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I/O Expander Board for the Pi

Here’s an interesting one. This is an I/O expansion board for the Pi that comes with a case specially designed to be used with the card attached to the Pi. Manufacturer’s site link eBay lot link From the manufacturer: The…

512MB Raspberry Pi

New units with 512MB are now being produced and sold. The original was 256MB. Raspberry Pi Foundation news article I am not best pleased about this. Apparently, the new units are being sold for the same price as the old…

Accessory Watch: RKS mdc kit

  RKS mdc Raspberry PI & Arduino Prototype Shield Self Build Kit UK Pretty good board for £6 including shipping RKSxb mdc Prototype Project Board with Rasberry PI Header – designed to be fully compatible with shield bases Main Features…

Accessory watch: PIGLET

This is the first in an ongoing series of posts about new bits of hardware I’ve spotted. There’s lots of people out there producing, normally small, breakout boards, so here’s one I spotted yesterday: PIGLET Raspberry Pi Bridge Connector Accessory

Picorder – Preparation photos

This weekend, I’m going to start assembling and cutting the shell for my new project the Picorder. Here are some photos of the shell as it currently stands. It’s a Wharfedale PDO8710 portable DVD player that wasn’t wanted any more.…

Redwing Pi goes to github!

Just created a repository for my set-up scripts (which form the backbone of my “Redwing Pi”). http://github.com/recantha/redwing-pi/ I’ve written some instructions for myself for getting existing code into a repository on Git. Here goes: First of all, go to github.com and…