{"id":13895,"date":"2015-12-16T15:04:56","date_gmt":"2015-12-16T14:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13895"},"modified":"2015-12-16T15:17:43","modified_gmt":"2015-12-16T14:17:43","slug":"raspberry-pi-zero-and-other-stuff-christmas-giveaway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13895","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi Zero and other stuff Christmas giveaway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?attachment_id=13905\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13905\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13905\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/zero_ruler.jpg?resize=480%2C325&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"zero_ruler\" width=\"480\" height=\"325\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/zero_ruler.jpg?w=480&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/zero_ruler.jpg?resize=300%2C203&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/zero_ruler.jpg?resize=260%2C176&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/zero_ruler.jpg?resize=160%2C108&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hi everyone!<\/p>\n<p><strong>It&#8217;s Christmas!<\/strong> Everyone likes to get something for Christmas, so I thought it would be nice to do a <strong>blog give-away<\/strong>. I&#8217;m doing this in the form of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=13896\">questionnaire<\/a>, so it&#8217;s easy to get responses through.<\/p>\n<p>What am I giving away? Well, to one lucky winner, I will be giving away the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a <strong>Raspberry Pi Zero<\/strong> &#8211; the cute little board itself.<\/li>\n<li>an <strong>Essential Raspberry Pi Zero Kit<\/strong> (from <a href=\"http:\/\/thepihut.com\/collections\/raspberry-pi-accessories\/products\/raspberry-pi-zero-essential-kit\" target=\"_blank\">The Pi Hut<\/a>) &#8211; everything you need in terms of adapters and headers plus some handy rubber feet. And it comes in a tin. Everyone likes tins \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rasp.io\/gpioruler\/\" target=\"_blank\">RasPiO GPIO Ruler<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0&#8211; an easy guide to using GPIO with the Raspberry Pi&#8230; and it&#8217;s a ruler. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=12943\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a link to my pre-production sample review<\/a>. Short version: 10\/10, I love\u00a0it)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Now, I can&#8217;t guarantee it will reach you by Christmas, especially if you&#8217;re non-UK, but I will get the package sent out on Saturday morning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, how do you enter? <strong>Easy, you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?page_id=13896\">fill in this form<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0The winner will be selected at random, hopefully by a Raspberry Pi (if I get round to it, via some other kind of randomised jiggery pokery if not).<\/p>\n<p><em>Don&#8217;t worry, I won&#8217;t use your contact details or pass them on!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The give-away closes on\u00a0<strong>Saturday, 19th December at 8am.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo of the Zero &amp; ruler, credit: Alex Eames<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone! It&#8217;s Christmas! Everyone likes to get something for Christmas, so I thought it would be nice to do a blog give-away. I&#8217;m doing this in the form of a questionnaire, so it&#8217;s easy to get responses through. What&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13895\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-competitions"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Raspberry Pi Zero and other stuff Christmas giveaway - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13895\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Raspberry Pi Zero and other stuff Christmas giveaway - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi everyone! 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