To get the Bright Pi working on the Raspberry Pi, you need to enable I2C. You can find a great guide on setting up I2C on the Adafruit website here. Once I2C is all set up, then from command line to turn only all white LEDs on: sudo i2cset -y 1 0x70 0x00 0x5a To […]
Please note that this page has now been superseded by the Bright Pi Quickstart and FAQ page. When you purchased your Bright Pi v1.0 kit, you should have received an anti-static bag with some components in it which will require soldering together in order to get the Bright Pi up and running and connected to your […]
Pi Sight – an Android app for the Raspberry Pi camera module We are delighted to announce Pi Sight – a new Android application for the Raspberry Pi Camera module. It is essentially an Android version of BerryCam. In fact it was designed to use the same handler script as BerryCam so that those with […]
Over the last few weeks we have been working with Joe Walnes (@joewalnes) to bring the brilliant Pi Crust add on board into a complete kit form ready for anyone to purchase, without the need to source the components yourself or pay huge delivery fees for small component orders. We decided to launch this on […]
Raspberry Pi The code on this page has been superseded, you can find the new scripts on our GitHub repository. Use the code below only if you are using Wheezy. Python There are two ways to implement this in Python…with a while loop, or using interrupts. Below can be found some code examples to use […]
Please find below the assembly instructions for the Pi Supply Switch v1.1. We will soon have a full picture guide here, but until then the following are the positions. The PCB is labelled with the component positions. We recommend you assemble them in this order: R1 and R2: Resistor 22k R3 and R4: Resistor 10k […]
Today was another exciting day at Pi Supply HQ, with yet another delivery. This time it was the long awaited prototype board! The quality is visually great…just need to assemble and test it, and then we can give it the go ahead. Here are some pictures for you of the board: You can also see […]
For those of you who check back onto our site on a regular basis, you may have noticed already that over the weekend we added some files to the downloads section of the site. The files we just added are the schematic and Gerber files for the v1.0 and v1.1 of the Pi Supply Switch […]
This is just a quick one to let you all know that the “Backer Surveys” for our Kickstarter campaign (to gather your shipping information, contact details, and to pick up on any extra items you might have pledged for) have now been sent out. Please see the update on Kickstarter at the following link, and […]
Today we received an email from one of our fantastic FIRST EDITION backers, Nial Pearce, who has set up his beta Pi Supply in record time…we only sent the boards out on Wednesday, and he had it up and running by 4pm on Thursday. Fantastic effort by both Royal Mail and Nial – give yourself […]