Emmet, over at Pi My Life Up, has received a review unit of the Elecrow CrowPi 2, the STEM educational laptop featuring the Raspberry Pi. I previously covered the launch of their Kickstarter in this blog post. He has taken…
I was sent a review unit of Seeed Studio’s Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino to try out and give my honest opinion. So, here it is! (You can also buy from Amazon UK here). What’s included? As you can see…
A guest post from my close friend, Tim Richardson, on his efforts to get his very own PCB designed and manufactured with Chinese company PCBWay. Recently, I decided to design a couple of PCBs for the Raspberry Pi, something that…
From Lorraine Underwood, care of McGraw Hill Publishing, comes this project book which promises to “engage kids with coding and making”. It includes 20 projects using a Raspberry Pi, micro:bit and/or the Circuit Playground Express – making it the first…
Tony Goodhew has done an extensive, exhaustive and detailed review of the Inventor’s Kit for micro:bit from Kitronik over on the Element 14 website. The kit contains everything you need to get going with the micro:bit including a base board…
Hi everybody. I bought this case the other day for my media centre Raspberry Pi running downstairs in the lounge. The previous case (one of those all-metal all-heatsink jobbies) looked a bit out-of-place, so I decided to go for the…
I was sent a review copy of this book by No Starch, but I can say what I like 🙂 The author According to the blurb in the first couple of pages, Dan Aldred is a Computer Science teacher, freelance…
Neil Lambeth, of Red Robotics has recently released his first motor controller board for the Raspberry Pi. “Oh, not another one!” I hear you cry… Well, hold up there – this is one to pay attention to and it’s not…
Sometimes, a book comes along that exceeds your expectations. When I saw that Matt Timmons Brown (“The Raspberry Pi Guy”) had teamed up with No Starch Press and that he had a very well-known and respected (though he’d never admit…
Back in 2014, robotics specialist 4tronix released the Pi2Go and the Pi2Go Lite, great robotics kits using PCBs as the robot chassis, surrounding a Raspberry Pi. Now, 5 years (and many products, including this year’s Pi Wars badge!) later, Gareth…
