Accessories, Competitions

Raspberry Pi Zero and other stuff Christmas giveaway

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Hi everyone!

It’s Christmas! Everyone likes to get something for Christmas, so I thought it would be nice to do a blog give-away. I’m doing this in the form of a questionnaire, so it’s easy to get responses through.

What am I giving away? Well, to one lucky winner, I will be giving away the following:

  • a Raspberry Pi Zero – the cute little board itself.
  • an Essential Raspberry Pi Zero Kit (from The Pi Hut) – everything you need in terms of adapters and headers plus some handy rubber feet. And it comes in a tin. Everyone likes tins 🙂
  • a RasPiO GPIO Ruler – an easy guide to using GPIO with the Raspberry Pi… and it’s a ruler. (Here’s a link to my pre-production sample review. Short version: 10/10, I love it)

Now, I can’t guarantee it will reach you by Christmas, especially if you’re non-UK, but I will get the package sent out on Saturday morning.

So, how do you enter? Easy, you fill in this form. The winner will be selected at random, hopefully by a Raspberry Pi (if I get round to it, via some other kind of randomised jiggery pokery if not).

Don’t worry, I won’t use your contact details or pass them on!

The give-away closes on Saturday, 19th December at 8am.

Photo of the Zero & ruler, credit: Alex Eames

Accessories, Games, GPIO boards, Making, Programming

Raspberry Pi DOTs boards now available

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The DOTs board, designed by the Foundation’s Rachel Rayns, is now available to buy online. The board, which uses conductive paint in a dot-to-dot fashion, is supplied with a plugin for Minecraft Pi Edition which will draw the outline of the aeroplane shown on the board. You can also use the board to create games and example code is supplied to get you going.

The Pi Hut is the exclusive supplier of the boards. For a single one, the price is £5. There are also great discounts if you want to buy more than 30 or more than 100 of them for schools and conferences. The paint that you’ll need is a little on the expensive side but it pays to buy the larger pot if you’re going to be using it with multiple people.

Read more about DOTs here.

Accessories, Geeky Techiness, Making

Run a Raspberry Pi from a LiPo battery

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Daniel Bull has written up some excellent instructions for wiring up and soldering an Adafruit PowerBoost LiPo charger onto a Raspberry Pi. He’s used a Zero for this initial hack but you should be able to use any Raspberry Pi (the lower-powered the better). The instructions are available on GitHub and to talk to Daniel, get advice on implementing it and to discuss his approach, you can use this G+ post. It’s a brilliant hack, especially as the PowerBoost has a charging circuit built in to give you a self-contained system.

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Montreal user group for the Raspberry Pi – people wanted!

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Christophe Reverd has been in touch about setting up a user group for Raspberry Pi enthusiasts in Montreal, Canada. So, I’m putting out a big call for anyone in the area to get in contact with him about it. There’s a Facebook group and a Twitter account already set up, and if anyone wants to get in contact via email, please email me first (mike@recantha.co.uk). There is also a Google Form to fill in (which is in French) Although the group is predominantly French-speaking, English speakers are also very welcome!