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Purveyors of fine Maker goods worldwide and creators of fun, useful, and educational electronics for all skill levels. Come play with us! 🏴‍☠️

Sheffield, UK
Joined January 2011
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2 years
NEW PRODUCT ALERT: Badger 2040 🦡 A cute, hackable, RP2040-based badge(r) with speedy E Ink display, made in honour of @Raspberry_Pi 's upcoming 10th birthday 🎉
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5 years
Follow and retweet for a chance to win one of five shiny new Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB), a Pibow Case, & Power Supply! Entries valid until 9pm (BST) 5th July. We’ll pick five winners at random. GO GO GO! 💥
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9 months
This isn't the greatest Pi launch in the world, it's just a tribute. Coming October 23rd, the all-new Raspberry Pi 5! Read all about it and sign up for launch here:
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5 years
[sad music playing] It's the last giveaway, but... it's a Raspberry Pi 4 Starter Kit, Unicorn HAT HD, Fan SHIM, enamel pins, and stickers. Plus 4x £50 gift cards to be won! Follow and retweet to enter, and we'll pick the winners at 10pm-ish (BST) tonight!
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3 years
Today is a very exciting day for us! We’re setting sail to our brand new warehouse - it’s going to be a busy week or two setting up!
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3 years
After 8+ years we finally got around to the small jobs, like putting a proper sign on Pirate Towers 4.0
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1 year
NEW PRODUCT ALERT: Badger 2040 W. A programmable badge with speedy B&W E Ink display. Now feat. @Raspberry_Pi Pico W for wi-fi shenanigans!
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5 years
Great performance with 4K H265-encoded content running off a USB 3.0-connected SSD on the new @Raspberry_Pi 4 with @LibreELEC .
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2 years
It's got to a point now where automatic bots trying to snag Pi 4 units for scalping/reselling is so bad that as an experiment we listed 20 units for sale at 8:32pm and manually reviewed and cancelled (returning to stock) any orders that were obviously scalpers... 1/n
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2 years
How do you steer this thing?!
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7 years
NEW PRODUCT: Say Hello to Inky pHAT a low-energy, high-falutin' 3 colour electronic paper display for @Raspberry_Pi
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4 years
Some voxel terrain experimenting this weekend... #32blit
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2 years
This is fine.
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6 years
Game Boy Camera Canon EF Lens Mount:
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3 years
Incredibly, we just took the 500,000th order on our retail shop - that's *half a million* orders we've picked, packed, supported and shipped over the last nine years - phew! Thanks so much to everybody who's supported our little boat over the years and helped us get this far 🚣‍♀️
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2 years
The smallest and worst HDMI display ever:
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5 years
So many pixels...
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5 years
Raspberry Pi all the way down. We’ve automated counting and packing of nuts and bolts for our Fan SHIM using vibratory feeders, break-beam sensors, our Automation HAT, a bag sealer machine, and carefully honed pieces of cardboard and rubber bands.
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2 years
Coming soon! 👀
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5 years
Aaaaaand here we go! 🎉 It’s day one of seven in our 7th birthday giveaways. Up for grabs is a HyperPixel 4.0 Touch bundle worth over £140 or one of four £50 Pimoroni gift cards! Follow and retweet to be in with a chance. Winners selected randomly tonight at 10pm-ish!
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5 years
32blit: our retro-inspired handheld with open-source firmware. Go back, way back, to the start, with a single hardware platform and a great set of game creation tools. Find out more at Kickstarter: #32blit
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Pico-8 by @lexaloffle running on our new HyperPixel 4.0 Square and a Keybow with the Pico-8 layout as controls. #pico8 #raspberrypi
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5 years
Day 5/7! Today, we're giving away an Inky wHAT e-paper display bundle worth £150, with Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB) and accessories, enamel pins, and stickers. Plus there's another four £50 gift cards! Follow and retweet to enter, and we'll pick the winners at 10pm-ish (BST) tonight!
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🕹 Day 4/7 is the big kahuna! A Picade bundle, with Picade 10", Raspberry Pi 4 (4GB), PSU, SD card, enamel pins, and stickers. Plus there's another four £50 gift cards! #retrogames #retrogaming Follow and retweet to enter, and we'll pick the winners at 10pm-ish (BST) tonight!
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5 years
ERMAGERD! HDMI _and_ HyperPixel 4.0 dual displays on Pi 4!!! Game changer.
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2 years
NEW PRODUCT ALERT: Weather HAT. A meteorological @Raspberry_Pi HAT designed to make building your own custom weather station a breeze (or a squall, or a gale) ☀⛈
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3 years
NEW PRODUCT ALERT! Tiny 2040 - a little but fierce USB-C dev board based around the RP2040 chip (as featured on @Raspberry_Pi Pico). 8MB flash! Rainbow LED! Two whole buttons!
