Interfacing(USB – RS232 – I2c -ISP) Projects

LapPi A Raspberry Pi Netbook

LapPi – A Raspberry Pi Netbook

The Raspberry Pi is a remarkable machine. Lightweight, powerful, and until now it was completely tethered to a wall socket. The LapPi is built to free the Pi! It’s made from a mixture of spare parts, unallocated electronics, and scrapped components & cables I have built it in response to the Raspberry Pi Challenge. The

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MBeat USB M7HUB 7 port hub

MBeat USB-M7HUB 7 port hub

The Raspberry Pi is often not able to supply enough power to USB peripherals through it’s own power supply and a USB hub is recommended to ensure power drops don’t cause problems in the processor.   This means you will need two plug packs. One to power the Pi and one to Power the hub.

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Arm Disarm Using a Switch

Arm/Disarm Using a Switch

Project Description In this project I will show you how to arm/disarm an alarm zone using a tactile switch connected to your Raspberry Pi. Software Edit the globals.py file by typing the following command at the command prompt: Configure the arm/disarm variables as per figure 3: Set ArmDisarm=True Set RemoteZoneDescription equal to the description that

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Boot the Raspberry Pi from USB

Boot the Raspberry Pi from USB

Hello world, time for me to gift some raspberry pi to the people. So here’s my story, I recently graduated high school and I’ve been working with the school’s IT guy for my senior year. When I graduated, he decided to get me the latest Raspberry Pi as a graduation present (at the time of

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Build a network attached storage NAS with your Raspberry Pi and an external USB hard drive.

Build a network-attached storage (NAS) with your Raspberry Pi and an external USB hard drive.

As with all DIY projects, one of the main hassles is the enclosure to put all of the hardware in. I wanted a quick solution – didn’t have the time to make something fancy. After a while I remembered that I’ve saved my Amazon Kindle Keyboard cardboard package. The quality of the cardboard is excellent

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