I found the following dimensions online so I thought I’d share it… We recommend the following books if you are interested in the Raspberry Pi: Getting Started with Raspberry Pi (Make: Projects) by Matt Richardson and Shawn Wallace Raspberry Pi For Dummies By Sean McManus and Mike Cook Programming the Raspberry Pi: Getting Started with … Read More →
Background on the two setup’s The Raspberry Pi has a Linux-based Operating System. Linux is what the business community uses to run production servers. It can do all kinds of things like: Host Websites, databases , web-services, connectivity and lots more. It is also very configurable and almost anything can be automated. Arduino is a real-time micro-controller that can … Read More →
The Raspberry Pi is a well-connected device and at some point you will find that you want to connect to it remotely. This can be done in the following ways: Using windows Remote Desktop. This is a graphical based connection. Secure Shell (SSH) via client like Putty. This is terminal based connection. Lets have a look at … Read More →
The Raspberry Pi is a very versatile mini-computer. It has a bunch of General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) pins. The image below shows the pin layout and there uses. Raspberry Pi UART : pin 14 and 15 Raspberry Pi SPI : Pin 7 , 8 ,9 ,10 and 11 Raspberry Pi I2C : Pin 0 and 1 … Read More →
Putty is a very useful application that can be used to connect to serial ports and Secure Shell(SSH) to Raspberry Pi’s. Putty is mostly used on Windows to connect to remote devices but it can also run on a Raspberry Pi. Steps to installing Putty on a Raspberry Pi: Open a terminal/shell window on your … Read More →
BASH scripts are small files containing lines of commands. These little scripts are very useful. The following are a few examples … BASH scripts can contain any command you can run from a shell. This makes it very,very powerful. You can use it to set up/configuring your Raspberry Pi (…or any Linux-based system for that … Read More →
Arduino Boards and Raspberry Pi’s are a match made in heaven. The Arduino adds a bunch of sensory devices/libraries/well supported community and the Raspberry Pi add’s high end power processing to process/transform and distribute the data. Combined the possibilities are endless… 🙂 So lets start at the beginning. In this session I will cover the basics of installing the Arduino IDE on the Raspberry … Read More →
