{"id":7064,"date":"2013-11-19T08:58:26","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T08:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=7064"},"modified":"2013-11-19T08:58:26","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T08:58:26","slug":"festive-fun-with-the-piringo-led-board-for-the-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=7064","title":{"rendered":"Festive fun with the PiRingo LED board for the #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/4tronix\/piringo-festive-fun-for-raspberry-pi-gpio\"><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/0b8bd1ebbebf183f84cf5d1ebb6bc217_large1.jpg' alt='PiRingo: Festive Fun for Raspberry Pi GPIO by Gareth Davies - 4tronix \u2014 Kickstarter' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just in time for Christmas, ebay and Amazon seller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.4tronix.co.uk\/store\/\">4tronix <\/a>have developed a cute little GPIO add-on board for the Pi. It has a ring of LEDs and two switches meaning you can use it in a PiGlow-type way but also interactively. They suggest several projects on their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/4tronix\/piringo-festive-fun-for-raspberry-pi-gpio\">Kickstarter project page<\/a> and there are a lot of possibilities with something as simple and well put-together as this. It requires some simple soldering but this is exactly the kind of low-cost easy-access project you could use with your kids to teach them soldering. 4tronix have promised a suite of example scripts and apps written in Scratch and Python to get you started with the programming.<\/p>\n<p><strong>I&#8217;ve backed it<\/strong> and, at \u00a38 for the earlybird deal and \u00a39 for the regular board, I recommend that you support this UK company and pledge too!<\/p>\n<p><em>I am not affiliated with 4tronix &#8211; I&#8217;m just a very happy past customer!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/4tronix\/piringo-festive-fun-for-raspberry-pi-gpio\">Read more about the board at Kickstarter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Christmas, ebay and Amazon seller 4tronix have developed a cute little GPIO add-on board for the Pi. 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