New expansion board for #RaspberryPi announced by Element14 – chipKIT Pi

Just saw this on the blogosphere so thought I’d share it.

Community: chipKIT Pi - element14

Element 14/Farnell have just announced that they’re asking for people to register interest in a new product. I’ll just copy-paste in from their site:

chipKIT™ Pi (Designed for Raspberry Pi) is the latest Arduino™ compatible chipKIT™ platform from Microchip and element14. It features a 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller in a prototyping-friendly, low pin count SPDIP package. The PIC32’s performance, memory and integrated peripherals allow users to create applications including touch sensing, audio processing and advanced control. The board is supported by the free chipKIT™Multi-Platform IDE (MPIDE) that can be hosted on the Raspberry Pi.

  • Designed exclusively for the Raspberry Pi and Arduino ecosystems
  • Features a Microchip 32-bit PIC32 microcontroller (MCU) in a prototyping-friendly, low pin count SPDIP package
  • Supports the chipKIT™ Multi-Platform IDE (MPIDE)
  • MPIDE is open source and compatible with the Arduino programming language and development environment
  • Allows users to create, compile and program Arduino sketch-based chipKIT™ applications within the Raspberry Pi operating system
  • Enables the development of 3.3V Arduino compatible applications for the Raspberry Pi using PIC32 MCU

Community: chipKIT Pi - element14

There are no full tech specs out yet, but you can read more about it here

Get an e-paper display for your #RaspberryPi

2.7 inch E-paper Display | Embedded Artists AB

Sweden-based Embedded Artists are selling a 2.7″ e-paper display… and it’s compatible with the Raspberry Pi! They provide instructions and demo code to use the display.

Journalist Gareth Halfacree is currently working with the board. You can follow him on Twitter.

They’ve done a demo video here:

You can buy the display for 29 Euros, which I think is pretty good considering the support you get with it and the face that it’s also able to work with an Arduino. See it on the Embedded Artists site here