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Raspberry Pi – Heart beat – 8×8 LED display with I2C BackPack from AdaFruit

This is based on the AdaFruit 8×8 Bicolor LED display with I2C BackPack. It’s connected to a Raspberry Pi 2,

The Raspberry Pi is a $35 computer designed to provide a platform for children to learn computer programming. The Raspberry

Introduction Recently I ran out of space when using a Virtualbox virtual machine. Normally I use a dynamic disk that

I have already posted about the Energenie wireless remote control sockets. I’ve now had chance to look through one of

Git is a version control system. A way of keeping regular backups of files which is particularly useful for creating

I’ve been running XBMC using RaspBMC on a Raspberry Pi for some time. I’ve digitised my music and videos and

Having already done some work with LCD displays on the Arduino I had been looking for a project to use

I have been a fan of Android since I had my first mobile phone. Since Gingerbread I’ve managed to have

It’s useful to be able to turn mains electricity on using a computer program. Whilst it’s not hard to create

This is the second book that I’ve been the technical book reviewer for, the first being Learn Raspberry Pi with