RMOUG’s Quarterly education workshop was a great event today and I appreciate everyone who came out and those who spent time with their family and their user community doing fun geeky stuff. Raspberry Pi Family Coding Morning There were a few things I promised folks, including access to my family coding slides so anyone can do this at home. Even though I’ve included the GPIO with breadboard configuration and code in the slides, please, PLEASE consider getting the Pibrella board and code with it instead. The chance of wiring the board wrong is high for those just starting out and…
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I’ve had a lot of people email and message me asking me what I’m doing with the Raspberry Pi and I wanted to share before the actual RMOUG Quarterly Education Workshop, (QEW) this Friday at Elitches. So a little history- When I was a kid, I was a real handful. My mother used to come into my room and I’d have created “webs” out of yarn strung from every piece of furniture and twisted into patterns. I used to take apart radios and use the parts to create new toys, figuring out how the electronics worked. Dolls suddenly became cyborgs…
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I recently upgraded from the first edition Raspberry Pi to the new and improved Raspberry Pi 2 in a bundle Cana kit. The Raspberry Pi 2 has a 900MHZ quad-core Arm Cortex A7, (ARMv7 processor instruction set) with 1Gb of memory, GPU is a 250MHZ Broadcom VideoCore IV, 1080p 30 h.264/MPEG-4 AVC high profile decoder and encoder on the graphics and includes four USB ports, a micro SD, HDMI, micro USB power supply and a 15-pin MIPI camera interface. I like that the kid included a number of accessories, including an 8GB Micro USB card, the USB Wifi, 3.5 mm…