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We are thrilled to announce the launch of our updated knowledge base at AB Electronics UK. We’ve listened to your feedback and worked hard to make our knowledge base more user-friendly, comprehensive, and efficient. Whether you’re a beginner just getting started or an experienced developer looking for detailed documentation, our new layout and features are designed to help you find exactly what you need with ease.
We regret that due to price increases from the UK Royal Mail postage service we have increased the prices for the tracked and signed delivery options for sending orders.
Royal Mail have increased the prices every year and we have tried to absorb the costs for the past few years, but we are afraid that we can no longer afford to cover the large difference in prices.
Over the past 18 months, we have been finding increasing problems purchasing the chips and passive components used for many of our Raspberry Pi development boards.
Globally there have been component shortages since early 2020 due to Covid 19 and other factors which have caused production problems for everyone.
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 Creative Commons - Attribution - Non-Commercial license.
The new I2C Switch from AB Electronics UK is a 4-channel I2C switch designed for the Raspberry Pi and other similar small board computers. It splits the Raspberry Pi I2C bus into four separate buses allowing you to connect devices that share the same I2C address onto the Raspberry Pi. Each bus supports multiple I2C devices and if necessary the I2C switch can be daisy-chained allowing you to increase the number of I2C buses available.
We would like to inform our customers that we are currently experiencing issues with sending order confirmation emails to addresses that end with @yahoo.co.uk and @yahoo.com. This problem is specifically related to Yahoo’s email services, and we are actively working with Yahoo’s support team to resolve it as quickly as possible.
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.
We are delighted to announce an enhancement to our shipping options for our customers. Alongside our standard Royal Mail Airmail service, we now offer a Tracked and Signed-for service using Royal Mail International Tracked & Signed.
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new design and upgrade for our AB Electronics UK online shop for our 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 instructions, Compatibility, Code Libraries, Demo programs and Datasheets and a much cleaner layout, which we hope will be easier for our customers to view and find the information they require.
We have a new and updated Python library available to use with our Raspberry Pi development boards. The new version 2.0 update includes several major changes found in the changelog.md in the root of the GitHub repository.
We now have new C++ libraries and demo code available to use with our Raspberry Pi development boards.
The Expander Pi has been redesigned to work with all Raspberry Pi models which use the 40-pin GPIO connector.
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 our Serial Pi Plus board to add an RS232 port to your Raspberry Pi.