{"id":10459,"date":"2014-07-20T19:52:29","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T19:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=10459"},"modified":"2014-07-20T19:52:29","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T19:52:29","slug":"awesome-community-solves-power-problem-on-the-raspberrypi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10459","title":{"rendered":"Awesome community solves power problem on the #RaspberryPi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Bs5F8BoIUAAbSFj.jpg?resize=560%2C338&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"338\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alex Eames at RasPi.tv found a potential problem with the B+ the other day. It would start after a halt when his hand approached two of the GPIO pins. Thanks to the Raspberry Pi community, and some of the brains at the Foundation, the problem has now been solved. It&#8217;s worth reading less because of the technical problem itself but more to hear how the community rallied around and helped each other solve that problem. <a href=\"http:\/\/raspi.tv\/2014\/just-how-awesome-is-the-raspberry-pi-community-fixing-the-b-wont-shutdown-issue\" target=\"_blank\">Read all about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Eames at RasPi.tv found a potential problem with the B+ the other day. It would start after a halt when his hand approached two of the GPIO pins. Thanks to the Raspberry Pi community, and some of the brains&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10459\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-techiness","category-research"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Awesome community solves power problem on the #RaspberryPi - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10459\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Awesome community solves power problem on the #RaspberryPi - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alex Eames at RasPi.tv found a potential problem with the B+ the other day. 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