Part 1: The Hardware & Driver Some time back, I joked that the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO port really stood for Game Port IO… So to make that joke come true, I present a way of interfacing the NES Joysticks to … Continue reading
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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
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
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
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
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
To use the GPIO pins on the Raspberry Pi, I have written my own access library and modeled it on the Arduino Wiring system. It started life as the means to allow my BASIC to access the GPIO pins, but … Continue reading