{"id":16402,"date":"2017-02-14T20:00:42","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T19:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16402"},"modified":"2017-02-14T15:46:23","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T14:46:23","slug":"get-started-with-node-red-with-this-worksheet-from-the-raspberry-pi-foundation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16402","title":{"rendered":"Get started with Node-RED with this worksheet from the Raspberry Pi Foundation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16403\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/buttonlightsLED.gif?resize=560%2C363&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"363\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve just spotted this new resource on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/resources\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi website&#8217;s resources section<\/a>. It shows you how to get started with controlling the Raspberry Pi&#8217;s GPIO pins using visual programming language <a href=\"https:\/\/nodered.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Node-RED<\/a>. It&#8217;s a nice tutorial and helps you get your head round some of the\u00a0intricacies of the language and how to configure it to work with the GPIO. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/learning\/getting-started-with-node-red\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read it here<\/a>. <em>Shameless plug:\u00a0<\/em>If you&#8217;re after the components to do the tutorial, you can do worse than <a href=\"https:\/\/thepihut.com\/collections\/camjam-edukit\/products\/camjam-edukit\" target=\"_blank\">getting the \u00a35 CamJam EduKit from The Pi Hut<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just spotted this new resource on the Raspberry Pi website&#8217;s resources section. 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