Racing with Raspbian
While we’re waiting for the first interface boards to arrive we’ve been checking out our libraries against the new Raspbian distro. The latest Raspbian kernel supports I2C and SPI, and today we got all...
View ArticleWe love #RaspberryJam
Last night we went along to the Raspberry Jam session hosted at Mozilla's super offices in Central London to meet, mingle and demonstrate our beta boards. There were a couple of excellent...
View ArticleAutomatic board detection and the Python library
Most of our users started out with revision 1 of the Raspberry Pi, but a growing number have revision 2 boards, and some have both. A few things changed in revision 2, including GPIO pin numbering and...
View ArticleFun with @norwichrpi
I've just come home after a great session in Norwich. One of the most enjoyable things about this sort of meeting is that you get a wonderful range of perspectives on the Pi. Here's one. Nev Young...
View ArticleAnalogue board demo
Here's an I2C analogue board measuring light levels, with a simple Python program showing the value on a LED bar display. The video quality is not great - I'll shoot a better version tomorrow. Here's...
View ArticlePi and Arduino
One of the themes that came out of yesterday's excellent Raspberry Jam at Milton Keynes was the very positive overlap between the Arduino and Raspberry Pi communities. A lot of us Pi enthusiasts also...
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I2C Pinouts
We've been asked to document the pin allocations that we use for the I2C connectors on our boards. Here they are: The Int line is used to signal an interrupt from those boards that can generate one,...
View ArticleAnalogue board assembly guide
A few people are currently using the beta 0.5+ plus version of our analogue board. The board is almost unchanged since version 0.2, so you can assemble it using the old guide. The position of the...
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The Babelboard is coming
Do you pine for the plug-in peripherals on other platforms like the Grove System from seeed studio or the Gadgeteer? Are you finding it hard to choose between the great interface boards from companies...
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Raspberry Pi and Arduino linked via I2C
The Raspberry Pi and the Arduino are both amazing, and each has its particular strengths. There are lots of projects that use one or the other, but there's growing interest in solutions that combine...
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