This is a basic guide aimed at beginners who have just received a Raspberry Pi / Pi-face and want to know how to set it up, I felt the need to write this up after receiving a PiFace and not be able to find any decent documentation on how to set it up. I hope […]
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The eventual result of this instructable is, a portable (self powered) raspberry pi system to run field experiments. Part 1 Small inexpensive portable system that includes, Computer (RPI), Monitor with Audio speakers (Secondary screen from refurbished Auto DVD player $29 including the DVD player to be repurposed), wireless keyboard with touch-pad (FAVI or alike micro keyboard).All
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My first published instructable. I wanted to have a cover for my RPi, but didn’t want to spend a lot to get one. I remember seeing one online and thought I could do something like this: http://www.howtogeek.com/121814/turning-a-keyboard-into-a-computer-with-raspberry-pi/ on the cheap. Sure, mine didn’t turn out as professionally looking as the one in Germany, but it’s practical
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Yes,we learned that we can take mobile phone camera modules from almost all mobile phones to inteface them with our advanced hobby electronics projects just as with any other standard add-on modules. Since this calls for an appropriate microcontroller, it is better to use Arduino or Raspberry Pi microcontroller as a utile platform. Raspberry Pi
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These instructions will provide you with a list of requirements and steps for configuring your own local Wi-Fi media server using the Raspberry Pi. Once complete, you will be able to plug a USB drive into your Raspberry Pi and provide the drive’s content across a local wireless area. Anyone within the vicinity will be
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The versatile system-on-a-chip Raspberry Pi board seems to have something for everyone: plenty of ports for display, sound, and USB peripherals; a pin header for relaying inputs and outputs from the physical world; and space for a dedicated camera module, which makes it great platform for all sorts of video experiments. Still, there’s one thing
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Hot on the heels of the PiFace, to add to my collection of Raspberry Pi interface boards comes the Mini PiIO Protoboard from DTRONIXS. Top photo is the base board sitting on a Raspberry Pi, the 2nd one is the board made up with a minature version of my Ladder game. First impression It’s tiny!
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It’s pretty easy to break the SD card slot on a Raspberry Pi (I broke mine by dropping it on the SD card). If you break yours, there’s no need to cry over spilled Pi. Replace the disappointing SD card slot with a new one. Step 1: What You’ll Need Soldering Iron Flux Pen Solder
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Rev B of the raspberry Pi ships with a 26 pin GPIO port and my first dilemma after bringing up my Pi was, how was I going to break out the PI’s GPIO pins so that I could easily access them for design work? I searched on-line and found several solutions but all of them
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Raspberry Pi Serial GPIO Configuration 0. if you have not seen my article on how to remote access your Raspberry Pi, take a look here: http://blog.oscarliang.net/setup-raspberry-pi-for-remote-access/ 1. In order to use the Raspberry Pi’s serial port, we need to disable getty (the program that displays login screen) by find this line in file /etc/inittab T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L
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