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News and updates from AB Electronics UK

Raspberry Pi RTC Zero Pi

29 Feb 2016

We now have a Zero size version of our popular RTC Pi Plus board for the Raspberry Pi Zero. Order the RTC Pi Zero from https://www.abelectronics.co.uk/p/70/RTC-Pi-Zero ...

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New Adapter Range for Beaglebone and Arduino

06 Jan 2016

We are currently working on two new products to allow people to use our Raspberry Pi expansion boards with the Beaglebone Black mini computer and also the Arduino Uno/Mega boards and other Arduino based boards which use the same pin header layout. Before we order the boards to sell we would...

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PURR Power User Raspbian Release

03 Dec 2015

There is a new custom release of Raspbian for the Raspberry Pi made by Mark O'Neill. It needs a 32G SDHC card and it runs a full development environment and a selection of other goodies. Download URL is: https://sourceforge.net/projects/raspbianpoweruser ...

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New Knowledge Base and Support Section Live

02 Oct 2015

We are pleased to announce that our new support section is now live at AB Electronics UK. The updated support pages now include a new Knowledge Base system with sections for each of our Raspberry Pi expansion boards with tutorials for each board and ready to run code demos. The community...

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New 18 bit, 8 channel ADC Board released

01 Oct 2015

New from AB Electronics UK, the ADC Differential Pi is an 8 channel 18 bit analogue to digital converter designed to work with the Raspberry Pi A+, Raspberry Pi B+ and Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. ...

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Bad Dog Designs Nixie tube Solar Monitor

01 May 2015

Bad Dog Designs in the UK have made a 1930’s style solar power monitoring system using a Raspberry Pi which displays the solar power generated on large Nixie tubes and old analogue panel meters which are driven using servos using one of our Servo Pi expansion boards. You can view the build...

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