A really nice introduction to the Raspberry Pi by Popular Mechanics. Lots of helpful tips about how to get going for beginners and a few ideas for potential starter projects. Definitely worth reading if you just got a Pi and have no idea what you’re doing! Read the article
Jan Krueger has written an in-depth tutorial in connecting up a bare LM75 temperature sensor to the Raspberry Pi. Plenty of photographs to show the connections and a table to show the pin connections. He has then used the Pi4J library to talk to it. I don’t think I’ve read anything by Jan before and he’s certainly one to look out for in future. Read the tutorial
Amazon are currently selling the Kindle e-book edition of the official Raspberry Pi User Guide (by Gareth Halfacree and Eben Upton) for £2.99. Get it while the price lasts!
Maplin is now stocking (online only, I think) a nifty little GPIO breakout board with push terminals. They say that it’s similar to the Pi Cobbler (which looks-wise it isn’t but functionality wise, I suppose it is… a bit). The good news is that it’s only £5.99 which is cheaper than I’ve seen elsewhere for the same (or similar) products. Visit the Maplin website here
James Jesudason has written a great blog post on setting up the Raspberry Pi as a web server using the Flask application framework. Read the tutorial here.
Simon Monk has written an excellent, balanced review of the Quick2Wire combo and analog boards. He goes through the steps required to run a small test and sums up his likes and dislikes at the bottom of the post. Definitely worth checking out. Read the review here
