So as well as technology, I love baking – to the extent that I bake stuff to sell with all the shenanigans that goes with that. Local authority inspections, food hygiene certificates, insurance, blah…. Some bread I made … (Devon … Continue reading
Category Archives: wiringPi
A quad-core Raspberry Pi? Sure. Why not. Put 4 x ARMv7 Cortex-A4 cores on the chip and lets give it 1GB of RAM while we’re at it. And here it is. The Pi v2. Unlike all previous Raspberry Pi’s the … Continue reading
I’ve had two people recently email me regarding their Raspberry Pi sensor monitoring projects stop after 49 days… The reason is simple, the solution slightly more complex, so what’s going on? The wiringPi GPIO library has a function: millis() which … Continue reading
One of the features of the new Raspberry Pi B+ is improved power handling – particularly round the USB interfaces. There is a device connected to the power to the USB ports that is quite clever – it controls the … Continue reading
Much excitement here at Drogon towers as I have a new Raspberry Pi – the model B+ So what’s a B+ and how does it differ from the B? Here is a quick list of the main differences: USB: 4 … Continue reading
So today (30th April, 2014) marks the 50th anniversary of the BASIC programming language! Hurrah! The very first BASIC program: 10 LET X = (7 + 8) / 3 20 PRINT X 30 END To help celebrate this, I’ve made … Continue reading
Some time back the boffins at Pimoroni sent me a prototype of the new Pibrella board with a view to making the little piezo speaker on it make some noise… It wasn’t that loud, so I made a few suggestions … Continue reading
So the 2nd (annual?) Jamboree was held in Manchester thanks to Alan O’Donohoe and whole host of others who helped him arrange it and it went fantastically well! This year it was spread over 2 days with some talks, etc … Continue reading
I’ve added in support for the new PiGlow board from Pimoroni into the wiringPi devLib. Full details here but a quick video demonstration below: … Continue reading
Did you know that the 8 inputs on the PiFace can be used as outputs too? Well they can, and this is something that I understand the boffins in Manchester who designed it had in-mind too… So in-between barbecues this … Continue reading