Last month I wrote about the Raspberry Ladder Board and it appeared in the MagPi magazine too! This month I’ll finish it off with a full board description and some more software. (And if you don’t have one yet, then … Continue reading
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Last weekend (Saturday the 2nd to be precise!) I visited The National Museum of Computing (aka TNMoC) which is based in the grounds of Bletchley Park. This was my 2nd visit and I was especially interested in seeing the newly … Continue reading
On the evening of Saturday the 24th of November, 2012 the lower part of Buckfastleigh flooded. Both the Mardle river and Dean burns were full to overflowing – with some rather serious consequences. I originally took a few dozen photos … Continue reading
At long last (well only 10 months or so!) I’ve released my BASIC to the world! RTB is a modern BASIC in that you don’t need line numbers and it supports nice looping constructs like while/until with named functions and … Continue reading
John Jay based in Georgia, USA is a retired engineer who’s “gotten the PI bug” and designed some new IO boards for the Raspberry Pi. He’s currently selling them via eBay and I have some here to play with! (I … Continue reading
The Raspberry Ladder is a small kit comprising PCB with LEDs, resistors and switches intended to be used to experiment with the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO functions and hopefully to get people interested in soldering up their own projects. Soldering is … Continue reading
If you’re a reader of the MagPi magazine then you may have seen my Halloween Pi project in the October issue… If not, then have a quick wander over to their site: http://www.themagpi.com/ and have a look! Octobers magazine featured … Continue reading
Since I first wrote about the PiFace back in July there has been a new development! Dr. Andrew Robinson who’s the leader behind the project at Manchester university have had some valuable feedback from their initial prototype release and re-designed … Continue reading
So the big news is that there is going to be (or already is!) a 2nd revision of the Raspberry Pi PCB, and even bigger is that it’s going to be manufactured (well, assembled) in the UK. That’s great, but … Continue reading
Frustrated by the fact there there is only one easily accessible PWM output on your Raspberry Pi? Then this article is for you, because now you can use ANY GPIO pin as a PWM output thanks to the latest addition … Continue reading