circuit - Grant Winney

4 Results tagged on "circuit":

May 19, 2016

Generating Morse Code on the Raspberry Pi Using a Button on a Breadboard

I created a morse code generator before based on entering a string at the console. Now I extended it to generate a message with a button click....

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May 09, 2016

Using PullUp and PullDown Resistors on the Raspberry Pi

When you start out creating circuits with the Raspberry Pi and its GPIO pins, there's an unexpected but important concept to understand, called "floating". To adjust for it, you need to understand how to use pullup and pulldown resistors....

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Apr 03, 2016

Building a Morse Code Transmitter on a Raspberry Pi

I had made the Raspberry Pi blink an LED a few times, and as thrilling as that had been ;) I wanted to try something different. So I built a morse code transmitter!...

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Mar 26, 2016

Hello World for the Raspberry Pi (Making an LED Blink)

I finally unboxed my Pi a few weeks ago, and since then I’ve been learning some Python, which is the primary language of the Pi. A whole new world opens up when you start experimenting with the GPIO pins, which let you interact with other devices and react to the surrounding environment....

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