Trystan Jones at www.crennsmind.com did a presentation on connecting electronics to the GPIO and has released both the presentation and associated code files to the public domain over at GitHub. crenn/RPi-Connecting_Electronics · GitHub. The presentation is a very good, succinct,…
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Book Review: Quick and Easy Guide to #RaspberryPi – Do Not Buy
The Quick and Easy Guide to RaspberryPi Rating: 2/10 I previously featured this book when it was free over the course of one weekend. I’ve now read it. I’m sorry for anyone who has downloaded and spent time reading this…
HydroGadget – Irrigation system using a #RaspberryPi / @Raspberry_Pi
Over at SmokingCircuits, they are developing a board called the HydroGadget. Here’s what the man running the hardware side of the project says about it: “The concept of HydroGadget is an internet connected home irrigation timer and controller. What separates…
OCR releases PDF resources for the #RaspberryPi, ICT and Computing / @Raspberry_Pi
OCR have released their PDF teaching resources for the Raspberry Pi. These are well-produced, high-quality documents that they should be proud of producing. Whether you’re in a classroom environment or not, I recommend taking a look at them. Beware, the…
Free on Kindle this weekend : #RaspberryPi User Guide from Echo Bay Books
Just for this weekend, Echo Bay Books’ publication “The Quick and Easy Guide to Raspberry Pi” is free for Kindle from Amazon. UK people click here to get it from the Kindle store on Amazon.co.uk. International people click here to get…
Simple ADC with the #RaspberryPi
Stewart Russell at “We Saw a Chicken” has done a very comprehensive tutorial on using a simple analog to digital converter (ADC) via SPI to read a temperature sensor with Python. It is based on the work for the Quite…
How Arduino is open-sourcing imagination
This is a talk from a TED conference by Massimo Banzi, who helped invent the Arduino. You can read the original article on GeekBoy.it or just watch the video below. Now, I’d never heard of TED, so here’s what Wikipedia says about…
#Raspberry Pi to Arduino via GPIO UART
With most Arduinos (and compatibles) there is a USB port. However, communicating over it introduces some latency. Communicating directly via UART serial is faster. Here’s a tutorial on how to make it happen for you. Raspberry Pi and Arduino via GPIO…
Control an #Arduino from a #RaspberryPi using Node.js
A fascinating article/tutorial about using the Node.js Javascript server to communicate with a Firmata-enabled Arduino. Read the article
OCR to publish Tutorials with Google’s free #RaspberryPi initiative
Edited from this article on the OCR website. OCR has joined with Google in their initiative to hand out thousands of free Raspberry Pi computers to schools across the country. To help teachers and students get started with the Pi and…