From the creators of the low cost single board computer, comes a new low cost microcontroller! The Raspberry Pi Pico is a new microcontroller class product just released by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. The board is based on Raspberry Pi’s own in-house designed microcontroller and features all of the...
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We all knew it was coming at some point, but despite 2020’s best efforts, the Raspberry Pi 4 8GB is now available for pre-order. Its funny to think, just a year ago, the most powerful Pi on the market had 8 times less memory. Aside from the fancy new...
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Part three of our Raspberry Pi Irrigation tutorial is now up! In this tutorial we are going to figure out how to write a program that will run our sprinklers, monitor a few of our sensors, and email us once it has finished running. We will also figure out...
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Part two of our Raspberry Pi Irrigation tutorial is now up! In this tutorial we will boot up the Raspberry Pi, do some initial configuration of the Raspbian operating system, and install Python libraries for a few of the sensors. Next, we will write some basic Python code to...
Read moreHappy Pi Day! Well – no new Raspberry Pi 4 from the Pi Foundation this year, but we kind of expected that based on interviews over the past month. However, we do have a Raspberry Pi announcement of our own! Just in time for Pi Day (and Spring) we...
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The fourth and final part of our Raspberry Pi Weather Station Tutorial is now up! In this section of the tutorial we address how to start the weather station code as soon as the Raspberry Pi boots up, how to keep the electronics safe from the elements outside, and...
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