I’ve decided to start to use the GIT Source Code Management system… So hoe better to learn about it than to jump in at the deep end and actually use it for a project… So to that end, I’ve moved … Continue reading
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One of the issues on the Raspberry Pi is that I’m now seeing a lot of people coming to it from a traditional microcontroller background and trying to use the same ides on the Pi as they use on the … Continue reading
I recenty ran a 2-day course for someone who was keen to learn more about Linux, C and the Raspberry Pi. Teaching isn’t new to me, I’ve run courses on my telephone systems, various aspects of Internet operations for people … Continue reading
Hot on the heels of the PiFace, to add to my collection of Raspberry Pi interface boards comes the Mini PiIO Protoboard from DTRONIXS. Photos Top photo is the base board sitting on a Raspberry Pi, the 2nd one is … Continue reading
PiFace is a peripheral IO device for the Raspberry Pi. It was announced at the recent Cambridge Raspberry Jam event so I bought one for the princely sum of £30. It’s designed to fit on-top of the Pi and has … Continue reading
I’ll put up another article or 2 if I have time about the Cambridge Raspberry Jam event held on the 14th of July 2012… However… One of the things that struck me was a comment from Eben that he had … Continue reading
Chatting as you do about “stuff” on the Raspberry Pi, someone on the #raspberrypi IRC channel mentioned LEDs and driving them. Subsequently someone else on the raspberrypi.org forums was asking about then too… And so another little project was born… … Continue reading
Another day and another release of wiringPi. This time with an LCD library added to it, as demontrated by this video: All the details over on the wiringPi pages here. … Continue reading
So after a conversation on IRC where the general gist was that apache was bloated and slow vs. lighttpd, I thought I’d try a little experiment today – see how long it might take to compile up Apache, PHP and … Continue reading
Thanks to Keith Wright for diligently testing it and pointing out bugs for me – fixed some issues in the gpio command, and while I was at it, I added in 2 new functions to it to allow for easy … Continue reading