I’ve just been browsing a little (waiting for the coffee to kick in!) and come across some SR04 distance sensor modules at Hobby Components. These are ridiculously cheap at £1.75 (inc VAT) and are very close in price to those…
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Pi Crust – Easily Connect Electronics To Your Raspberry Pi by Pi Supply — Kickstarter
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…
Set up a #RaspberryPi web kiosk
Mike Brooks has written a comprehensive tutorial on setting the Pi up as a Chromium web kiosk. As part of the next Cambridge Raspberry Jam, we’re planning on having a PayPal kiosk, and we’re hoping that these instructions will help…
Special offer at Maplin: Wireless mini keyboard with touchpad
This sweet little wireless mini keyboard with touchpad is currently on special offer at Maplin and is a mere snip at £12.99. Visit the Maplin Electronics website
#RaspberryPi now available more easily in Turkey
The Foundation has, quite rightly, been trying to get the Pi into as many countries as possible. In some European countries, import tax makes buying them from RS/Farnell cost-prohibitive. To fix this problem in Turkey, the Foundation has reached a…
RasPi.TV reviews the GPIO reference card / keyring for the #RaspberryPi
Alex has reviewed this cute little reference card over at RasPi.TV. Read the review here.
This month’s Linux User & Developer is a #RaspberryPi extravaganza
Issue 129 of Linux User and Developer magazine is a great buy for Raspberry Pi owners. It features the following articles: A 22-page special covering 10 Raspberry Pi projects “made easy” including: Media centre Portable internet radio Torrent client Time-lapse…
Pi Hut has 7 Port USB Hub on sale today
To make way for stock of a new hub, Pi Hut are selling their £10 hub for £5 at the moment. Read and buy here
#RaspberryPi and camera cases round-up
Here’s some links to some new eBay items I’ve found. They’re all cases, so if you’re not interested look away now 😉 These are presented without comment apart from description. And no, I haven’t had any free samples, these were…
Get started with #RaspberryPi and Arduino for only $12
I don’t normally promote non-Pi crowdfunding, but given how many people were interested in the Arduino at the Jam on Saturday, I wanted to show you this. It’s a project to build a non-profit Arduino Leonardo compatible board. Normally, you’d…