I monitor a lot of things for posts related to the Raspberry Pi and this one popped up on my Google Search alerts. I decided to pitch into the conversation to point the poster in the right direction. Here’s the…
Category: Accessories
Adafruit Perma-Proto Raspberry Pi Breadboard PCB Kit
Absolutely gorgeous new product from Adafruit. A proto-board that looks like a breadboard but with a GPIO header socket on the side. Fantastic idea, and the price (just under $8) is very attractive to hobbyists. Hopefully Phenoptix will get it…
USB Tester from MobileWill / Fried Circuits
Great little product for testing USB device voltage levels. MobileWill: Our First Product: USB Tester.
e-Health Sensor Platform for Arduino and Raspberry Pi
Fantastic new product from Cooking Hacks. Quite pricey at 290 euros, but so many practical applications! The e-Health Sensor Shield allows Arduino and Raspberry Pi users to perform biometric and medical applications where body monitoring is needed by using 9…
John Jay’s 8 LED & Button Breakout Board
Here are some details about a little expansion board from John Jay featuring 8 LEDs and 8 switches. Designed to sit on top of the Pi, directly into the GPIO pins. home automation – D.I.Y. Home Automation Projects – Raspberry…
Review: Starter Kit A for Raspberry Pi (reblog)
Computer Active has done a review of SK Pang’s starter kit A. I apologise in advance for linking to something which has a video playing without asking. Poor show, Computer Active, poor show. Review: Starter Kit A for Raspberry Pi –…
RasPi.TV – Review of ModMyPi case
Alex has done a comprehensive review of the ubiquitous (and most cost-effective) ModMyPi case over on his site. Review of ModMyPi case for the Raspberry Pi » RasPi.tv.
Getting started with Databases on the Pi with SQLite (reblog)
An excellent step-by-step blog post about installing and using SQLite. Further blog posts will cover how to use the database in PHP. I’ll be keeping an eye on this in my quest to learn my way around PHP! An Unofficial…
I just won a Dreamer Nano!
I just won a Dreamer Nano v4.0 over at Will Garrido’s blog MobileWill! (And I never win _anything_! The last thing I won was a Space LEGO set back in the 1980s!) The Dreamer Nano V4.0 is a surface mount breadboard…
Login terminal over USB/serial link to Jornada 680
The aim To operate the Raspberry Pi using a Jornada 680 (pictured, left) as a dumb terminal. The solution The Jornada 680 has a cable for sync-ing to Windows, the end of which terminates with a serial connector. Now, as…