One of the drawbacks to the Raspberry Pi is that there’s no built-in analog-to-digital converter, meaning that it can’t read analog sensors “out of the box.” Luckily, our friends at...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Saturday July 28th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Raspberry Pi | 1 Comment
Now that I have an HDMI monitor on my workbench, I've started to tinker a lot more the Raspberry Pi. I'm very interested in how programming on-screen interfaces can be...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Wednesday July 25th, 2012 4:00 AM
Categories: Raspberry Pi | 26 Comments
Raspberry Pi owners will likely be delighted to hear that they just got a big update to the default Linux installation for their boards. This new distribution of Linux, called...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Tuesday July 17th, 2012 9:30 PM
Categories: Raspberry Pi | 3 Comments
Yes, those are my veins. This series of images was generated by the Christie DLP VeinViewer [PDF]. This device projects infrared light onto your hand. A camera detects areas with blood...
Posted by Kipp Bradford | Wednesday June 27th, 2012 4:00 PM
Categories: Computers & Mobile, Electronics | 9 Comments
If you already have your hands on a Raspberry Pi and are eager to make some LEDs blink and read the status of pushbutton switches, I want to share with...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Saturday June 16th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, Raspberry Pi | 1 Comment
Biz, a 12 year-old member of the Boreatton Scout Troop’s Robo Team, created this excellent Raspberry Pi enclosure out of Legos and she dutifully documented the entire build process.
Posted by Matt Richardson | Monday June 11th, 2012 4:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, Raspberry Pi | 8 Comments
If you're waiting for delivery on a Raspberry Pi and are eager to learn what it'll take to program it, Element-14, one of the distributors of the highly anticipated credit...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Wednesday April 4th, 2012 4:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, Raspberry Pi | 8 Comments
Nuno Alves, an assistant professor of computer engineering at Western New England University, has been experimenting with the BeagleBone and posted an excellent how-to on getting the ubiquitous Hitachi HD44780...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Sunday March 25th, 2012 6:00 AM
Categories: Electronics | 2 Comments
If you're excited about getting into embedded Linux platforms for electronics projects, Matt shows you how to get started on the BeagleBone. By the end of this how-to video, you'll...
Posted by Matt Richardson | Wednesday March 14th, 2012 4:00 PM
Categories: Electronics, General | 51 Comments
The new DVI-D Cape for the BeagleBoard BeagleBone is now available in the Maker Shed! It will allow your BeagleBone to output directly to a monitor allowing you to use...
Posted by Michael Castor | Tuesday March 6th, 2012 8:00 AM
Categories: Electronics, General | 1 Comment
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