{"id":17877,"date":"2017-12-04T17:30:05","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17877"},"modified":"2017-12-04T17:32:37","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T16:32:37","slug":"physical-computing-from-a-pc-or-mac-using-a-raspberry-pi-zero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=17877","title":{"rendered":"Physical computing from a PC or Mac using a Raspberry Pi Zero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_20171127_164539-500x375.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17878\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_20171127_164539-500x375.jpg?resize=500%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_20171127_164539-500x375.jpg?resize=500%2C375&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_20171127_164539-500x375.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_20171127_164539-500x375.jpg?resize=260%2C195&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/IMG_20171127_164539-500x375.jpg?resize=160%2C120&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gordon Hollingworth, over at Raspberry Pi, has just blogged an exciting new development that means you can now use a Raspberry Pi Zero&#8217;s GPIO pins from your PC or Mac. You&#8217;ll need to install <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/stretch-pcs-macs-raspbian-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Raspbian x86 Stretch<\/a>\u00a0on the non-Zero machine first. Now it\u00a0<em>looks<\/em> like you don&#8217;t need an SD card in the Zero (which is cool), but the post on RPF doesn&#8217;t say that explicitly, but it\u00a0<em>does<\/em> mention something about network boot, so try it without!<\/p>\n<p>Install a new bit of software on the x86 machine to detect the Zero&#8230;<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install usbbootgui<\/pre>\n<p>Then, plug in your Zero using a USB cable (into the Zero&#8217;s USB data port rather than the power port) and the new GUI should pop up to tell you you&#8217;ve done it. You can then communicate with that Pi Zero using Scratch 2 GPIO or Python.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/gpio-expander\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more and follow the instructions here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Hollingworth, over at Raspberry Pi, has just blogged an exciting new development that means you can now use a Raspberry Pi Zero&#8217;s GPIO pins from your PC or Mac. 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