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…
My last post was to announce Alex Eames’ latest crowdfunding project, the Breadboard Pi Bridge. Now that the dust has settled slightly from Pi Wars 2019, I’ve had a chance to have a play with it, so I’ll give you…
Ivan Holland from CPC has been taking a look at the new PiTalk board from SB Components. The board, which was originally a successful Kickstarter campaign is a 3G-enabled mobile tele-communications solution for your Raspberry Pi. Plugged into the GPIO pins, and with…
Les Pounder has published a review of the new Pimoroni Picade retro gaming machine over at electromaker.io. It’s a comprehensive build-and-function review which looks at both good points and bad points of the kit. Read the review here.
Alex Eames, of RasPiO, has just launched his latest Kickstarter. This campaign is for the RasPiO Night Light. This one is not controlled by a Raspberry Pi, but because of that is cheaper, more stable and is pretty much plug-n-play. The…
About the product The pi-top is the pre-eminent laptop solution for Raspberry Pi users. It started life as a 2014 IndieGoGo crowdfunding campaign before being made available for retail. An improved product, the Version 2, was released in October 2017.…
A few weeks ago, I published my own review of Pi Supply’s Pi Juice. Well, now Les Pounder has got hold of the board and written up his own review. It’s a great, comprehensive and well-written review and you should…
Instructables user DrH has written up an interesting project that uses a Google AIY kit and some servos to create a robotic responder to your voice commands. You can read about the project here and see a demo video below.…
Review by Tim Richardson What is it? The Anavi Light pHAT is a board that sits on top of your Raspberry Pi and controls 12v RGB light strips – not the expensive Neopixels or WS2811’s, but the cheap RGB strips…
