I was participating in a webinar recently and one of the attendees said that people are putting heatsinks on the wrong components on the RPi4 board. In particular, he said
Read more →Did the Maker Movement peak in the last few years? I'm basing this on the fact that my local Makerspace has pretty much disbanded. And, it seems like Maker Faires
Read more →In late November, the Raspberry Pi Foundation introduced the $5 Raspberry Pi Zero to critical acclaim. Like many people, I couldn't wait to get my hands on one. And, like many
Read more →Introduction You’ve probably have seen NeoPixels: those wonderful, colorful LEDs that only require a single wire for 24 bit color control. Maybe you’ve even bought a few of them. They’re
Read more →It all started with a support request from a Pi-Plate owner: he kept getting a message that the DAQC wasn't being found when he imported the Python library. So, we asked
Read more →We found this yesterday while researching nearby Maker Faire events. If you fast forward to the 1:25 mark, you'll see some kids interacting with the hardware at our booth.
Read more →It's no secret that we like Python here at Pi-Plates. It comes preinstalled on every build of Raspian, is pretty easy to learn, and is extremely powerful. But, no matter
Read more →Our Pi2 arrived from Element 14 on Saturday and we wasted no time getting it fired up. The first thing we did was to download the latest Raspian image. Then
Read more →In the process of writing last week's blog we got sidetracked from making our power measurements and ended up benchmarking the new Raspberry Pi 2. Well, this week, we finally
Read more →In July of 2014, the Raspberry Pi Foundation released the model B+ with much well deserved fanfare. With this design, a number of shortcomings of earlier models were addressed while
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