Mark Williams from Ozzmaker has just launched a Kickstarter for the BerryIMU which is an I2C sensor board which contains an accelerometer, magnetometer and gyroscope. Now, obviously you can get those sensors separately but rarely have I seen a package this small…
Category: Accessories
Lumsing 10400mAh portable power bank review
There are many power banks out there. Some have more power in them than others, some look better than others and some perform better than others. So, it was with great trepidation that I agreed to review the Lumsing 10400mAh…
Light bar for Raspberry Pi, Arduino etc
Paul Brown of MyPiFi.net has been running Kickstarters for a while now. First of all he did a simple LED-and-button board and then moved onto a plugin board to run an LCD screen. This time, he has created a generic…
Creating a Raspberry Pi video capture unit
Matt Hawkins has now reached 150 blog posts and to celebrate this, he’s written a three-part guide to creating a video capture unit using a Raspberry Pi, suitable for mounting to your dashboard or bike. You can read the first…
Raspberry Pi camera flash ring review
Spencer (Mr UK Tech Reviews) got sent a new ‘flash ring’ by Cyntech. It’s a mounting plate for the Raspberry Pi camera module that surrounds the lens with LEDs. He’s done a short review here.
Etekcity USB 3.0 10-port hub review
I was sent one of these hubs by the manufacturer, Etekcity. What do you get? It is a 10-port USB 3.0 hub with an extra USB port that runs at 2.1A. The main part of the hub, on top, features…
Interview with Raspberry Pi (Pi-Top) laptop creators
Russell Barnes has done a great interview with the creators of the Pi Top, the Raspberry Pi laptop that you put together yourself. He interviews Ryan Dunwoody and Jesse Lozano and goes into the process behind developing and marketing the product,…
Get a Christmas tree for your Raspberry Pi and learn Charlieplexing!
Andrew Gale from Bishop’s Stortford in Hertfordshire did some great little robot soldering kits for the CamJam in September. He’s now branching out (ha-ha… oh, wait… that joke doesn’t make sense yet) into Christmas trees (see… branching out? branch… Never mind). He’s…
Use an XBox 360 wireless controller with the Raspberry Pi
Martin O’Hanlon wanted a controller for his robot and settled on an XBox 360 wireless controller. He used a £5 USB dongle for the initial communication and then wrote a script in pygame to interface to the controller. You can…
Raspberry Pi-powered pumpkin
It’s almost Halloween. Joy. Allen Heard has taken a pumpkin, a Pi and a Pibrella and mixed it with some other basic electronics to create a scary object to sit on his doorstep. Here’s a video of it and you…