Alex, over at RasPi.TV, has done an excellent overview of Pi Supply’s Pi Juice battery-on-a-HAT product. He’s put the battery through its paces and also tested out the solar panels. There’s a video review and also notes on his blog…
Recently, Jamie over at The Pi Hut sent me one of his new PS3-style controllers. I had a play, liked it and soon adapted Tom Oinn’s great Python ‘input’ library to accept commands from the controller. I also adapted one of Tom’s…
Back in March 2017, Alex Eames ran a Kickstarter for RasPiO InsPiRing, a system that enabled you to ‘sculpt lights with RGB LED shapes’. TL;DR – I got the Pyramid bundle in the Kickstarter, had great fun soldering it up and…
A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to be sent a PULSE, the new add-on board from pi-top (also available from The Pi Hut). My full review of the board is forthcoming. I’ve had a play with it, using all…
JC Torres over at SlashGear has written an excellent, extremely comprehensive review of the pi-top laptop. They go through assembling the laptop and then using the pi-topOS, including a word about the pi-topCODER and pi-topUNIVERSE. Overall, the pi-top receives an…
The MagPi has published online Phil King’s review of Pimoroni’s OctoCam from issue 59. Read it here. The kit, which is a Pi Zero, camera and sticky mount is available from Pimoroni here.
There’s a new IDE (Integrated Development Environment) on the block. Called Thonny, it has just been added into the Raspbian image. The MagPi has done a great tutorial and walkthrough of the features of the editor here. Opinion I recently…
Alex Eames has reviewed the Pimoroni Pirate Radio kit which features a Raspberry Pi Zero W. The kit, which requires assembly, costs £40 and includes the Zero W and most of the parts you need inside a nice project box.…
On Thursday, there was much excitement when The MagPi issue 57 was released to the public. The issue came bundled with a Google AIY Projects Voice Kit, including a Voice HAT, a microphone add-on board, a big arcade button, a speaker…
The MagPi has published their issue 56 review of the Western Digital PiDrive Compute Centre. The kit features a Raspberry Pi 3, a 375GB hard drive and a custom version of NOOBS (along with a keyboard and adapters) allowing you to…