Alex Eames, over at RasPi.TV, has today launched three products for the Raspberry Pi market under the RasPiO label. They are: A port labels board (similar to other ones but nicely done) – it slips over the top of your…
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4tronix publishes a grand tour of their #RaspberryPi motor board the PiRoCon
Online retailer and innovator 4tronix have published an extensive guide to their motor controller board, the PiRoCon, detailing all the different connections and options available on the board. Well worth a look if you’re after something a bit more substantial…
Getting to grips with the PiHub and a bluetooth adapter on the #RaspberryPi
This is a quickie – just a link to a post by J A Watson on ZDNet in which he tries out the official Raspberry Pi hub and also gets a cheap bluetooth adapter working. Read it here
Build your own SatNav with a #RaspberryPi
I think I missed this when it was first published, so here we are now. Over at the excellent smstextblog, there’s a tutorial on building a SatNav using the Pi and an Adafruit LCD touch screen. Great stuff. Lots of…
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…
Turn a #RaspberryPi into an oscilloscope
Instructables user ‘tnkrmnz’ has written a tutorial on using a MSO-28 Oscilloscope with a Raspberry Pi to create a portable unit that you can connect to with your smartphone. Part of the tutorial includes turning the unit into a wifi…
#RaspberryPi-based tablet is a piece of design beauty
Michael Castor has written a great article on MakeZine about making his PiPad – a Raspberry Pi-based tablet. He used a touchscreen from Chalk Elec and then created his own, beautiful, surround for it. It all runs off a battery…
ePaper weather station with #RaspberryPi and #Arduino derivative
Jeremy Blum has hacked an open source BADGEr which is an e-paper conference badge into a weather station using a Pi. The BADGEr is an e-paper display mounted on a shield with an ATMEGA328 onboard. He wrote some new firmware…
Using an old bluetooth GPS receiver with the #RaspberryPi
Matt, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has taken an old Holux GPS module and hooked it up to his Pi using bluetooth. Read more here