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The Adafruit Raspberry Pi module combines a Python script, less than 60 lines of code, together with open-source software and a handful of electronic components, to create the effect generator.
Getting to your first Raspberry Pi hack? Adafruit’s first Educational Linux Distro might help.
The folks at Adafruit are busy as a bee working on bringing some of their really cool boards to the Raspberry Pi platform. Here’s a few that came in over the last few days: 16 servos is almos… ...
Adafruit has actually developed its own Linux distro for Raspberry Pi called “Occidentalis v0.1” (a play on “Rubus occidentalis”, the Latin term for “black raspberry”), which is geared ...
The Adafruit Cobbler Breakout Kit for the Raspberry Pi comes supplied with a 26 pin ribbon cable, a custom PCB, ribbon cable socket and header pins, and only requires a little soldering to construct.
The Raspberry Pi is great, but it's also missing a few things you need to actually use it. Namely, a keyboard, mouse, and monitor. Adafruit solves that (with the exception of the monitor), with ...
If you’re one of the lucky few with a Raspberry Pi, adafruit has two things you might be interested in if you’re into GPIO hacking. First up is the Pi Cobbler kit. It’s a 2×1… ...
At $35, Adafruit's tiny PiTFT screen makes it a little more reasonable. The PiTFT Mini Kit is by no means the only cheap way to add a touch screen to a Raspberry Pi, but it's probably the easiest.
A new prototyping board for the Raspberry Pi opens up all sorts of doors for hacking this new, tiny Linux-based PC.
If you've been intrigued by the Raspberry Pi but were hesitant to get one because you're new to Linux, Adafruit has a solution for you. The team that brought us the Raspberry Pi Education Linux ...
Adafruit, one of the main distributors of Raspberry Pi single board computers, has mandated the use of two-factor authentication for some new hardware purchases. Why? Because machines are buying ...
Adafruit is a supplier to the maker community specialising is open-source hardware and software. Its main business is as a distributor of development boards but it also designs its own design modules ...