for one day only
Thought I’d share this with you as someone at work pointed it out. Online course provider Udemy is currently running a Black Friday offer on (presumably) all of their courses, including Raspberry Pi courses. They are offering the courses at…
New MagPi Essentials books available from The Pi Hut
I’ve just received word that 4 new MagPi Essentials books have made their way into print and are now available at The Pi Hut. The books that have been published are: Learn to Code with Scratch Hacking and Making in…
ModMyPi PiOT relay board for the Raspberry Pi reviewed by Average Man and Raspberry Pi Spy
A while back, Jacob over at ModMyPi sent me a new board – a relay board designed to be used for IoT projects. I haven’t had a chance to use it myself yet, but I would like to feature it…
Pimoroni’s Micro Dot pHAT reviewed by Raspberry Pi’s The MagPi
In this month’s issue of The MagPi (the 50th), Phil King reviews Pimoroni’s Micro Dot pHAT. This little board features 6 micro-LED matrices that can be programmed independently. Read the review here. The pHAT is available from Pimoroni, The Pi Hut and…
Pi-Top CEED Raspberry Pi platform available at lower price from CPC
CPC have just got in stock of the Pi-Top CEED, the all-in-one Pi and screen platform. For a limited time, they are selling the CEED for £89+VAT, which is £10 cheaper than normal. It’s a great deal, so if you’re in…
Pi Supply launches JustBoom – a range of audio add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi
Pi Supply have launched a massive range of audio add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. Called JustBoom, the range includes the following: DAC HAT – a plug and play, high resolution, digital-to-analog converter (£30). Digi HAT – producing an unmodified, high quality,…
Real sketching with the Raspberry Pi – Blackstripes
Jeroen van Goor and Johan ten Broeke from the Netherlands saw a V-plotter on the Polargraph website and decided that they wanted their own version to create works of art. What they came up with was Blackstripes. Powered by a Raspberry Pi…
Putting the pi-topCEED together – a short video
Stewart Dunn has done a nice walk-around and install video of the pi-topCEED. You can see it below: The pi-topCEED is the latest product from the pi-top guys and really looks like the way forward in terms of housing a…
Special offers spring up to celebrate sale of 10 million Raspberry Pis!
As I’ve just reported, there are now 10 million Raspberry Pis in the wild. To celebrate, two of my favourite stores are running sales, so take advantage of them now before you lose out! The Pi Hut is selling the Raspberry…