The PiCap from Bare Conductive uses conductive ink to transfer touch impulses to the Raspberry Pi. They’ve written a lovely little tutorial on how to do it yourself and have put the code on GitHub. If you want to do…
The recently released Power-over-Ethernet HAT from Raspberry Pi was designed to allow the Raspberry Pi to be powered by a single power-enabled Ethernet cable. Aimed mostly at the industrial market, this HAT uses the extra 4-pin header on the 3B+ to…
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…
The latest Humble Bundle book deal (just a sample of which is shown above) contains several books from Make including “Make: A Raspberry Pi-Controlled Robot” by Wolfram Donat and various other electronics and programming volumes. Well worth a look if you…
Alex Eames, over at RasPiO, discovered that his GPIO reference PCB, known as the Portsplus did not fit the new Raspberry Pi 3B+ because of the new Power-over-Ethernet header. To get round the problem, he has rejigged and redesigned the…
Google has launched new versions of its two AIY Projects kits, but only to the US first of all. The new kits come with a bundled Raspberry Pi Zero WH (that’s the pre-soldered version) and an SD card with the…
Matt Hawkins, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a great article on the dangers of buying microSD cards from eBay. There are numerous scammers out there selling fake SD cards and Matt has identified, and reported, one such seller.…
Tim’s just alerted me to the latest Humble Bundle book deals, and they are great bundles to grab! They’re all Wiley books, so the quality is excellent. For $1, you can get: Complete Electronics Self-Teaching Guide with Projects Exploring Arduino Learning…
Good news this morning! Raspberry Pi has announced the launch of the new Raspberry Pi 3B+. An incremental upgrade of the Raspberry Pi 3, the 3B+ features: an improved processor running at an increased speed of 1.4GHz with an added…
I’ve just received the CPC Spring Deals catalogue through the post and thought I would share the deals that are of relevance to Raspberry Pi users and makers. These prices are all without VAT, so you’ll need to add the…
