Archive for the 'Electronics' Category
Thursday, November 26th, 2020
My new book is now available. Learn Electronics with Raspberry Pi (2nd Edition). This is an update on my first book which is now over 4 years old. My first book sold well and was even translated into Chinese. This new edition is a significant rewrite, bringing it up-to-date, but also improving the educational style, […]
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Thursday, October 29th, 2020
My Raspberry Pi Halloween project for this year is based around the Raspberry Pi RGB matrix display project. I have put the RGB Matrix outside of my house and wanted to display a Halloween animation on the display. I also wanted to include a PIR sensor which changed the display when someone approached the display. […]
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Monday, October 12th, 2020
In this video I look at some of the features of the Arduino and the Raspberry Pi to see which is the best fit for your project. Whilst it starts with the answer “it depends”, it gives scenarios where each is better and for those where either is a good fit I’ll give my own […]
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Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019
I have created some DIY home automation in the past. This was based around using remote control of mains electrical sockets (Home automation – controlling Energenie power sockets using a Raspberry Pi) but I also used a home automation light on one of my home lights. Since then the number of commercial home automation devices […]
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Monday, December 17th, 2018
New Christmas House Project web page Since this post was written I’ve now created a new version of the Christmas House circuit based around a printed circuit board. For full details then see: Raspberry Pi Christmas House Electronics Project. Original post from 2018 This year I’ve been creating a 3D model of a building for […]
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Sunday, November 25th, 2018
There are many different misconceptions about creating model railways and the people that are involved. I’d therefore like to start by dispelling some of these myths and explaining what I think that model railways is about. The 3 Golden Rules of Model Railways Many people have come up with different rules for model railways, here’s […]
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Tuesday, August 28th, 2018
I’ve recently been having fun with some NeoPixels on the Raspberry Pi. NeoPixel is the name that Adafruit uses to refer to “Smart RGB LEDs with WS2811 / WS2812 integrated controllers”. I’m sure you’ll agree that NeoPixel has a better ring to it and as that’s the name of the Python library that I’m using. […]
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2018
Today is the weekend of the Raspberry Pi 6th Birthday. In the past the birthday has been celebrated with a large Raspberry Jam in Cambridge (organized by Mike Horne and Tim Richardson). I have been to the earlier birthday celebrations, supporting workshops run by others, giving presentations and running workshops. For 2018 the birthday celebrations […]
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Thursday, November 30th, 2017
I backed the MeArm Pi kickstarter project earlier this year, and just received the finished product. It’s a, laser cut, plastic robot arm which has a built-in Raspberry Pi. It is created by Mime Industries who have previously created a similar robot arm without the build-in controller / Raspberry Pi. It can be controlled using […]
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Tuesday, August 22nd, 2017
My book “Learn Electronics with Raspberry Pi” is included in the Lego Mindstorms and Robotics book bundle on Humble Bundle. Through this you can get over $500 worth of ebooks for a fraction of their normal price, with a portion of the money going towards the charity AbleGamers Foundation. As with all the Humble Bundles […]
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