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Category Archives: Hardware
Taking Hi-Res Photos With The Pi Camera Module
Taking photos with the Pi Camera Module is easy once you have plugged it in and made the correct configuration changes. In order to do this make sure you have read my Installing The Raspberry Pi Camera Module page. Once … Continue reading
Installing The Raspberry Pi Camera Module
The Official Raspberry Pi camera module is here at last. The full specification can be found on my Official Raspberry Pi Camera Module page. This page aims to show how to get the camera connected and ready to go. Depending … Continue reading
How To Disable The Red LED On The Pi Camera Module
The Pi camera module includes a red LED in one corner of the PCB. This lights up when the camera is active. It’s really useful in giving a visual indication that the camera is doing something and most of the … Continue reading
Pi Camera Module Mechanical Dimensions
Having played around with the Pi camera I quickly realised I needed to make some sort of stand for it. The module weighs almost nothing and is tiny so it can be quite hard to keep in one place when … Continue reading
The Official Raspberry Pi Camera Module
The first add-on from the Raspberry Pi Foundation is the official camera module “RaspiCam”. It’s been a long time coming but it is finally available to buy from Farnell, CPC (order code SC13023) and RS. The module attaches directly to … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi CPU Usage Monitoring With A BerryClip
While wandering the internet I found an article Raspberry Pi: CPU usage monitoring using GPIO by chteuchteu. This explained how to display the current CPU usage on 7 LEDs attached to the GPIO header. I thought this would be a … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi AA Battery Shoot-out
Having previously run my Raspberry Pi from a set of AA batteries I decided to test all the different types I had available to see which ones lasted the longest. This wasn’t going to be a scientific test but I … Continue reading
Berryclip 6 LED Board Testing in C
This post is for the lucky owners of the BerryClip 6 LED add on board and is the first of a series of posts to get you started with an alternative to Python. This article covers using C, but there … Continue reading
Top 10 Things to Connect to Your Raspberry Pi
During my time with the Pi I’ve experimented with various devices and sensors. Here is my Top 10 list of devices to connect to the Raspberry Pi. In most cases they are very cheap and easy to interface and are … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi 1- Wire Digital Thermometer Sensor
While searching for a simple way to measure temperature using my Raspberry Pi I came across the DS18B20 1-wire digital temperature sensor. This promised an accurate way of measuring temperature with a few wires and almost no external components. The … Continue reading