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Simple Arduino Motor Control
One thing you might want to do with an Arduino or even a Raspberry Pi is control a motor. Of course, the GPIO pins on this board are really just designed to send and receive informational signals, not drive the … Continue reading
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Pull-up and Pull-down Resistors
Working a lot with Raspberry Pi and Arduino stuff lately. The concept of pull-up and pull-down resistors came up quickly and confused me a little at first. So I thought I’d do a little demo of how they work and … Continue reading
Posted in Electronics, Physical Computing
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Raspberry Pi Mail Checker
I was looking for some Raspberry Pi project to do that not only used external hardware (even if that means only an LED for now), but also reached out into the net to deal with some kind of real time … Continue reading
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The Ridiculous Raspberry Pi Winamp Remote – Part II
Recap As stated in my previous post, the plan was to hit a button that’s connected to my Raspberry Pi, which will trigger Winamp running on my pc laptop to play/pause. This without the Pi being physically connected to the … Continue reading
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The Ridiculous Raspberry Pi Winamp Remote – Part I
Back story I wanted a media center. I priced out cases, power supplies, hard drives, cheap motherboards, etc. and figured I could build one for a couple hundred bucks or so. Then I heard about people using Raspberry Pi’s as … Continue reading
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