We have all been there. You get a new development board, you go online to check how you communicate with it and then you realize you need a new connector that costs some extra cash. And here goes on the cycle of electronic waste, because it generally only works with boards from that company, hence you …
TIGARD IS HERE TO BUST OPEN ANY EMBEDDED PHYSICAL INTERFACE YOU CAN FIND Read More »
Introduction to Physical Computing 1 Introduction With over ten million units sold, the Raspberry Pi single board computer has become one of the most popular ways to learn computer science. Raspberry Pi s are ultra-low-cost, fully functional tiny computers. While there are many models of the Raspberry Pi , their purpose remains the same: to …
Learning Physical Computing with Raspberry Pi for the Absolute Beginner Read More »
Difficulty: beginner This tutorial will help you to receive input to your Pi from physical switches and buttons and to debounce if necessary. It will show you how to automatically run a program when a button is pressed (a GO button for a robot, for instance), or use it as part of your program. BACKGROUND: …
This is a fun little demo I threw together in an evening. I’m running Raspbian “wheezy”. Wire up a switch (or switches) to your GPIO port. I have switches connected to GPIO pins 22, 23, and 24. Install RPIO. sudo apt-get install python-setuptools sudo easy_install -U RPIO Install wakeonlan. sudo apt-get install wakeonlan Check that …
Physical WakeOnLan button with Raspberry Pi and Python Read More »
With Docker on the Raspberry Pi we are able to connect cloud tools with IoT devices. So how can we interact with the real world from inside a Docker container? Let’s see and get physical… To keep the tutorial simple we will use the binary from the wiringPi project within a Docker container. This command …
Let’s get physical with Docker on the Raspberry Pi Read More »
