Low Voltage Labs presented on working with the GPIO at LinuxFest Northwest a few days ago. The session covered:
- An overview of the GPIO
- Basic electronics needed to connect to it
- Flashing an LED
- Reading an input
- Connecting an LCD module to I2C
Overkill, yet cool, with a water-cooled @Raspberry_Pi
Bit-tech modder James Couzens has taken the Pi’s non-existent heat problem to heart with his water-cooling project. You can read more about the project at Bit Tech and full details are available on their forums.
Virtualization on the #RaspberryPi with vPi (coming soon)
From xtravirt.com:
“If you are a VMware evangelist and love the Raspberry Pi, what do you do? You create vPi of course! That was Xtravirt’s co-founder Alex Mittell‘s thought when he decided to put together the vPi project. vPi is a modified version of the Raspbian distribution (which is based on Debian). It aims to provide a “plug and play” platform for administrators, consultants, or anyone else really, to use to connect up to any VMware vSphere virtual infrastructure and quickly and easily perform administration tasks, gather information, or run scripts against it. You could even think of it as a beefed up mobile vMA appliance, with a huge scope for customisation.”
If you’re interested in virtualization, head on over to their blog post.
Raspberry Jam for the #RaspberryPi in Harlow, Essex – 25th May #rjam
The first Harlow Raspberry Jam is being held on the 25th May at The Time Machine from 12.30-5.30pm. There are only 20 tickets left, so if you’re in the area and want to attend, I suggest you move quickly! Register here
Nwazet Key Lime Pi analog breakout board now available at Pimoroni for #RaspberryPi
I’ve been following the Nwazet guys for some time. Pimoroni have just started to stock the Key Lime Pi and also the IR Receiver kits. I’ve only just soldered my Key Lime (which has 8 analog inputs!) and will be posting a review in the next week or so (once I’ve started connecting up sensors etc).
MiniPiOut from the Coding Club – simplest GPIO breakout for the #RaspberryPi
The Coding Club have also today released information on the MiniPiOut which is a very (and I mean VERY) simple way of breaking out the GPIO pins to outside of a case that allows a cable to pass through. It requires a bit of cutting-and-clamping, but it does have such a low footprint that I wanted to highlight it on my blog. Read about it here