GPIO boards, Shopping

Pi Crust – Easily Connect Electronics To Your Raspberry Pi by Pi Supply — Kickstarter

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The PiCrust is a lovely little board that sits on top of the GPIO pins and breaks out the pins into sensible groups. I’ve got three myself and they’re really handy for prototyping circuits.

Pi-and-bits supplier “Pi Supply” is running a Kickstarter campaign to raise funds to produce Joe Walnes PiCrust in the UK. You can see Joe’s site here.

The Kickstarter campaign is running for 4 more days and you can get hold of a Crust for £13. You can also place a pre-order for a Crust for £14 from their website.

Cases, Emulation, Geeky Techiness

The World’s smallest Mac has a #RaspberryPi under the hood

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I spotted this a day before the Foundation posted about it, but I just couldn’t believe that it was Pi related. It’s a tiny tiny tiny Mac, or rather it looks like a Mac but it’s actually a stylish case with a Pi running Raspbian and a Mac emulator. It’s the brainchild of John Leake. You can read his original post on his own blog and it was also covered by Adam Rosen over at Cult of Mac.

Here’s the interior… I’ve seen some hacks in my time but take a look at this! Read John’s original blog post for a description of the bits and pieces.

Read the article over at the Foundation or watch the video below.

Competitions

#RaspberryPi takes 100,000 Euro INDEX prize

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The Raspberry Pi has won the Play category of the INDEX prize, netting the Foundation a 100,000 Euro prize. The money will be spent on hiring two new employees to further their educational aims. Big congratulations to the Foundation for this – the Pi is becoming so well known now and it’s through the efforts of all concerned that this is so.

Read this piece from CNN for more information