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Alex Eames at RasPi.TV is currently running a series on the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins. It’s great to see this kind of blogging and it’s especially useful for beginners or those who need to know\u00a0<\/span>why<\/em>\u00a0<\/span>you need that pull-down resistor, for instance. So far, he’s covered the basics and has now turned his attention to both inputs <\/a>and outputs<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

RPi.GPIO basics 4 \u2013 Setting up RPi.GPIO, numbering systems and inputs \u00bb RasPi.TV<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

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Of particular usefulness, the input article covers reading a simple button press and the output article covers lighting up an LED – basic electronics projects, but ones I’ll be returning to time and time again as I don’t seem to be able to remember how to do these simple things from one day to the next!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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