{"id":15834,"date":"2016-11-07T15:46:10","date_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15834"},"modified":"2016-11-07T15:46:10","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T14:46:10","slug":"new-kickstarter-seeks-to-bring-an-easy-internet-of-things-to-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15834","title":{"rendered":"New Kickstarter seeks to bring an easy Internet of Things to the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15835\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sixfab.png?resize=560%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"sixfab\" width=\"560\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sixfab.png?w=680&amp;ssl=1 680w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sixfab.png?resize=300%2C128&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sixfab.png?resize=560%2C240&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sixfab.png?resize=260%2C111&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/sixfab.png?resize=160%2C68&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sixfab.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SixFab<\/a>\u00a0(and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sixfabinc\" target=\"_blank\">on Twitter<\/a>) has just launched <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/sixfab\/raspberry-pi-iot-shield-family-power-to-the-shield\/?ref=raspberrypipod\" target=\"_blank\">a new Kickstarter campaign<\/a>\u00a0for a series of Internet of Things add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. The &#8216;shields&#8217; are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4G\/LTE<\/li>\n<li>3G<\/li>\n<li>GSM\/GPRS<\/li>\n<li>GPS<\/li>\n<li>XBee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>They are compatible with all models of Raspberry Pi (including the original, which they&#8217;ve mis-labelled the &#8216;A&#8217;) and come in a variety of form-factors. These look like well thought-out boards, and well worth a look. Pledges start at a not-unreasonable $19 for the GSM\/GPRS board rising to $99 for a 4G board, which again isn&#8217;t that bad if you can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;ve already started making <a href=\"http:\/\/sixfab.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">tutorials for the boards<\/a>, which proves that they do at least work and there&#8217;s a fair amount of support behind them.<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide shipping is included (bravo, guys) and the campaign runs until 17th December seeking to raise $50k. I&#8217;ve made a pledge for one of the super earlybird GPRS\/GSM shields, just as a punt.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at the campaign video below or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/sixfab\/raspberry-pi-iot-shield-family-power-to-the-shield\/?ref=raspberrypipod\" target=\"_blank\">go to Kickstarter here<\/a>.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/sixfab\/raspberry-pi-iot-shield-family-power-to-the-shield\/widget\/video.html\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"> <\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SixFab\u00a0(and on Twitter) has just launched a new Kickstarter campaign\u00a0for a series of Internet of Things add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. The &#8216;shields&#8217; are as follows: 4G\/LTE 3G GSM\/GPRS GPS XBee They are compatible with all models of Raspberry&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15834\">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":[13,20,26,62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crowdfunding","category-gpio-boards","category-internet-of-things","category-sensors"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>New Kickstarter seeks to bring an easy Internet of Things to the Raspberry Pi - 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=15834\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"New Kickstarter seeks to bring an easy Internet of Things to the Raspberry Pi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"SixFab\u00a0(and on Twitter) has just launched a new Kickstarter campaign\u00a0for a series of Internet of Things add-on boards for the Raspberry Pi. 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