Greetings loyal readers! A quick update on “stuff” in and around Planet Spell Foundry. The main issue to talk about is the recent Global Component Shortages which seem to have affected the whole world for much of the last year. From a lack of new cars to limited availability of graphics cards, anyone making anything …
The original Sleepy Pi was introduced over 2 1/2 years ago and has been doing sterling service ever since, finding it’s way to all four corners of the globe. With the 26-pin connector it is compatible with all models of Raspberry Pi. However, with the introduction of the Raspberry Pi B+ a new 40-pin GPIO …
The shop has been keeping us fairly busy recently and although we didn’t make a formal announcement, the Sleepy Pi has been in stock and available for a couple of months now. All the issues with the early boards were resolved and along the way the power consumption was lowered even further. New Product We’re …
Happy New Year one and all! Here at Spell Foundry we’re looking forward to 2014 and all that it holds. It has been far too long since my last post and my New Year’s resolution has got to be to post more content and more often! So what’s been happening in the dungeons (ok, workshops …
It’s been a while since the last update, but that’s not to say there hasn’t been plenty going on in the depths of the Spell Foundry workshop. Here’s a few snippets: Sleepy Pi Beta boards are now out in the wild, later than hoped largely as a result of the volume of documentation that needed …
It Lives! It’s been a bit longer than anticipated in the procurement and commissioning of the latest revision of the Sleepy Pi hardware. But it’s all been good and the Sleepy Pi is ready to take the next step. There was a lot of software that was required to be written and Raspberry Pi configurations …
New Boards Coming! We’ve Just ordered the next revision (rev 1.0D) of the Sleepy Pi board which will hopefully be the board that is sent out to our Beta testers in a couple of weeks (barring any disasters). There have been a number of changes from the initial rev. 1.0C board. Apart from fixing the …
We’re pleased to announce the launch of the Sleepy Pi family of boards and accessories for the Raspberry Pi. The first board in the family is the Sleepy Pi, which is essentially a Smart Power Management board for the Raspberry Pi that includes a low power Arduino that stays powered when the Raspberry Pi is …
We are now officially open and can take orders in the shop. We hope everything works smoothly, but please bear with us (and please let us know) if there’s the odd hitch – We’re still finding our feet a bit. Welcome!
10 PRINT “Hello World!” 20 GOTO 10 …a little programming joke there. Back in the mists of time when computers plugged into your TV and ran BASIC (the inspiration for the Raspberry Pi) we used to go into shops and type that program into the computers, run it and walk away. Of course, in those …
