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News and updates from AB Electronics UK

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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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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