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News and updates from AB Electronics UK

New look for our 5th birthday

26 Sep 2017

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new design and upgrade for our AB Electronics UK web shop for out 5th birthday. The website has been updated for improved viewing on desktops, tablets and mobile devices and all our product pages now have quick links to Specifications, Assembly...

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Raspberry Pi Nuclear Power Plant Simulator

12 Aug 2017

Mark has used a Raspberry Pi and several of our IO Pi Plus boards to make his own Nuclear Power Plant Simulator. The IO Pi boards are broken out to external PCBs via ribbon cables to drive the leds, lights and switches. You can view more information about the project on Marks blog at...

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Python Code Libraries Updates

08 Jul 2017

We are pleased to announce that we have a new and updated Python library available to use with our Raspberry Pi expansion boards. The new version 2.0 update includes several major changes which can be found in the changelog.md in the root of the github repository. Since we launched the...

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CPP Libraries

03 Jul 2017

We now have new C++ libraries and demo code available to use with our Raspberry Pi expansion boards. https://github.com/abelectronicsuk/ABElectronics_CPP_Libraries C++ Class Libraries and demo code to work with Raspberry Pi expansion boards from http://www.abelectronics.co.uk To...

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New Expander Pi launch

29 Jun 2017

The Expander Pi has been redesigned to work with all Raspberry Pi models which use the 40 pin GPIO connector. Order yours today from https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/50/Expander-Pi ...

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Case Recommendations

04 May 2017

We have found a commercial Raspberry Pi enclosure which will allow our boards to be stacked inside and the case will protect the boards. The case can also be modified to use with our Serial Pi Plus board to add a RS232 port to your Raspberry Pi. The photos below show the case from HiFiBerry...

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