Allo.com is an Indian company trying to break into the Raspberry Pi audiophile market. They recently sent me a selection of the boards to try out. I’ve not quite gotten around to it yet – I’ve been too busy with…
Category: Reviews
Pimoroni Pan-Tilt HAT review from Raspberry Pi magazine The MagPi
Over at The MagPi, they’ve posted a review of the Pimoroni Pan-Tilt HAT. It’s an add-on board kit for the Raspberry Pi which comes with the HAT itself, two servos and an articulated arm that sits on top of the…
Pimoroni solderless headers for the Raspberry Pi reviewed
Jenny List over at Hackaday recently posted about the Pimoroni solderless headers. Met with a certain amount of resistance and skepticism from the Hackaday crowd as to the suitability of both the method of hammering in the pins and their…
NatureBytes Raspberry Pi-powered nature camera comes to The Pi Hut
The MagPi reviews media centre operating system LibreElec 7.0
The bods over at The MagPi have just published a comprehensive review of media centre OS LibreElec. They compare it to other OSs like OpenElec and OSMC and find that it comes up trumps in terms of speed and ease-of-use.…
JustBoom AmpHAT audio board for the Raspberry Pi – a review
Yesterday afternoon, I had great fun setting up the JustBoom AmpHAT. JustBoom is a new player in the Raspberry Pi audio market, but comes from well-known company Pi Supply. I was sent the full family of JustBoom boards for review by Aaron, but…
Comparison of sound card DACs for the Raspberry Pi from RasPi.TV
Alex Eames from RasPi.TV has tested out some sound cards from IQaudIO, JustBoom, and HiFiBerry. What’s great about his review is that he’s not only tested out what they sound like but also what kind of user experiences you get when faced with the task…
Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap proves to be a versatile Raspberry Pi add-on
Bare Conductive’s Pi Cap is an add-on board for the Raspberry Pi that plugs into the GPIO pins. It provides the following features: 12 conductive crocodile clip-compatible connection points High quality audio output via a 3.5mm jack A user-programmable RGB LED…
ZeroSeg from The Pi Hut / Average Man for the Raspberry Pi – review
A little while ago, The Pi Hut announced the launch of the ZeroSeg add-on board for the Raspberry Pi. I ordered one but it’s not until now that I managed to actually solder it up and have a play. So,…
Run x86 Linux apps on the Raspberry Pi with Exagear
Gus, over at PiMyLifeUp, has been looking at Exagear Desktop, a piece of Raspberry Pi-compatible software that allows you to run x86 apps. He has tried out the software and written up some how-tos to get various pieces of software…