One of the things that makes Raspberry Pi’s small and inexpensive single-board computers interesting is the 40-pin connectors that makes it possible to connect expansion boards called HATs (which stands for Hardware Attached on Top). These can add features like sensors, displays, additional ports and other I/O options, and much more. But most of the […]
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Hardware kit turns Raspberry Pi into a DIY Google Home (kind of)
Just a few days after Google released a software development kit for Google Assistant, allowing developers to bring Google’s voice assistant service to third-party hardware, there’s a new hardware kit that lets you turn a Raspberry Pi into an Assistant-enabled device. The AIY Projects voice kit includes a speaker, microphone, cables, arcade-style button, and a cardboard case […]
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Clearly your Raspberry Pi needs a tube amp (crowdfunding)
The Raspberry Pi line of devices are inexpensive, low-power, credit card-sized computers. But while there are USB ports for connecting a keyboard, mouse, gamepad, or other accessories, there are also a series of GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) pins that allow you to connect hardware in other ways. For instance, you can connect a HAT (Hardware […]
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Raspberry Pi Model B+ can wear HATs (Hardware Attached on Top)
The new Raspberry Pi Model B+ may not have a faster processor or more memory than the original Raspberry Pi mini-computers that launched 2 years ago. But it has twice as many USB ports, more GPIO pins, lower power consumption, and other improvements. It can also wear a HAT… which is a new type of […]