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Back in May 2014, I was privileged to get hold of a beta version of the RasPiO Duino<\/strong><\/a>. It’s a\u00a0GPIO plug-in\u00a0accessory that has an onboard ATMega chip that allows you to bring\u00a0the additional power of an Arduino to the Raspberry Pi. Here’s what I said about it back then<\/a>.<\/p>\n It’s been a long road for its creator, Alex Eames from RasPi.TV<\/a>, but now he has launched the Duino onto Kickstarter<\/a>. The campaign runs from today until 3rd March.<\/p>\n The RasPiO Duino has the following features (taken from the Kickstarter page<\/a>):<\/p>\n Alex is planning lots of documentation and videos<\/strong> for the board so you can get the most out of it. He runs RasPi.TV<\/a> so you know the docs and vids are going to be excellent quality and very informative.<\/p>\n I was very impressed by the Duino when I had a play with it<\/a><\/strong> – it’s a\u00a0great way to use your Pi to do something extra and to expand its capabilities. The soldering required to put the kit together isn’t arduous\u00a0– there’s a\u00a0quite a lot of it, but the board is so well laid-out that it’s simple to do – and it’s a real pleasure to use something that has been so well-designed and thought-out<\/em>.<\/p>\n I have just backed the Duino Kickstarter<\/a> to get the latest version of the board, and I really recommend doing so –\u00a0it’s extremely good value for money considering what you can do with it.<\/p>\n You can get hold of a RasPiO Duino board for \u00a39 (plus a small delivery cost) if you hurry and get an Earlybird,\u00a0and it goes up by a couple of pounds thereafter. Go to the Kickstarter page here<\/a>. If you’d like to find out more about the board before heading to Kickstarter, take a look at the video below which explains things better than I can \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n