Carrie Anne’s been wanting to learn to solder for a while. She’s now learnt how to do it and has made this great video that teaches you which end of the soldering iron is which and how to make good…
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Using the PiFace Control & Display board with the Raspberry Pi
Matt Hawkins has done a tutorial on getting this board to work on the Pi, including what software to install. He’s even included a sample script to show how to read the button presses and display to the screen. Head…
Hacking Big Trak with the Raspberry Pi – podcast
Russell Barnes has conducted an interview with engineer Leo White about his projects involving kids’ toy BigTrak. You can listen to the podcast here.
Switching control with the Raspberry Pi and a Darlington Array
Here’s a good video of how to use a Darlington Array with the Pi to do switching.
Mini speaker from The Pi Hut – review
The Pi Hut have just launched their mini speaker, which has been modded from a standard model especially for the Pi. It comes in a really nice box (below). It comes with a 3.5mm audio cable to plug in to the…
Founder of Raspberry Jams nominated for Digital Award – vote now!
Alan O’Donohoe, who started the Raspberry Jam phenomenon, and is just a generally good man and nice chap has been nominated for the Volunteer Digital Hero category of the TalkTalk Digital Heroes Awards. I can’t say enough good stuff about Alan. Without…
New Raspberry Jam in Croydon, UK for Raspberry Pi owners
Jarle Teigland has been working tirelessly to set-up a new Raspberry Jam in Croydon, south of the City of London. He’s secured a great venue at LivesNotKnives (pictured below) and the first one will be on Saturday, 25th October from 12-4pm. Tickets…
New LCD board Kickstarter for the Raspberry Pi
Paul Brown, who invented the MyPiFi board a few months ago and successfully funded it through Kickstarter, has come out with his second board. This time, it’s for using LCD screens. You can see the board in action below: It’s…
10% off sale at The Pi Hut this weekend – get Raspberry Pi goodies!
Just noticed this over at The Pi Hut. They’ve got a 10%-off-everything sale going on this bank holiday weekend. That means you can, for example, get a CamJam EduKit for the amazing price of £4.50 and one of those fancy…
Speaker from the PiHut for the Raspberry Pi over at RasPi.TV
Alex Eames got hold of a new speaker from The Pi Hut and has done a review video over on his site, RasPi.TV. Read and watch the video here. My review of the speaker will appear on my blog this weekend.…