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
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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
Just uploaded a new version of wiringPi with a few bug fixes. the main one being in digitalWrite when the range check for the pin number was fine when it was wiringPi pins, but not fine for the newly introduced … 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