Recently, I’ve been dabbling with electronics to fill the void of spare time I’ve found myself with while I’m between jobs. I’m currently working on a half-baked idea to create some sort of digital assistant who will take instructions in some form, and then read stuff back to me in a Siri-esque manner. Nothing sounds […]
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This Instructable will walk through using a Raspberry Pi and a monitor or television to create a digital sign or display. A digital display like this can be used at home, at a company, or at any organization to display upcoming events, notices, calendars, photos, news, etc. What’s different about this is that we won’t
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LCD Module Hardware The pinout of the module is : Ground VCC (Usually +5V) Contrast adjustment (VO) Register Select (RS). RS=0: Command, RS=1: Data Read/Write (R/W). R/W=0: Write, R/W=1: Read Enable Bit 0 (Not required in 4-bit operation) Bit 1 (Not required in 4-bit operation) Bit 2 (Not required in 4-bit operation) Bit 3 (Not
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The other day I finally received my Raspberry Pi Model B in the mail!!! It only took 6 months…. but at least it arrived. Regardless, I now have it in hand an am happily projecting away. Of course I could spend 30-50$ odd dollars online and buy a snazzy clear case or I could put
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This is a very simple instructable that will show you how to put together a little portable Raspberry Pi. Watch the video for visual instructions:Video Step 1: Parts and Tools A Raspberry Pi This could be any raspberry pi, but I chose the Raspberry Pi 2. If you use the Raspberry Pi 2, B+, or
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Introduction After starting my circuit testing with some LEDs and switches I moved up to a small 16×2 LCD screen (HD44780 controller) with the Raspberry Pi. The configuration of the LCD pins and base code for output to the 16×2 LCD screen is taken from the excellent Raspberry Pi Spy website. I’ve made a few modifications:
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Hello, this is a step-by-step instruction on how to make a wooden raspberry pi handheld. Step 1: Things you need First you need a raspberry pi, no matter if you are using a model A or B. I used a raspberry pi model B because it has got more RAM. Then you need a screen
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The Raspberry Pi. Its a $35 computer the size of a credit card. Being very small, its great for its portability. However, this is usually the problem as it is hard to make it portable. Over the past year and a half, I have worked with my friend (KM4BLG) to create a portable raspberry pi.
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Now that you have your nifty new Raspberry Pi, you’ll need a display for it. Teensy analog monitors are pretty cheap, but what you really want is a decent HDMI display. Unfortunately, they’re expensive, running from $150 on up into the thousands for the huge ones. But, for about $75 (or even as low as
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There are quite a few displays out there that can be used with the RPi. Apart from those having an HDMI adapter or being connected via the composite output most bare bones displays have a parallel or serial data interface. Both of these last two types have to be connected via the SPI interface on
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