A site accompanying the book "Raspberry Pi DIY Mechatronics Projects Hotshot"
We came across a tool called Etcher from Resin.io. It is a tool meant to flash an image onto an SD card. This is especially useful to quickly setup your new Raspberry Pi. It is a one step process where you can select the image and flash the SD card for your project. We put together a video that shows how to flash an image for your Raspberry Pi: Tool’s Target Audience: Beginner to Expert Ease of Use: 5/5
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As you may be aware, the Raspberry Pi foundation announced the new variant of the Raspberry Pi — The Raspberry Pi Zero. They also shared the news that the Raspberry Pi Zero is available for sale at Microcenter. Early reports of #PiZero spotted at @microcenter! You can reserve online and pickup in-store. https://t.co/QLz7LqaLD7 — Raspberry Pi (@Raspberry_Pi) November 27, 2015 I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and the only store in my state is in SoCal – Orange
Read moreThe Raspberry Pi foundation announced a new variant of the Raspberry Pi this morning (2 a.m. ET). It is called the Raspberry Pi Zero. What is the Raspberry Pi Zero? Raspberry Pi Zero is a variant of the Raspberry Pi model A, A+ but in a smaller form factor. It comes with: 512 MB RAM BCM 2835 processor clocked at 1 GHz. 40 GPIO pins (similar to other variants) mini HDMI port USB OTG (On-The-Go) port (this could be used
Read moreIs it possible to plan a trip to the Sierra Nevada using a Raspberry Pi? The answer is yes. Before you pose the question: “why?”, you must take a look at this picture: Motivation for this project The Sierra Nevada is one of the most beautiful places on this planet that I have ever visited in my life. My brother and I were traveling in the Eastern Sierra area (Mammoth Lakes – Mono Lake – Bishop area) during this Memorial
Read moreI am writing this post from a motel in the Mammoth Lakes area, California. Have you ever been in a situation where you had to verify something on a Raspberry Pi for a presentation/interview sitting in a motel room? As soon as I walked into my motel room today, I noticed these (shown in the picture below) TV input ports on the wall. It occurred to me that it is possible to power a Raspberry Pi using the USB port
Read moreAre you considering to use a Raspberry Pi in one of your projects? Have you considered using Power over Ethernet (PoE) to power your Raspberry Pi? What is Power over Ethernet? Power over Ethernet is a standardized technology that enables powering devices that consume very low power to be powered by an Ethernet cable(Wikipedia). The electrical cable is transmitted via a cable pair that is not used for Ethernet communications. How does it work? A PoE enabled device is connected
Read moreThis post is a tip for those who are planning to deploy a Raspberry Pi at a remote location. This tip is especially useful if the Raspberry Pi is located at a remote location and it is not possible to connect a monitor to the HDMI output of the Raspberry Pi (unless the Raspberry Pi is removed from its location) e.g. Outdoor deployment, next to a fish tank, christmas tree etc. I was recently in a similar situation and I
Read moreIf you haven’t of the weird reset problem with the Raspberry Pi 2, this article is a great place to start. Dave L. Jones of the EEV blog explains photoelectric effect observed in semiconductors that aids in understanding the reset cause by a camera flash in the Raspberry Pi 2.
Read moreThe Raspberry Pi 2 is the second generation Raspberry Pi that was released by the Raspberry Pi foundation on the first week of February 2015. We could not cover the features of the Raspberry Pi 2 in the book. We decided to make any tips and tricks available on this website. In order to get started with the Raspberry Pi 2, the following items are required: Raspberry Pi 2 (Available from Distributors like Newark Element 14). MicroSD card with SD
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