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Getting your Raspberry Pi to output the right HDMI resolution
Bertrand wrote a short and sweet tutorial explaining how to get the correct resolution on any HDMI TV with a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian. If you've ever struggled trying to get your pixels to look perfectly square, this article is for you :)
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Cases and enclosures for the Raspberry Pi computer
Kristen Turner of Ponoko.com has written a nice blog post about how we apply Ponoko's laser cutting services to the production of our Raspberry Pi cases. Drop by the Ponoko blog and read all about the inside story
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Nwazet Key Lime Pi - Wire Scorpion
$11.1
The 'Pi Wire Scorpion' kit is designed to provide a practical enclosure for our 'Nwazet Key Lime Pi' breakout board. Use it as you build your project or as part of a final installation: it will do a great job at securing wires in place thanks to nine built-in zip-tie cutouts. The 'Pi Wire Scorpion' kit accommodates all the features of the 'Nwazet Key Lime Pi', works well with right-angle and straight pin headers and includes all the essential cables and connectors needed to complete your project quickly and neatly and your choice of premium jumper wires.
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Nwazet Pi Head Case - 'Classic Black' Series
$25
Nwazet's 'Pi Head Cases' are designed to give your Raspberry Pi computer a unique look and personality. 'Pi Head Cases' are customizable with a choice of passive color filters which really come to life when illuminated by our LED backlight. The backlight itself features two big 10mm LEDs available in five different colors. That's dozens of unique combinations to choose from!
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Nwazet Mean Crafty Pi Monster - Lighting Board
$6.5
This simple backlighting kit looks fantastic inside of our 'Pi Head Cases' and comes with two big 10mm diffused LEDs. The difficult part will be choosing the color ;)
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Nwazet Key Lime Pi: GPIO - Analog - FTDI - Power
$9
GPIO, analog inputs, FTDI serial connector and external power? Oh My!
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Nwazet Mean Crafty Pi Monster
Nwazet is celebrating the launch of Minecraft for the Raspeberry Pi with an appropriately themed enclosure:
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Fixing popping/clicking audio on Raspberry Pi
"I’m working on a security-related project with the Raspberry Pi and have encountered an annoying problem with the on-board sound output. I’ve managed to work around this, so thought it might be helpful the share my experiences with others in the same situation."
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Pop-free sound from a Raspberry Pi running XBMC
Nice post by Dave Townsend about eliminating audio 'pop' sounds when using the Raspberry Pi's stereo ouput. We use XBMC every day @ nwazet, streaming music from KEXP radio so we're delighted about this improvement.
"I’ve been in the process of setting up a Raspberry Pi in my office so I can play my mp3 collection through my old stereo. It’s generally gone well and I have to take my hat off to the developers of Raspbmc which makes setting up XBMC on the Pi ridiculously easy and fast. It didn’t take me long to have Airplay set up and running as well as being able to use my phone to remote control XBMC to play things direct from my music library sitting on my Synology NAS. Quite a nice setup really.
Just one problem. I play the music out through the Pi’s audio jack which doesn’t have a fantastic DAC. The big noticeable issue is audible pops every-time XBMC starts and stops playing. For Airplay this isn’t too bad, you get a pop when it first starts but only another after you stop playing. Playing direct on XBMC though you get two pops between each track as it stops playing one and starts the next. Very annoying. It’s a pretty well known problem and the best solution so far is to simply never stop playing. If you have a player that uses pulseaudio then you can configure it to keep the audio stream going even when idle. Of course it isn’t that easy, XBMC doesn’t use pulseaudio on the Pi. There is some work going on that might change that but for now it is very buggy to the point of being unusable. It seemed I was stuck … or was I?"
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Nwazet Pecan Pi Relays
$22.5
The Pecan Pi Relays kit is designed to be interfaced with the Raspberry Pi's GPIO connector and features six normally open relays, each capable of switching up to 16A @ 250VAC. The relays are rated for at least one million cycles. The Pecan Pi Relays kit requires an external power supply capable of providing ~800mA @ 5V, such as the Nwazet Pi Power Supply, since the Raspberry Pi cannot supply enough current through its GPIO connector. The relay board can optionally power the Raspberry Pi. The kit is designed so that other boards can be chained through it. It is also easy to solder, even for a beginner.