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Piratical Tales From Pimoroni
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Piratical Tales From Pimoroni is the company blog at blog.pimoroni.com, writing about hardware and programming. Since 2016, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 9 times, most often “Raspberry Pi 3 – First Look”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (7) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Pimoroni's blog for its Raspberry Pi coverage, including the Pi 3 launch, Pi 4 thermals and Fan SHIM results, Pico packs, and its account of the Arduino reseller dispute.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 7 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
We are a company of makers and educators based in Sheffield, UK. Creators of the Pibow case for Raspberry Pi and the UK's largest Adafruit reseller. We manufacture all our own products locally.
Most-linked posts?
- Raspberry Pi 3 – First Look2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-02-29
- Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-08-11
What Hacker News says?
We took a look at the new Pi 3 in our blog post here: http://blog.pimoroni.com/raspberry-pi-3/ We have them available shipping worldwide in our store! https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/raspberry-pi-3
Comment linking /raspberry-pi-3/
on “Raspberry Pi 3 on Sale”Submitted Why we won't be selling Genuino or Arduino any more as a story · 382 points
HN discussionOther vendors are making dev boards based on the RP2040 at different sizes. SparkFun looks to have some smaller form factors, though I can't see wireless listed on board: https://www.sparkfun.com/news/3707 Pimoroni has a range of "packs" (rather than Hats) on the way, including a wireless one : https://blog.pimoroni.com/pico/
Comment linking /pico/
on “Raspberry Pi Pico and RP2040 Microcontroller”Submitted Raspberry Pi 3 – First Look as a story · 26 points
HN discussion"a blog from someone who had milled out the keyboard and integrated a Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ into it" Us, then? Haha! The dates check out: https://blog.pimoroni.com/putting-a-raspberry-pi-3-a-in-the-...
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on “Designing Raspberry Pi 400”In all fairness both sides seem to have engaged in sleazy behavior throughout the years. To me this whole situation was nothing more than a hizzy fit by Massimo Banzi whose enormous ego won't allow him to see the forest for the trees. Somebody already posted the story of Hernando Barragán so now I'll post some of the strong arm tactics that they (the alleged less sleazy arduino) employ against their partner reseller…
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on “Arduino.cc and Arduino.org have settled their differences”That's fair, but they don't seem to have a great track record with the resellers either. https://blog.pimoroni.com/why-we-wont-be-selling-genuino-ard... https://hackaday.com/2015/04/15/arduino-vs-arduino-the-resel... https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/08/02/arduino-federico-musto-...
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on “Arduino Pro hardware is not open-source hardware”@Daneel_ heres some initial figures from pimoroni: "The built-in Wireless LAN and Bluetooth and the more powerful processor mean that the Raspberry Pi 3 draws about twice the current of its predecessor when under heavy CPU load (750mA vs 360mA)." ~ http://blog.pimoroni.com/raspberry-pi-3/
Comment linking /raspberry-pi-3/
on “Raspberry Pi 3 already available for purchase in Australia”You really don't need a heatsink as well, the SoC has a heatspreader pre-installed. Fan SHIM will take your Pi 4 well below throttle temperatures even at full load! We posted some results on our blog (there is a more in-depth post to come soon): https://blog.pimoroni.com/raspberry-pi-4-thermals-and-fan-sh...
Comment linking /raspberry-pi-4-thermals-and-fan-shim/
on “Show HN: Fan Shim – Active Cooling for Raspberry Pi 4”