UUGear news
Last week we announced our new product Zero4U, and today this nice little one is officially in stock. Tomorrow we will ship out the first batch of Zero4U 🙂
Zero4U: 4-Port USB Hub for Raspberry Pi
Acrylic case that holds Raspberry Pi Zero and Zero4U
About two months ago, we released our new 7-port USB hub for Raspberry Pi. Today we are going to announce another new product: Zero4U!
As implied by its name, this new product is designed for Raspberry Pi Zero. More specifically, it is a 4-port USB hub for Raspberry Pi Zero and it is designed to build Raspberry Pi Zero with 4 USB ports. This USB hub has 4 pogo pins on its back, and they will contact to the testing pads on Raspberry Pi Zero, if you mount them together, back to back. These pogo pins will establish the data and power connections between USB hub and Raspberry Pi Zero, so you don’t need to solder wires between them any more.
Zero4U: 4-Port USB Hub for Raspberry Pi Zero
Zero4U gets powered from the Raspberry Pi Zero, and powers all USB devices
Dear friends, it has been a while not having news from us. Today we are very excited to announce our new product: the new 7-Port USB hub for Raspberry Pi 🙂
You may still remember that UUGear’s first product was a 7-port USB hub, which had been launched at year 2014. Comparing to the old version, this new version of 7-port USB hub is compatible to all Raspberry Pi models, including model A, B, A+, B+, 2B and the newly released Raspberry Pi Zero! This USB hub has the same size with Raspberry Pi A, B, B+ and 2B, and has mounting holes for different models of Raspberry Pi.
This USB hub has multiple transaction translators (MTT), which support USB 2.0 high speed transactions (480 Mbps) on each USB port. The 7 USB ports are symmetrically placed aside the 3 edges, giving more room for each USB port and avoid the collision between connected USB devices.
Two mountable pogo pins are also included in the package, and could be optionally used to back-power your Raspberry Pi when back-feeding from upstream USB port is not supported (Raspberry Pi B+ and 2B).
The 7 output pins on board could be used to electronically monitor the port usage status. They are in 3.3V level and can be directly connect to the GPIO pins on Raspberry Pi.
If you are interested in more details about this product, you can check its product page, or view its user manual.
The price for this USB hub is 480 CZK (~20 USD, or 17.7 EUR, or 13.9 GBP). It is in stock today and you can order it from our store.
Now it is possible to put this USB hub with Raspberry Pi together into an Acrylic case:
If you also have Witty Pi on hand, this Acrylic case may be perfect for you 🙂
Today we announce the acrylic case for Witty Pi + Raspberry Pi, and there are two colors available (clear and dark brown).
If you need both Witty Pi and the case, you can order the “Witty Pi + Case” kit for better price. See kit with clear case and kit with dark brown case.
Here is the assembly guide: http://www.uugear.com/portfolio/assembly-guide-acrylic-case-for-witty-pi-raspberry-pi/
We hope you like them 🙂
We announced our new product “Witty Pi” about a month ago, and sent out a few samples to some friends that are interested in writing a review. Such as Michael Horne from recantha.co.uk and dbv from forum-raspberrypi.de. The feedback are quite good: all reviewers like the features and think the pricing is reasonable. According to the reviews, the only point that needs to be improved is the software, which is in 1.00 version and has very basic functionality. We will of course improve the software and add more new features, such as setting a repeatable startup/shutdown schedule, a GUI for better interaction or even a web interface for remote settings etc.
We opened the reservation process for Witty Pi since two weeks ago. Until the moment I write this post, there are already 276 units of Witty Pi get ordered. We appreciate the customers who trust us and back-ordered Witty Pi, and we work very hard to accelerate the stocking. Finally, we made it today 🙂 We are happy to announce that Witty Pi is in stock now, and more batches are being produced and are coming soon!
We will ship out the first batch of Witty Pi tomorrow. Below is a picture of the package content:
If you have not ordered yet, you can order it now 🙂
Two weeks ago we announced our new product: Witty Pi, and now we open the reservation process for this wonderful product. That means you could back-order Witty Pi for you now!