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6 years
WHAAA?! The @Raspberry_Pi Zero W is now available with a pre-soldered header. It’s the Zero WH! Boom! >
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5 years
🎉 Day 3/7 in our birthday bonanza giveaways, and we're giving away *two* Keybow mini mechanical keyboard kit bundles worth £70 each, plus four £50 gift cards. Follow and retweet to enter, and we'll pick the winners at 10pm-ish (BST) tonight!
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4 years
Raspberry Pi 400 is here! Raspberry Pi 400 is a complete Raspberry Pi 4-based personal computer, fully integrated into a keyboard for ease of setup and use.
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It's the penultimate day of shenanigans! Today, it's an amazing Enviro+ citizen science kit up for grabs, with enamel pins & stickers, and the usual four £50 gift cards... Follow and retweet to enter, and we'll pick the winners at 10pm-ish (BST) tonight!
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3 years
With the pick and place lines moved we’ve left behind Manton St, which served us well for 6 years. Goodbye old friend 🥲
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3 years
A subset of Markdown will soon be supported in our Pico Graphics library! Nice.
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NEW PI ALERT! Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W: A big quad-core upgrade for the littlest Pi! 🔥
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7 years
!!NEW PRODUCT RANGE!! Introducing Bearables! 🐻 🌰 🦊 🌼 A range of woodland-themed wearable LED badges and sensors. Wear the badges on their own, or connect them to one of the sensors with conductive thread to bring them to life.
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5 years
NEW RANGE! Pirate Audio. The ultimate all-in-one audio range for @Raspberry_Pi ! High-quality digital audio, album art display, playback buttons, and your choice of output: headphone amp, line-out, stereo 3W amp, or mini speaker. Get your groove on! 🕺
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Tomorrow. #pirateaudio
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🎂 Day 2/7 in our giveaways is a brill Breakout Garden bundle worth ~£175, with Pi 4 and accessories, a HAT, RGB matrix, 0.96” LCD, BME280, 6DoF, light/colour sensor, and trackball breakouts, or 1 of 4 £50 gift cards. Whew! Follow + RT to enter. Winners picked at 10pm tonight!
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5 years
Hand placed by @GregDavill Hand-placed. Hand. Placed. #supercon #insanity
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NEW RASPBERRY PI ALERT! 🎉 The all-new @Raspberry_Pi 4 has up to 4GB RAM, 4K video, dual display support, gigabit ethernet, USB 3.0, and it’s got 2x the performance of the previous Pi. #pi4 Grab one here:
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4 years
Lawks! A new camera for the @Raspberry_Pi ? You betcha! The Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera has a larger 12MP sensor, C/CS lens mount, and adjustable focus!
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9 years
How to setup a headless Raspberry Pi Zero without a monitor or keyboard:
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5 years
Shhh… 🤫 #comingsoon
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NEW RASPBERRY PI ALERT! Raspberry Pi Pico - a low-cost, high performance microcontroller board starring RPi's very own game-changing chip - the RP2040.
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7 years
Incredible Pixel Art @Raspberry_Pi by @retronator (with wallpaper options!):
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NEW PRODUCT: Hyper Pixel the cute touchscreen that is the perfect fit for your @Raspberry_Pi
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8 years
Lovely @Raspberry_Pi #Bramble cluster. The rainbow cables are a nice touch.
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5 years
Heatsink cases for Raspberry Pi 4 are now available in blissful blue and gorgeous green!
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NEW PRODUCT ALERT: Inky Frame 4.0" - a neat, petite @Raspberry_Pi Pico W-powered E Ink display with wi-fi 🖼️ Great for easy-on-the-eye home readouts and vibrant, seven colour graphical shenanigans. 🌈
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4 years
NEW PRODUCT! TinyPICO ESP32 Development Board. This tiny, thumb-sized development board has a dual-core ESP32 chip with Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on it, and comes with MicroPython pre-installed!
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4 years
Give your video calls a makeover, with this selection of over 100 empty sets from the BBC Archive.
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6 months
Unbothered. Shielded. Happy. PCIe Lane. Impedance-matched. Flourishing.
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It’s a @europlacer ATOM3 - a massive upgrade to our PCB production line and the first one installed in the UK! Five times the speed of our current pick and place machine. Let’s make some boards!
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...some order history with us so that it's clear you are not just scalping Pi 4 to sell on eBay. This is the best way we can think of to serve the customers who have supported us in the past while not feeding the greedy trolls. 4/n
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4 years
Nice! 😍 Delicious 5.7", 7 colour Inky - coming very soon!
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7 years
Choose to make a robot friend, a sleek mood light, a mini radio or ... any project you can think of #PiZeroW
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5 years
Another - @Raspberry_Pi HAT enters the prototype arena. Will it emerge unchanged?
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5 years
Even more shinies!
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NEW PRODUCT ALERT: Pico GFX Pack - a fun, retro LCD with RGBW backlight and epic graphing calculator vibes 📈🌈
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4 years
Nebulous.
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New @Raspberry_Pi , old meme! Breakout Garden 400s are being packed as we speak - if you sign up for the stock notification you'll get pinged when they're ready to go!
