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News and updates from AB Electronics UK

3D printed spacer for the Raspberry Pi

02 Dec 2020

Patrick Dubois D'Enghien has created this useful 3D printed spacer for Raspberry Pi expansion boards and hats and has released it on Thingiverse under the under the Creative Commons - Attribution - Non-Commercial license. The spacer can be used as a replacement for our metal mounting kit...

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Coronavirus COVID19 Delivery and Posting Changes

19 Mar 2020

Update 29th December 2020 Deliveries to Europe will now go ahead as normal after Royal Mail now have access to European destinations Update 22th December 2020 Due to the new Covid 19 restrictions in place across Europe and the closure of ports and air travel to destinations outside of...

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New Product Launch I2C Switch

30 Nov 2019

We have launched a new product, the I2C switch allows you to switch between four I2C busses on the Raspberry Pi. https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/84/i2c-switch ...

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Email issues with yahoo accounts

22 Aug 2019

We are currently experiencing problems sending order confirmation emails to addresses ending with @yahoo.co.uk and @yahoo.com We have contacted yahoo’s support team and are waiting for them to resolve the problem with their servers. There are not any issues with all other email...

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New new tutorial for the IO Pi Plus

20 Feb 2019

We have added a new tutorial to our knowledge base for how to use interrupts on the MCP23017 on the IO Pi Plus on the Raspberry Pi. https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/kb/article/1087/io-pi-tutorial-3---introducing-interrupts ...

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New delivery options

17 Jul 2018

We are pleased to announce that we can now offer a tracked and signed for service using Royal Mail International Tracked & Signed for our customers in addition to our regular Royal Mail Airmail service. Customers can select the new tracked service at the checkout and our shipping rates...

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