Manufacturer: Cyntech.co.uk Supplier: NewIT.co.uk Price: £7 (approx) + 99p for SD card slot cover Rating: 7.5/10 UPDATE: There is now a cover for the SD card slot available. As this was the key impractical aspect of the case, I revise…
Category: Accessories
ModMyPi Case for #RaspberryPi – Review
Supplier: ModMyPi Price: £2.99 – £5.99 (plus delivery) Rating: 6/10 Another case review. This is for the widely-available ModMyPi case. I purchased two of these cases for £2.99 each. They were ‘GAMBLE Mix N Match‘ cases which means I did…
Robot Arm with the #RaspberryPi
Not a particularly new idea, but still interesting nonetheless. Matt Dyson has got the Raspberry Pi and a robotic arm bring controlled by an XBox 360 controller. I believe this is the same robot arm that Maplin are selling in…
SB Components #RaspberryPi case review
Supplier: SB Components (via eBay) Date of purchase: 4th January 2013 Price: £4.79 (inc VAT & postage) Delivery: 9th January 2013 Rating: 9/10 I spotted this post on the Raspberry Pi Foundation forum and thought I’d take a look at this…
LapPi – A Raspberry Pi Netbook
An alternative to the standard Motorola Lapdock modification is this laptop-in-a-case! Great Instructable. Requires the Raspy Juice expansion board, though. LapPi – A Raspberry Pi Netbook.
Getting To Know Your Gertboard [reblog]
Great article over at TechFruits – a guided tour of the Gertboard. The Gertboard: Lesson 1 – Getting To Know Your Gertboard.
Stepper Motor Control & Breakout Board
How to use a breakout board specifically designed for stepper motors. home automation – D.I.Y. Home Automation Projects – Raspberry Pi – Stepper Motor Control & Breakout Board.
Sweetbox – most impractical case ever?
I don’t normally criticise cases on my blog, but this one caught my eye. Sweetbox _ The perfect case for your Raspberry Pi computer by Grasping hand — Kickstarter. There are so many reasons why this case is a dead-loss:…
Paper-Duino Pi – Arduino shield for the Pi
The Paper-Duino-Pi is an Arduino shield for the Raspberry Pi. Due to the fact that it is designed as Paper-PCB it is easy to create and one doesn’t need a printed circuit board. All components are standard electronic parts that…
Interface board for Olimex UEXT modules for Raspberry Pi
Olimex have brought out a new board which allows the Raspberry Pi to have access to UEXT modules like Relay modules, Thermocouple sensor modules, 3-axis magnetometer and accelerometers, Zigbee, WiFi, GSM, GPS etc. You can purchase one here: RPi-UEXT. This is…