In 2016, Edinburgh-based Robotical introduced their robotic platform, Marty the Robot. Successfully funded through a Crowdfunding campaign, the robot has now been updated to version 2, via another successful campaign, and is now available to buy from their online shop.…
Category: Reviews
CrowPi 2 review over on Pi My Life Up
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…
Review of the Grove Beginner Kit for Arduino from Seeed
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…
Getting a PCB Manufactured by PCBWay
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…
Save the World with Code by Lorraine Underwood – book review
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…
Review of the Kitronik Inventor’s Kit for the micro:bit by Tony Goodhew
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…
Argon ONE case for the Raspberry Pi 4 – a quick review
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…
Book review: Raspberry Pi Projects for Kids (by Dan Aldred)
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…
Red Robotics’ RedBoard+ review – a fully-featured motor controller that isn’t afraid of high power and multiple functions
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…
Book review – Learn Robotics with Raspberry Pi (by Matt Timmons-Brown)
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…