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...we ended up having to cancel 27 orders in total until we were (at least reasonably) happy that the remaining orders were all genuine customers. This is madness and makes it very hard to serve the people who matter to us the most! 2/n
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Get ready for the new Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4! You can pre-order yours today with optional IO dev board and wireless antenna - ships in November!
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NEW PRODUCTS! Our super-cute Inky pHAT e-paper displays for @Raspberry_Pi are now available in TWO new colour schemes! In addition to red/black/white, there's now yellow/black/white, and good ole' black/white. 🐙 #raspberrypi Snag one here:
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Is Twitter still here? Can we release a new thing? 👀
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Limor Fried, @adafruit 's owner, 1st female engineer on the cover of @Wired , advocate for Open Source Hardware, total heroine!! #IWED17
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🚢 NEW PRODUCT ALERT 🏴‍☠️ Inventor HAT Mini is a versatile motor/servo/audio @Raspberry_Pi add-on for powering moving contraptions, apparatuses and gizmos 💡⚡
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We've been discussing ways to fix this and it seems we have no choice but (for the moment) limit sales only to existing customers - so starting tomorrow you will need to be logged into your account to buy stock of Raspberry Pi 4 and that account must have... 3/n
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We got LED noodles! Get them while they're warm and strangely alluring! This is in no way related to @guru wanting a bunch to dangle around @emfcamp !
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1 year
Due to a comical error or over abundance of optimism we have 95,962 2x20 GPIO headers in stock. Anyone for a pack of 400? 🤣
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5 years
🎂 We’re seven! Get 20% off* Pimoroni loot with code SEVEN for the next seven days; a collection of about 250 products! We’re also running seven great giveaways, daily. More on that soon… *Excludes shipping. Ends Monday 26th August.
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🚢 NEW PRODUCT ALERT! 🚢 Inky Impression 7.3" - a delicious, XL 800 x 480 pixel seven colour E Ink™ display for @Raspberry_Pi . 🎨🖌
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5 years
Take this in whatever context you wish...
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4 years
Merry Christmas to our wonderful Maker-friends and customers. May all your stockings be filled with side cutters, solder, breadboards, and microcontrollers!🌲
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We'll be dropping an e-mail to our newsletter subscribers with more details so make sure you're signed up if you aren't already! We <3 all of our lovely customers and will do our best to shower you with all the Pi's we can muster. Land ho! fin. 5/5
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5 years
Our final @iFixit giveaway is a big one! You can win a Pro Tech Toolkit and messenger bag bundle worth over £90! Just follow us (if you don’t already) and retweet this tweet to enter. We’ll pick a winner at random tomorrow (Oct. 12th) at noon (BST).
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🦄 NEW PRODUCT ALERT 🌌 Cosmic Unicorn - a magical 32 x 32 LED monster matrix for conveying information fabulously *and* ginormously. Powered by @Raspberry_Pi Pico W!
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*Almost* there with a running example following @geerlingguy ’s excellent blog. Coral Edge TPU and NVMe Base.
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5 years
Nothing to see here. Move along please... 😜
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4 years
My new all-in-one is 🔥 🔥 🔥
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4 years
Teeny-tiny addressable (WS2812/NeoPixel) LED fairy lights. We’re in love. 🤩
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This is *incredible*, truly hacking for hacking's sake:
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@guru “should we say fingertip not fingernail sized?” @jankmammal “is it stamp sized?” @guru “great guess.”
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NEW PRODUCT! HyperPixel 4.0 Square. Square is the new rectangle! A 4.0”, 720x720px, IPS, touchscreen display for @Raspberry_Pi . Great for custom interfaces, control panels, @pico8console , and more! (That photo isn’t Photoshopped. It looks _that_ good!)
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COMING SOON: Round 1.3" SPI LCD breakout with IPS (integrated pizza system). Almost finished cooking! 🍕
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Yep, we're definitely up to *something*... #32blit
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Credit card-sized computer confirmed!! We're confident this is the world's thinnest @Raspberry_Pi !
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2 years
The signal fires from @Raspberry_Pi say Pico W are coming, and in greater numbers! You can start ordering now. Limit is now *10* per order.
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Here comes the...?
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We're delighted to introduce the brand-new HyperPixel 4.0 for @Raspberry_Pi . It's got a bigger 4.0" display, with IPS (wide viewing angles), and there's touch and non-touch versions! It's the best small display you can get for Raspberry Pi. Buy one here:
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ISS Docking Simulator:
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NEW PRODUCT! Aluminium heatsink case for @Raspberry_Pi 4! Get 10-15°C of completely silent passive cooling. This slick anodised aluminium case comes in black or gold, and even has a thermal pad and handy little allen key included!
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Those talented @Smarticase folk back with a slick IM case for the @Raspberry_Pi touchscreen
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One of the crew got a nice surprise in their beer box subscription this month @Raspberry_Pi . Should have been 3.14% tho @brewyorkbeer :D
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