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Coming Soon: OpenElectrons PiStorms

PiStormsOpenElectrons are continuing their development of awesome stuff for the RPi.  This new product, the PiStorms is a “shield” for the RPi that allows you to connect up to 4 EV3/NXT motors and up to 4 EV3/NXT sensors.  It has a screen on it and can be programmed using a Python API.

The RPi communicates with the PiStorms shield through I2C and SPI.  Internally, it is similar in design to the EVShield, which works with the Arduino.  The PiStorms will works with RPi Model A, B, B+ & Pi 2.

You can pre-order one now, by navigating to the product page.

About Xander

Xander Soldaat is a Software Engineer and former Infrastructure Architect. He loves building and programming robots. He recently had the opportunity to turn his robotics hobby into his profession and has started working for Robomatter, the makers of ROBOTC and Robot Virtual Words.