Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.
If you already have your hands on a Raspberry Pi and are eager to make some LEDs blink and read the status of pushbutton switches, I want to share with you this excellent tutorial by Tedb0t. He shows you the ins and outs (so to speak) of how to use the general purpose input/output (GPIO) pins on a Raspberry Pi board. He covers everything from physically connecting to the GPIO headers to accessing them within Python, Bash, and C. And to those of you who are still anxiously waiting to receive your boards, I know it’s rough, but at least you have some time to bone up on this while you wait.
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Gustavo Murtasays:
Look for connections I made for GPIO cable to Protoboard.
Matt Richardson is a San Francisco-based creative technologist and Contributing Editor at MAKE. He’s the co-author of Getting Started with Raspberry Pi and the author of Getting Started with BeagleBone.
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Look for connections I made for GPIO cable to Protoboard.
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