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Raspberry Pi GPIO Pinout

Raspberry Pi GPIO Pinout

I found these awesome Raspberry Pi pinout diagrams by Pighixxx at Flickr. When I am trying to learn something new, I make my own diagrams. I have been doing some reading about safely connecting things to the GPIO pins of the Raspberry Pi, especially regarding Voltage and Amps. It is not as simple as one

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Raspberry Pi WEMO Control Center

Raspberry Pi WEMO Control Center

This project provides a webpage and automated interface for controlling Belkin’s WEMO light switches and plug switches using the Miranda library. At the end of the project you will have a webpage that can show real time state of all WEMO switches. Clicking the lightbulbs will toggle the state of the WEMO switch. The backend

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Introducing LightingPi

Introducing LightingPi

Features: Control strings of LED pixels with a raspberry Pi Control strings of analog RGB LED strings (up to 16 channels per PWM board) Control Incandessent lighting via SSR boards (work in progress) Control servo position Control of all fixtures provided over all major lighting protocols Artnet / E1.31/ OSC …via OLA Overview: DMX based

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Python – Traffic Light

Python – Traffic Light

Introduction Hopefully now you have received your LED electronics kit and have followed our basic LED tutorials. Now you are eagly wating to get started and create some more complex programming using both inputs and outputs. The following tutorial will get you programming your first LED traffic light using a switch as an input to

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