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Thirty nine and a half! The gloomy spectre of the approaching forty is going to be sweetened by the best new products from the Botland store offer.
Substitute topics such as the meaning of dreams or repairing the world are the hits of parties at this time of night, when no one particularly wants to talk anymore. At what’s New at Botland series we often joke that this topic is the weather. But how can we not talk about it when it’s so cold outside? Afterwards we usually compare it to hot news and this time will be no different. Note at the start – t he first two are about the RP2040 and it’s an equipment that doesn’t have the slightest problem with cooling. Let’s go.
World premiere: Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT
Well, here it is! A new version of the Power over Ethernet HAT, the Raspberry Pi PoE+ HAT (with a splash) is about to hit the market. It will be available in multiple pieces of various sizes. If you haven’t seen the release post yet, you should definitely take a look at it. There’s no need to duplicate content – we know you’d prefer the Raspberry Pi 5, but familiarizing yourself with this new accessory from Raspberry Pi certainly won’t punish you with wasted time. All the necessary information can be found right there and us the product page in the store.
Arduino Nano RP2040 Connect
It’s nice to see when friends live in harmony. Raspberry Pi and Arduino platforms are hard to confuse not only for functional reasons, but also for image reasons. Although they so often appear side by side, they are quite different – the simplest way to put it is that Raspberry Pi is mainly a minicomputer, while Arduino is mainly a programming platform. The momentousness of the news of RPi and Arduino’s collaboration for the world of electronics, programmers and makers is almost the same as co-branding in pairs such as GoPro and Red Bull, Uber and Spotify or Apple and Mastercard.
The new item bolstering the Nano series is essentially a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller-based module that connects a made-in-UK chip with additional sensors and wireless connectivity. On board the Arduino Nano Connect are a 6-axis sensor IMU (and the IMU has machine learning capability, which equates to additional sensing algorithms), u-blox Nina for WiFi / Bluetooth wireless communication, an additional microphone and RGB LED. We also took care of the version with soldered goldpin connectors. You can work offline with Arduino IDE and online with Arduino IDE Cloud. Nano is, as it is, nano sized – board measures only 45 x 18 mm.
And here you can find other RP2040 microcontroller boards.
New Robobloq educational robots
Do you remember lovely Robobloq Qobo snail?
He is back in a new, blue color version and it took him a while, but he is a snail after all. And since he is slow, there’s also a fast one with him – Qobo is accompanied by the Robobloq Coding Express educational train. A great proposal to consider, especially when the Children’s Day is just around the corner. And the coolest thing is that you don’t need a computer, tablet, smartphone or any screen at all to code. Although you can do it anyway.
Qobo
A full charge of Qobo’s battery will be enough for three hours of playing around the board in the form of a map. Children will help our hero to determine the route he will take – all he has to do is arrange the cards with the code. There are 30 of them in the set, and apart from that we have 15 training lessons at our disposal. In the game mode Qobo moves on the coding cards, in the free mode we scan the cards to memorize them and move freely wherever we want. It is also possible to work with a computer – you just need to download an application, USB cable and picture blocks. But you don’t necessarily have to decide on it with your kids when you prefer “unplugged modes”.
Coding Express
Qobo’s Coding Express tile trail train uses colorful command stickers, and made of durable and tactile beech wood, the tracks take it safely where you want it to go. It’s the kind of unfussy train that we can even turn into a police car. Completely without taps, with a sound and infrared sensor, so it can be sped up with a real whistle like the realest platform driver. Little railwaymen can control the train in two ways – in track mode there is music, treasure hunt or ambulance waiting for them, and in free mode there is off-track driving.
