{"id":16037,"date":"2016-12-07T15:24:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:24:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16037"},"modified":"2016-12-07T15:25:36","modified_gmt":"2016-12-07T14:25:36","slug":"christmas-shopping-guide-from-the-raspberry-pi-foundation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16037","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Shopping Guide from the Raspberry Pi Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/the-raspberry-pi-christmas-shopping-list-2016\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16038\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Christmas-shopping-list.jpg?resize=560%2C343&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Christmas-shopping-list.jpg?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Christmas-shopping-list.jpg?resize=300%2C184&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Christmas-shopping-list.jpg?resize=560%2C343&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Christmas-shopping-list.jpg?resize=260%2C159&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Christmas-shopping-list.jpg?resize=160%2C98&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alex over at the Foundation has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/the-raspberry-pi-christmas-shopping-list-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">blogged<\/a>\u00a0a great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/the-raspberry-pi-christmas-shopping-list-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pi-centric shopping guide<\/a> for the festive season. She&#8217;s picked a lot of good stuff here including kits, add-ons, books and accessories. I was going to do my own guide, but she&#8217;s done a very good job with this, so I probably won&#8217;t!<\/p>\n<p>Nice to see things like the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thepihut.com\/collections\/camjam-edukit\" target=\"_blank\">CamJam EduKit<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0getting some love, along with things like the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/rasp.io\/gpiozeroruler\/\" target=\"_blank\">RasPiO GPIO Zero Ruler<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/ryanteck.uk\/raspberry-pi\/114-snowpi-the-gpio-snowman-for-raspberry-pi-0635648608303.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ryanteck SnowPi<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0along with more expensive things such as the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pi-top.com\/product\/pi-top\" target=\"_blank\">Pi-Top<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pi-top.com\/product\/ceed\" target=\"_blank\">Pi-Top CEED<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/the-raspberry-pi-christmas-shopping-list-2016\/\" target=\"_blank\">Take a look at the Christmas Shopping Guide here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex over at the Foundation has blogged\u00a0a great Pi-centric shopping guide for the festive season. 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I was going to do my own guide, but she&#8217;s done&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16037\">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":true,"_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":[54,20,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-gpio-boards","category-rpi-shopping"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Christmas Shopping Guide from the Raspberry Pi Foundation - 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=16037\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Christmas Shopping Guide from the Raspberry Pi Foundation - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alex over at the Foundation has blogged\u00a0a great Pi-centric shopping guide for the festive season. 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