The Scroll pHAT provides a matrix of 55 white LED pixels that is ideal for writing messages, showing graphs, and drawing pictures. Use it to output your IP address, show CPU usage, or just play some basic games. The library actually has a wide range …

The RasPiO Analog Zero is an add on ‘hat’  that can be used with any 40 pin Raspberry Pi. This board adds analog input capability to your Raspberry Pi. About the hat The main part of the RasPiO Analog Zero is an MCP3008 8 analog to digital converter. …

In this article we will take a look at the EnviroPhat, a very useful hat for your Raspberry Pi’s which contains many useful sensors. Here is a picture of the hat The envirophat by Pimoroni is a hat which can be used with the Raspberry Pi …

The Pi zero is a nice little low cost version which is perfect for maker type products, one of the snags is that there is no network capabilities but this is not a major issue as there are easy, low cost ways of adding these …

The Sense HAT is a sensor board which has a 8×8 RGB LED matrix, a joystick and also includes a gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer and temperature, barometric pressure and humidity sensors. The Raspberry Pi Sense HAT is attached on top of the Raspberry Pi via the …

In this example we create a GUI to set the value for our PWM example – Controlling the Brightness of an LED   Schematics Parts Name Links Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Development Board Aliexpress link Amazon. com link Ebay search Starter kit (leds , resistors) …

In this example we will create a gui to switch on and off the LED that we used in the PWM example – Controlling the Brightness of an LED Here is a reminder of the schematics Code Save the following as gpiogui.py [codesyntax lang=”python”] from Tkinter …

In this example we will show you how to control the brightness of an LED connected . The RPi.GPIO library has a PWM feature that allows you to control the power to an LED and its brightness, we will use this in this example   Schematic …

Changing the name of your Pi is a pretty straightforward task. There are just two files that need to be changed to do this. First, edit the file /etc/hostname. You can do this by opening a Terminal window and typing the following command: [codesyntax lang=”bash”] …

In a previous post we showed an example of the MPU6050 sensor and a Raspberry Pi using wiringPi and C++. This time its a python code example Raspberry Pi and MPU-6050 C example Code [codesyntax lang=”python”] import smbus import math import time # Power management …