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News and updates from AB Electronics UK

New ADC Pi and Delta Sigma Pi kernel driver

15 Sep 2013

Angelo Compagnucci has written a kernel driver for the Microchip's MCP3422, MCP3423, MCP3424 high resolution ADC chips and this is compatible with the ADC Pi or Delta Sigma Pi extensions boards from AB electronics. Detailed instructions for the installation and usage of the new kernel driver...

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Pt1000 thermistor with the ADC Pi V2

12 Sep 2013

This post was submitted by Craig Edwards Dagda who has been using a Pt1000 thermistor with the ADC Pi V2 board and was getting unexpected results and explains how he resolved the problems: Here is what I’m doing. I wanted to use a Pt1000 thermistor to take temperature readings, sounds...

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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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