Beginning Raspberry Pi, Arduino, and Friends

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Raspberry Pi , Arduino, And Friends This monthly meetup focuses on microcontrollers. At the time of this writing, Raspberry Pi and Arduino are the most popular devices that people are likely to have and likely to search for when seeking out a community to collaborate with. But we don't want to rule out other prototyping boards or even bare microcontroller chips like the AVR family from Atmel, TI launchpad, PIC controllers or the latest hotness on the crowd-sourcing site of the hour.

Each session, a new topic is introduced to give folks something to chew on. These topics occasionally build on previous sessions, but the workshops are kept open so folks can focus on topics from previous events or work on their own projects and get support from other attendees.

Here is a list of topics covered so far with links to tutorials covering the topic:

2015

Feb

Motion Detection - reading a PIR sensor

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruits-raspberry-pi-lesson-12-sensing-movement/


Mar

Video with Pi Camera

https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/usage/camera/README.md

Apr

Web Controlled lamp using Flask

http://mattrichardson.com/Raspberry-Pi-Flask/

May

https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/Flask-SocketIO

Jun

running raspi headless (without monitor, keyboard, or mouse)

  • run raspi-config and enable sshd (in advanced settings)
  • enable a wi-fi adapter
  • use nmap or some other tool (like the app fing for android and IOS) to find your pi on the network (or use some other clever way to know the ip address)
  • ssh into your pi
  • from here you can use tmux for console-based interaction or install and run vncserver if you like the comfort of the gui desktop

Jul

simple raspi and arduino communication over usb

http://blog.oscarliang.net/connect-raspberry-pi-and-arduino-usb-cable/

Aug

reading analog sensor via software SPI and an MCP3008 chip

https://learn.adafruit.com/reading-a-analog-in-and-controlling-audio-volume-with-the-raspberry-pi/connecting-the-cobbler-to-a-mcp3008