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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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NTP Server using Raspberry Pi and GPS Module

03 Jan 2014

Gavin Andrews has found a very interesting way to use our Com Pi or Serial Pi board with a GPS module to use the Raspberry Pi as a NTP server. Read more at his blog http://aardvarklabs.wordpress.com/2013/12/29/ntp-server-using-raspberry-pi-and-vp-oncore-gps-module-part-1/ ...

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VAT and shop prices

01 Jan 2014

From the 1st January 2014 we will be adding UK VAT at 20% to our orders as we have now had to register for VAT with the United Kingdom tax office. We are currently waiting for our VAT number to arrive but we have been told that VAT will need to be added to our orders from the 1st January which...

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