John Alexander's Blog

  • Laser cut Acrylic Cases now available for the Raspberry Pi

    Problemchild
    The Piduino thing has temporarily gone rather quiet whilst I start a new job but in the mean timea friend of mine has borrowed the Raspberry Pi and finished off the case we've been playing withfor ages and only now have a RPi to check the dimensions....

  • RaspberryPI Unboxed

    Problemchild
    No pain no gain they keep saying and may be it's true !Raspberry Pi Org had me up all night wiating for a chance to order my new toy.Ironically I'd only just closed the Farnell webpage down when I read the news that theywere going to process the ord...

  • MoPi a Raspberry Pi Prototyping board

    Problemchild
    Before I moved to the Idea of incorporating an AT Mega 328 on the board and basicly providing an integrated Arduino system I was looking at a  prototype pad board  bare and uncommited except for the 2 A 5V DCDC converted to "Juice Up" the P...

  • Etch PCBs @ Home -Talk at Shropshire Linux User Group (SLUG) Feb 2012

    Problemchild
    We decided that Shropshire Linux User group needed a more practical focus and one of the talks given in this vein was February's "Etch PCBs @home"  given by  Richard Wilkinsonof Miles Ahead Developments of Telford. We wanted to demonstrate ...

  • Piduino a prototype Arduino Clone for the Raspberry Pi

    Problemchild
    Thought I'd start the new Blog here on Element14 with a few posts of the older stuff that I've been working on.The Piduino was from an idea that both the Arduino and Rapberry Pi could complement one another  wherethe RPi supplied the brains and ...