We still need some time to prepare for the shipping, so the first shipping of Witty Pi is scheduled on 18th May. The package will contain a Witty Pi board, a CR2032 button battery, 4 copper standoffs and 8 copper screws.
As we mentioned before, the unit price for Witty Pi is 380 CZK (about 15 USD, 13.8 EUR or 10 GBP). This is a very competing price and we hope this wonderful product is affordable to more people.
If you are interested, the reservation link is here: http://www.uugear.com/product/witty-pi-realtime-clock-and-power-management-for-raspberry-pi/
It has been a while since our previous post. We were not sleeping, instead we were working hard on new products. Today we are glad to announce that one of our new products: Witty Pi is coming soon!
It is tiny PCB that could be mounted on your Raspberry Pi (model A+, B+ and Raspberry Pi 2 supported). With Witty Pi, your Raspberry Pi has realtime clock (RTC) and power management on board, and you get some amazing new features:
Raspberry Pi uses micro SD card as its “hard-drive”, and it writes date to it from time to time. If you suddenly cut Raspberry Pi’s power without halting all processes in the system, the micro SD card may lose power during the date writing, and has the chance to be damaged.
Witty Pi adds a power switch for Raspberry Pi, and you can turn on/off the Pi properly, without worrying about the micro SD card. Witty Pi’s daemon process will halt all processes for you, before really cut off the power. What’s more, if you shutdown your Pi with “sudo shutdown -h now” command, or you choose “Shutdown” in the desktop environment, Witty Pi will detect that and fully cut off your Pi’s power after a few seconds. It is true that Raspberry Pi doesn’t consume much power after shutdown, but there are still some. If you have some USB peripherals connected on your Pi, they will also consume power even you shutdown your Pi. With the help from Witty Pi, your Pi’s power can be fully cut off and all its USB peripherals will not consume power anymore. Cool, isn’t it?
The ability to schedule shutdown and startup are also very useful. You don’t have to wait til midnight to shutdown your Pi, or wake up very early to turn on your Pi 🙂
Also don’t forget Witty Pi has RTC on board, it can remember the correct time for your Raspberry Pi. Even without the Internet access, your Pi will know the correct time, because Witty Pi will synchronize the time to your Pi’s system.
The retail price for Witty Pi will be 380 CZK (about 15 USD, or 13.8 EUR, or 10 GBP). Besides the Witty Pi board, the package also includes a CR2032 button battery, 4 cooper standoffs and 8 cooper screws that can help you to fix your Witty Pi with Raspberry Pi.
The exact date to ship the first batch of Witty Pi is not decided yet, but the reservation process will be opened on our website very soon. Please keep an eye on our website, or follow us on Tweeter, Facebook or Google+ if you are interested.
Update on 2015-04-18:
Here is a video to introduce Witty Pi’s cool features:
Today we are glad to announce that our warehouse is now moved to Prague, Czech Republic!
The reason that we move our warehouse from Hong Kong to Prague is because some European countries charge custom tax when the shipping starts from outside of Europe. After moving the warehouse, all customers in European Union do not need to pay the custom fee. We will use Czech Post to ship parcels, which is still fast in Europe and is much cheaper. Thanks for that, now we only charge for 100 CZK (about 5 USD) flat rate for worldwide shipping!
What’s more, we also start to offer free shipping to customers in Czech Republic! If you shipping address is within Czech Republic, you will see the free shipping option during the checkout. Enjoy it!
Our 7-Port USB Hub has the same PCB size than Raspberry Pi, so it can be easily mounted over or under the Pi. If you have a case for Raspberry Pi that can have its top cover removed, you can put the hub and the Pi together into the case:
It can help in some cases, but the hub is not well protected yet. Many customers suggested us to design a suitable case to hold both the Pi and the hub, so we launched this project.
This project includes some children projects, as we are actually designing different types of cases. The first sub-project that could be demonstrated is this one, which opens its design and is free for download and print with 3D printer.
There are other sibling projects on going and you will see the news very soon.
After more than 3 weeks waiting, we finally have the second batch of USB Hub for Raspberry Pi in stock. Now it is immediately buyable in the store. We are sorry for letting you wait, and thanks for the patience.
UUGear 7-Port USB hub for Raspberry Pi 7-Port USB hub for Raspberry Pi