Hardware

Raspberry Pi users may be interested to know that the Raspberry Pi Sense HAT is now available to purchase directly from the Adafruit website priced at $39.95. The Raspberry Pi Sense HAT has been designed to attached to the top of the Raspberry Pi via the 40 GPIO pins and is compatible with … [Read more...] about Raspberry Pi Sense HAT Arrives At Adafruit

It was previously announced that AOPEN and Google were joining forces to create a Chrome OS system, and this week the new Chromebase Commercial all-in-one system complete with a 22 inch touchscreen display and running Google’s Chrome OS has been spotted making its way through the FCC. The new … [Read more...] about Chromebase Commercial 22 Inch Touchscreen System Unveiled

Adafruit has today announced the addition of a new Raspberry Pi Breakout Hat that is now available to purchase from the Adafruit online store priced at $19.95. The new edition takes the form of the Pi-EzConnect Terminal Block Breakout HAT that provides both solderless or soldered connections for … [Read more...] about Raspberry Pi Pi-EzConnect Terminal Block Breakout HAT Arrives At Adafruit (video)

UK students patiently waiting for the BBC micro:bit mini PC to roll out, that was first unveiled during July of this year. Will be disappointed to learn that the BBC has this week announced a delay in the mini PCs launch due to a power supply issue that has been discovered on some of the PCs that … [Read more...] about BBC micro:bit Mini PC Launch Delayed Due To Power Supply Issue

Makers and developers that enjoy building projects using the Arduino platform may be interested in a new portable development platform that has been created by Simone Picchioni called the Nibble. Nibble has been created to provide users with an all-in-one pocket Arduino development board that … [Read more...] about Nibble Pocket Sized Arduino Development Environment

Gigabyte has this week unveiled a new addition to their range of motherboards with the launch of the G1.Sniper B7 socket LGA1151 is a socket LGA1151 motherboard. The new motherboard is based on the Intel B150 Express chipset and supports Intel’s latest sixth generation Intel Skylake processors as … [Read more...] about Gigabyte G1.Sniper B7 Socket LGA1151 Motherboard Unveiled

A new open source robotic arm has this week launched over on Kickstarter called the Dobot, providing an Arduino powered high quality 4-axis parallel-mechanism robot arm. Dobot has been created by a team of six engineers based in San Francisco California and has been designed to provide a 4-axis … [Read more...] about Dobot Open Source Arduino Robotic Arm Launches On Kickstarter (video)