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…
Alex Eames, from RasPiO, has just launched his latest crowdfunding campaign over on his website. He is hoping to fund the Breadboard Pi Bridge which is an easy way to bridge the gap between a Raspberry Pi and a breadboard,…
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…
Quick reference for Solenoids and Relays: Solenoid alarm bell Kickstarter alarm bell Arduino/Relay/Solenoid Arduino/Solenoid Mini 5V solenoid from Pimoroni 8-channel relay board triggerable from 3v3 Controlling a relay from GPIO Zero Relay board from ModMyPi Relay board HAT from SB Components…
This is one of my rare not-strictly-Raspberry-Pi blog posts. Although using a Wemos, because the programming is in Micro Python, it wouldn’t be difficult to convert to using, say, an MCP3008 chip to read the analog values and then GPIO…
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…
Ryan Walmsley has taken an old claw machine and retro-fitted a Raspberry Pi to control it. A custom controller board (pictured below) gives him 2 dual H-bridges to drive the three motors on the X, Y and Z axis and some…
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…
Matt Hawkins, over at Raspberry Pi Spy, has been looking at the Energenie range of products and, more specifically, at a set of two sockets and control board that he bought. The control board, called the Pi-mote, is a GPIO…
Katja Budnikov works for a company (shopping24) that has the occasional two-day hackfest where employees get to play around with new technology and come up with non-work related projects. (Sounds like fun!) For the current round of hacking, Katja’s team…
