This looks good1 and cheap too, a GPIO board for the raspberry pi for development using the GPIO (general purpose input / output) pins. So nice and easy to plug your other devices you are building in to the raspberry pi.
Maplin are also selling the slice of pi2 (which I have but have not assembled yet) and the humble pi3 prototyping board for doing arduino style hackery on your raspberry pi...
No progress with my arduino or raspberry pi over the last couple of days, there has been too much on TV! Next home development work for me will involve putting some redis caching on this blog, to try and keep it more available (I am running it on the super cheap right now, it's costing my less than a pound a month to keep it going) and then putting more functionality back into the Folkestone Gerald. I removed the calendars and listings and things from there when I moved hosts.
arduino: Microcontroller, hardware prototyping platform, a tiny specialised computer.
raspberry pi: Credit card sized super cheap computer, awesome.
Paul Clarke's weblog - I live in Hythe near Folkestone. Married to Clare + dad to two, I am a full-stack web developr, + I do js / nodejs, some ruby, other languages etc. I like pubs, running, restaurants, home automation + other diy stuff, history, family tree stuff, TV, squirrels, pirates, lego, + time travel.