Overview
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Learn how to identify pins on the Raspberry Pi GPIO and program them to control lights and motors, read data from sensors, and interact with the Internet of Things.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Put your Raspberry Pi to work
- What you should know
- Equipment you will need
- Light an LED with a button press
- Connect the LED and switch hardware
- Program the LED and switch with Python
- What you learned from the LED switch project
- Why does Raspberry Pi have a GPIO?
- What are all these pins for?
- Numbering schemes: Board versus BCM
- How do I connect electronics to the GPIO?
- 1-Wire introduction
- Connect the 1-Wire
- Connect the meter
- Program the 1-Wire
- What you learned from the temperature sensor project
- Pulse width modulation in depth
- 1-Wire sensors in depth
- Which GPIO pins can be used for input
- Pull-up and pull-down with input pins
- Protecting GPIO input with resistors
- Protecting GPIO input with Zener diodes
- Introduction to SPI devices
- Connect the BME280 weather station
- Connect the RGB OLED Display
- What you learned from SPI projects
- Understanding SPI in depth
- GPIO output pins
- Protecting GPIO output pins
- Introduction to I2C devices
- Connect the servo controller via I2C
- Connect the BME280 via I2C
- Install software and test
- Control the BME280 and PCA9685
- What you learned about I2C
- I2C in depth
- Introduction to programming the Raspberry Pi GPIO
- Python and GPIO Zero control of GPIO
- Python and RPi.GPIO control of GPIO
- Scratch control of GPIO
- Bash control of GPIO
- Node-RED control of GPIO
- C control of GPIO
- Java control of GPIO
- Wolfram control of GPIO
- Binary and bitwise math
- Connect the Raspberry Pi to a terminal
- Connect to gpio TxD and RxD pins
- Enable the serial connection
- UART in depth
- Next steps
