The Raspberry Pi mini computer pairs hobbyists with practical projects that add magic and utility to your life. Check out ...

In addition to being a serviceable single board computer, the Raspberry Pi also has a header full of GPIO pins at your beck and call. [Tedbot] sent in a great tutorial on using these pins with Python, ...

A design kit for a Raspberry Pi-based motor controller board uses the module’s GPIO pins and is intended for starter-level design. The Ryanteck Raspberry Pi Motor Controller Board (RTK-000-001) is ...

If you’re building a CNC router, laser cutter, or even 3D printer, you’ll usually be looking at a dedicated controller. This board takes commands from a computer, often in the form of G-Code, and ...

There’s also a Python library (basically a set of commands you can use to control the robot) available to go alongside the HAT, which will let you write software to control the robot parts you’ve got ...

The official Raspberry Pi Foundation has this week announced the release of new GPIO expander software which has been created to provide easy access to the GPIO pins of a Raspberry Pi Zero while ...

The Raspberry Pi 5 is a fantastic little computing machine. However, no matter how powerful the Raspberry Pi 5’s CPU may be, the Raspberry Pi 5 would be a useless lump of silicon and FR4 without a ...

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