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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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ADC Pi read speeds

09 Apr 2015

Today we received a question from a customer who was asking how fast the ADC Pi could sample all of its 8 input channels and log to a file . We modified one of our Python 3 demo scripts to run a loop of 100 sample of each of the 8 channels so it would scan channels 1 to 8 saving to a text file...

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Epson Thermal Printer via PHP and Serial

06 Feb 2015

We have received an email from Warren who is using a Raspberry PI 2 with a Serial Pi adapter to print to an EPSON Thermal Printer via PHP who has made the code available for anyone to use on his GitHub account. You can download the code from...

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The new Raspberry Pi B plus range

08 Sep 2014

In August 2014 from the Raspberry Pi foundation announced a new revision of the Raspberry Pi model B called a Raspberry Pi B+ which was a redesign of the old board with a new 40 pin GPIO connector, two extra USB ports and other changes on the board to improve the power consumption and changes to...

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Servo Pi 16 servos demo

10 Jun 2014

We have made a video demo showing our Servo Pi board driving 16 RC servos with various drive modes and sequences. The code for the last demo on the video is available to download. ...

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RasPI NTC ADC

31 May 2014

Github user OZ1LQO has written a script to use an NTC Thermistor with our ADC DAC board using python. Download the script from https://github.com/OZ1LQO/RasPI-NTC-ADC ...

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