Sharing files over the network is incredibly handy, when I was writing code examples to publish on this site it was useful to run them on the Raspberry PI, copy them to a folder which could be accessed on my Windows 7 PC. Install and…

In this example we will add an LCD plate to our Raspberry PI, you could of course add an LCD and connect it up manually but this was an easier method which I wanted to investigate. Here i s a picture of the plate I purchased…

Getting an I2C device to work with your Raspberry PI requires a few steps, in this guide we show how to enable this. First of all you have to start up the raspian config tool, you do this as follows [codesyntax lang=”bash”] sudo raspi-config [/codesyntax]…

In this example we use the database we created in the create database example and we will simply display all rows in the database [codesyntax lang=”python”] #!/usr/bin/python import sqlite3 as lite import sys con = lite.connect(‘test.db’) with con: cur = con.cursor() cur.execute(“SELECT * FROM Jobs”)…

In this example we create a SQLite database and insert some sample data into it, we will use this database in later examples [codesyntax lang=”python”] import sqlite3 as lite import sys con = lite.connect(‘test.db’) with con: cur = con.cursor() cur.execute(“CREATE TABLE Jobs(Id INT, Name TEXT,…

Connect a push button to a GPIO pin and check for a button press Schematic Code [codesyntax lang=”java”] import com.pi4j.io.gpio.GpioController; import com.pi4j.io.gpio.GpioFactory; import com.pi4j.io.gpio.GpioPinDigitalInput; import com.pi4j.io.gpio.PinPullResistance; import com.pi4j.io.gpio.RaspiPin; import com.pi4j.io.gpio.event.GpioPinDigitalStateChangeEvent; import com.pi4j.io.gpio.event.GpioPinListenerDigital; public class pushbutton { public static void main(String args[]) throws InterruptedException { System.out.println(“Push…

Another example using the pi4j library, this time displaying various clock speeds on your system [codesyntax lang=”java”] import com.pi4j.system.NetworkInfo; import com.pi4j.system.SystemInfo; import java.io.IOException; import java.text.ParseException; public class clockinfo { public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException, IOException, ParseException { System.out.println(“—————————————————-“); System.out.println(“CLOCK INFO”); System.out.println(“—————————————————-“); System.out.println(“ARM Frequency…

This code example shows how to display some hardware information using the pi4l java library [codesyntax lang=”java”] import com.pi4j.system.NetworkInfo; import com.pi4j.system.SystemInfo; import java.io.IOException; import java.text.ParseException; public class hardwareinfo { public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException, IOException, ParseException { System.out.println(“—————————————————-“); System.out.println(“HARDWARE INFO”); System.out.println(“—————————————————-“); System.out.println(“Serial Number…

This examples uses pi4j library to display operating system information [codesyntax lang=”java”] import com.pi4j.system.NetworkInfo; import com.pi4j.system.SystemInfo; import java.io.IOException; import java.text.ParseException; public class osinfo { public static void main(String[] args) throws InterruptedException, IOException, ParseException { System.out.println(“—————————————————-“); System.out.println(“OPERATING SYSTEM INFO”); System.out.println(“—————————————————-“); System.out.println(“OS Name : ” + SystemInfo.getOsName());…

The first step is to verify if you have java installed , to do this open a command prompt and type the following java -version This should return something like the following, if not you’ve probably got an older version of Raspbian or equivalent that…