As part of my Big Trak refurbishment (not going as well as I wanted it to), I decided to use the Adafruit Prototyping Pi Plate to mount the additional electronics on. If you’re not familiar with it, then this is … Continue reading
Category Archives: General Update
Just a quick post and a few photos from last nights RaspberryJam in Bristol – held in the most excellent Bristol and Bath Science Park. Alan (@teknoteacher) the driving force behind the RaspberryJams, was on-form as usual, keeping everything flowing … Continue reading
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
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
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
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
My little ladder game seems to have generated some interest – or was it my comment about the GPIO port standing for Game Port IO? Who knows, it’s fun anyhow… But it’s got me thinking – what else can I … Continue reading
Working on some fun projects and examples with the Raspberry Pi’s on-board GPIO ports and the SK Pang Starter kit. All the fun is over here… … Continue reading
Just a note to say that I’ve updated my WiringPi libraries. It now should work fine with C++ programs and there is an added function (and flag to the gpio program) to switch fron the WiringPi Arudino-like pin numbering to … Continue reading