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We regret to announce that from Saturday, 23rd August 2025, AB Electronics UK will be suspending all deliveries to the United States.
We are excited to share that we have added new tutorials for Home Assistant in our knowledge base. These guides are designed to help you set up and use Home Assistant with your Raspberry Pi and our expansion boards.
We've written guides to help you integrate our Raspberry Pi development boards, ADC Pi, ADC Differential Pi, and IO Pi Plus, into the Home Assistant platform.
We have also been hard at work behind the scenes over the past few months, ensuring our knowledge base is up to date with the latest updates to the Raspberry Pi and other small board computer platforms. We've updated all our knowledge base articles to ensure compatibility with the newest version of Raspberry Pi OS Bookworm and other leading distributions on platforms like Orange Pi, Odroid, and Asus Tinkerboard.
Our website has been completely redesigned with the latest technologies to offer a smooth and visually appealing experience on both desktop and mobile devices. The updated navigation and layout create a clean and intuitive interface, making it easier for you to find the products and information you need.
Following the cyber incident at Royal Mail, who we use for all our parcels, we are pleased to announce that Royal Mail is now accepting packages for all international destinations again.
Due to the tracked-only price change, our postage charges have been changed back to the lower prices following the changes earlier in February.
On 11 January 2023, Royal Mail reported experiencing “severe service disruption” following a cyber incident.
Royal Mail posted, “We have asked customers temporarily to stop submitting any export items into the network while we work hard to resolve the issue.”
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.