The Journal - Page 3
If you're an EU-based customer who shops with us, you may have noticed a new tariff charge appearing on your order from 1 July 2026. Find out about where this charge comes from, why we're applying it, and what it means for you going forward.
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.
Compatibility testing on the Raspberry Pi, Odroid, Orange Pi and Asus Tinker Board platforms.
One of our customers, Bruno Ferreira, has written a new C library for use with the IO Pi Plus expansion board.
One of our most popular development boards is the IO Pi Plus. This board was based on our old IO Pi but updated to fit the newer HAT style introduced with the Raspberry Pi B+.
The IO Pi Plus has been used by thousands of customers worldwide, and we have received lots of positive feedback about the board and our software libraries. We have also received a few suggestions on ways we could improve the board, and after looking at the most popular suggestions, we are proud to announce a new revised version of the IO Pi Plus, version 2.1.
Some stats for our website visitors for 2016
150,000 unique users visited the website who viewed over 501,000 individual page views
They spend an average of 1 minute 56 seconds on each page.
We have been busy over the Christmas holidays updating our online shop, knowledge base and support forums to ensure that the website pages comply with online accessibility standards and to make the page links easier to read and type if needed.
Almost all the website content met these standards in the past, but some of the forum posts had caused the compliance testing software to report errors so we have updated all content where needed to fix the issues raised.