Printed circuit board and a single 2×20 GPIO Header for Raspberry Pi to put your Perma-Proto on top of your Raspberry Pi (like a nice little hat).
This hat is only compatible with the Raspberry Pi Model A+ or B+.
It will not work with the Raspberry Pi Model A or B.

Hackaday branded Perma-Proto Black Hat. Design your own Pi HAT, attach custom circuitry and otherwise dress your Pi A+ or B+ with this jaunty prototyping HAT kit with EEPROM. It has a grid of 0.1″ prototyping soldering holes for attaching chips, resistors, LED, potentiometers and more. The holes are connected underneath with traces to mimic the solderless breadboards you’re familiar. There’s also long power strips for +3V, +5V and Ground connections to the Pi. Near the top we break out nearly every pin you could want to connect to the Pi (#26 didnt quite make the cut).

This version comes with a blank 24C32 I2C EEPROM soldered on and connected to the EEDAT/EECLK lines so you cannot ‘stack’ it with other HATs.

WD PiDrive Kit
http://store.wdc.com/store/wdeu/en_GB/DisplayAccesoryProductDetailsPage/ThemeID.22586100/Accessories/WD_PiDrive_Kit/productID.325370000/categoryId.13833200

One of our chief complaints about the Raspberry Pi is it doesn’t have a lot of I/O. There are plenty of add ons, of course to expand the I/O capabilities. The actual Raspberry Pi foundation recently created the Sense Hat which adds a lot of features to a Pi, although they might not be the ones we would have picked. The boards were made for the AstroPi project (the project that allowed UK schools to run experiments in space). They don’t appear to be officially for sale to the public yet, but according to their site, they will be selling them soon. Update: Despite some pages on the Raspberry Pi site saying they aren’t out yet, they apparently are.

The board has an ATTiny, but it is not supposed to be user programmable (we smell future hacks here, though). There is a Python API and, presumably, the CPU is running something like Firmata. The most obvious feature, though, is an 8X8 RGB LED matrix. This can be used for (very low resolution) graphical output or scrolling text.

https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/the-sense-hat-headgear-for-the-terminally-curious/

PoE for RasPi
We are making a Power over Ethernet (PoE) shield for Raspberry Pi versions B+ and 2B.
http://ell-i.org/products/poe-for-raspi/

Using a Raspberry Pi means plugging lots of cables into it, including for power. However, PiJuice is set to remove that need by providing a battery solution that sits on top of the Pi and gives you 24 hours or more of power from a single charge.

PiJuice appeared on Kickstarter with a funding goal of £10,000 ($14,890).

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1895460425/pijuice-a-portable-project-platform-for-every-rasp

2,417 backers pledged £124,372 to help bring this project to life.

Educational hardware startup Kano announced on Monday that it had raised $15m from a Series A funding pot.

Brit economist and one-time Goldman Sachs asset management chairman Jim O’Neill was among the backers piling greenbacks onto the outfit.

Kano, whose computer is powered by the Raspberry Pi 2 and retails at $149 (£119.99), said it hoped to scoop up a further $500,000 from community donations.

Last time Kano turned to crowd-sourcing for funds, it managed to quickly raise more than $100,000.

Compatible with Raspberry Pi B/B+/A+ perfectly.
Faster SPI and higher reliability UART connections.
Easier to assemble camera cables and LCD cables.

GrovePi+ is a system with 15 Grove 4-pin interfaces that brings Grove sensors to the Raspberry Pi. It is the newest version compatible with Raspberry model B/B+ and A+ perfectly.

GrovePi+ is an easy-to-use and modular system for hardware hacking with the Raspberry Pi. There is no need for soldering or breadboards: plug in your Grove sensors and start programming directly. Grove is an easy to use collection of more than 100 inexpensive plug-and-play modules that sense and control the physical world.

Two tables down from us at SXSW Create the Raspberry Pi foundation had a steady stream of kids playing Minecraft on Raspberry Pi, and picking up paint brushes. The painting activity was driven by a board they spun for the event that used conductive paint to control the Raspberry Pi 2.

The front side exposes several circular pads of copper which build up a “connect-the-dots” game that is played by painting conductive ink on the surface. This results in an airplane being pained on the board, as well as displayed on the computer. There is a set of pads that allow the user to select what color is painted on the monitor.

We like this as a different approach to education. Kids are more than used to tapping on a touchscreen, clicking a mouse, or pounding a keyboard. But conductive ink provides several learning opportunities; the paint simply connects the inner circle with the outer circle; one of these circles is the same on every single dot (ground); anything that connects these two parts of the dot together will result in input for the computer. Great stuff!

Dots Board – Developer Giveaway!
https://www.raspberrypi.org/dots-board-giveaway/

PiJuice – A Portable Project Platform For Every Raspberry Pi

The PiJuice will also likely be available in the future (once we have fulfilled all of the Kickstarter rewards and pre orders) via a number of distribution and retail partners. We will announce these as they come on board.

Features:

Onboard 1400 mAh “off the shelf” Lipo / LiIon battery for ~6 hours in constant use! (with support for larger Lipo Battery of 5000 or 10,000 mAH+ to last up to 24 hrs +)
Full UPS (Uninterrupted Power Supply) solution.
Integrated RTC (Real Time Clock)
On board intelligent on/off switch
Low power deep-sleep state with wake on interrupt/calendar event
Programmable multi-colored RGB led
Full power management API available to Raspberry Pi OS with auto shutdown capability when running low on batteries
Raspberry Pi HAT compatible layout, with on board EEPROM for easy plug and play operation
Low profile design, to fit inside lots of existing Raspberry Pi cases!

Further Details

The real time clock (RTC) on board will let your Pi know what time it is even with no power input or internet connection. Alongside this is a micro-controller (MCU) chip which together will manage soft shut down functionality and a true low power deep sleep state and intelligent start up.

You will be able to always keep track of the charge levels with the built in tri-coloured RGB LEDs, and since the PiJuice will use up to just five of your GPIO pins (just power and I2C), the rest are free to diversify your project even more. The stacking header allows you to continue to use your existing HATs and add ons with PiJuice

https://www.pijuice.com/

The Spark Electron was released a few days ago, giving anyone with the Arduino IDE the ability to send data out over a GSM network. Of course, the Electron is just a GSM module tied to a microcontroller, and you can do the same thing with a Pi, some components, and a bit of wire.

http://hackaday.io/project/4462-raspberry-pi-fona-pihat