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News and updates from AB Electronics UK

1st Birthday for AB Electronics UK

23 Aug 2013

Today marks the first anniversary of the launch of AB Electronics UK. The business started as the result of a post on our project blog for a Raspberry Pi ADC board and the Raspberry Pi Solar Data Logger (which is still running 24/7). The post was picked up by Hackaday and this...

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New range of Connectors

29 Jul 2013

We have added a new range of connectors to our shop http://www.abelectronics.co.uk/products/11/connectors/ ...

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Raspberry Pi SD Card Socket Replacement

15 May 2013

If like us you have managed to snap or damage the SD card socket on the base of your Raspberry Pi when fitting the board into a case, this video will hopefully be useful in showing you how to repair your damaged Raspberry Pi. The replacement socket we used was ordered from Farnell in...

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ADC Pi SMBus Demo

06 Feb 2013

We have added a python 2.7 version of our ADC Pi v2 demo code to the site which uses the SMBus to access the ADC chips. You can download the code demos from the Code samples page. #!/usr/bin/env python3 # read abelectronics ADC Pi V2 board inputs with repeating reading from each...

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Order Destination Update

28 Dec 2012

We regret that we are no longer able to send items to Greece due to a very large number of our previous deliveries being lost in the post and not reaching their destination. Since our launch in September 2012 over 90% of the orders sent to Greece have not been delivered. On several of the orders...

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Gasser Pollutant Detector with Delta Sigma Pi

14 Dec 2012

Gasser is a self-contained mobile sensor for sensing NO2, O3, and SO2. Currently run only with NO2 as that is the most present pollutant in Paris. This project is using one of our Delta Sigma Pi boards. Gasser has essentially three main parts: The sensor (any analogue or digital sensor...

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