The Raspberry Pi is a nice little board, but in some cases you may want to add some extra ports. Suptronics released the X100 expansion board for Raspberry Pi Model B last year, and they’ve now come up with a little monster called X200 expansion board for Raspberry Pi Model B+ which adds Wi-Fi, a […]
Beaglebone (Black) expansion boards are called capes, Minnowboard ones are lures, and Raspberry Pi model B+ add-on boards can be HATs (HArdware on Top). When I found a kit for the Raspberry Pi model B+ on DealExtreme, based on Waveshare DVK512 add-ons board I thought it might have found a Chinese HAT, but unfortunately it
NOTE – these nodes are no longer on the air. I leave these pages for reference purposes. I have gone to the better world of Allstar. See my development of Allstar on the Beagle Bone Black See my second Pi IRLP node 8891 in Cape May, NJ The Raspberry Pi is a small single board
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With over 3 million boards sold, the Raspberry Pi is by far the most popular ARM Linux board on the market, but people are often asking for hardware upgrades with a faster processor, more RAM and so on. The good news is that a new Raspberry Pi board seems on the way, but since the
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Before getting my Raspberry Pi B model in the mail I made up my mind to make a case for it (pretty much a necessity). After looking at many very cool designs, I discovered a girl named Biz over at raspberrypi.org had made a case out of Lego and had the proper x & y
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After seeing the brilliant article from the Adafruit Blog describing in detail how to build a Raspberry Pi laptop, I decided I had to have one ! For those that might not have seen the article, take a look here … Some of the parts are a little tricky to find, mainly the female micro hdmi
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Roboteq launched a Kickstarter project to build an I/O add-in card for robotics navigation that stacks atop a Linux-based Raspberry Pi board. The RIO (Raspberry IO) is based on a 32-bit STM32 microcontroller, and includes a 3A DC/DC converter, several serial interfaces, a CAN interface, 21 GPIO, and an optional module with an accelerometer, gyroscope,
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Over the past couple months I’ve been implementing and building out a monitoring solution for our development and production systems. Since nagios is the most loved / hated monitoring solution I felt obliged to learn how it works. After fighting with user permissions, firewall rules, broken dependencies and basically any other problem it could throw
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My Brief Build a smoke alarm that sends an email and text message when it goes off. The Device After a fe w days of investigation into possible solutions, I opted to build one using a Raspberry PI and a cheap smoke alarm, linked by radio signal. When the Smoke Alarm is triggered, it will
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A guest post by Les Pounder, a Freelance IT Consultant and Trainer from the UK who is a regular contributor to many Linux magazines and podcasts. You can find out more about him at about.me/lespounder. Scratch, the well known first step into programming, has been used in the classroom for the last few years. Scratch
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