{"id":17527,"date":"2017-08-21T21:45:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-21T20:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17527"},"modified":"2017-08-21T21:46:21","modified_gmt":"2017-08-21T20:46:21","slug":"ryanteck-ltd-shutting-up-shop-after-several-years-in-the-raspberry-pi-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17527","title":{"rendered":"Ryanteck Ltd shutting up shop after several years in the Raspberry Pi community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ryanteck.png?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17528\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ryanteck.png?resize=560%2C128&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ryanteck.png?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ryanteck.png?resize=300%2C69&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ryanteck.png?resize=768%2C176&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ryanteck.png?resize=560%2C128&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ryanteck.png?resize=260%2C59&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/ryanteck.png?resize=160%2C37&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just received sad news. After several years of operating in the commercial arena of the Raspberry Pi, <a href=\"https:\/\/ryanteck.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ryanteck Ltd<\/a> is closing down. Ryan Walmsley, proprietor, just announced it via email. Ryan has been a leader of the Pi community, especially in the early days when he was a young programmer showing what the Pi could really do and developing one of the first motor controller boards that plugged directly into the GPIO pins. In recent times, he ran several Kickstarters culminating in the excellent <a href=\"https:\/\/ryanteck.uk\/electronics\/166-rtkgpio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RTk.GPIO<\/a>\u00a0board which gave you access to many more GPIO pins as well as bringing physical computing to PCs and Macs. Over the next few months, Ryan will be running a <a href=\"https:\/\/ryanteck.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">closing down sale<\/a>\u00a0so <a href=\"https:\/\/ryanteck.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">head over to his web store to pick up a bargain<\/a>. He&#8217;s expecting to cease trading at the end of October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just received sad news. After several years of operating in the commercial arena of the Raspberry Pi, Ryanteck Ltd is closing down. Ryan Walmsley, proprietor, just announced it via email. Ryan has been a leader of the Pi community,&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17527\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17528,"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":[47],"tags":[515],"class_list":["post-17527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpi-shopping","tag-ryanteck"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ryanteck Ltd shutting up shop after several years in the Raspberry Pi community - 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=17527\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ryanteck Ltd shutting up shop after several years in the Raspberry Pi community - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve just received sad news. 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