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Raspberry Pi is a very small and powerful board. You can use Raspberry Pi in many different applications: home automation, security system, robotics, web server, etc.
The online community around Raspberry Pi has been growing a lot over the past few years. And it’s still growing! Thus, learning how to use and program your Raspberry Pi will allow you to build many amazing projects, and share them with other people. It will also be very easy to get help online, through forums or tutorials like the ones below.
The Raspberry Pi tutorials you’ll find here are mostly focused on programming and robotics.
Here are some of the topics we cover about Raspberry Pi (non exhaustive list):
Scroll down to see all the Raspberry Pi tutorials. You can also use the search bar (top right). If you don’t find what you want, feel free to contact us, and we might create a new Raspberry Pi tutorial directly from your needs!
Also, for more video tutorials you can go to the Robotics Back-End Youtube channel. There you’ll find additional Raspberry Pi tutorials.
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In this tutorial you will learn how to use the Raspberry Pi camera with the Python picamera library. You will use picamera to capture images and videos, and also to customize the settings of the Pi camera. The tutorial works for Raspberry Pi 4, but also for previous versions of the board: RPi 2 and … Read more
In this tutorial I will show you how to take a picture with the Raspberry Pi camera, from the Raspberry Pi OS (previously named Raspbian). The Raspberry Pi camera module is a great addition to your Pi. It will allow you to develop more advanced applications with vision. And if you though that taking pictures … Read more
In this tutorial you’ll see how to get started with Thonny IDE on Raspberry Pi OS. So, you’ve installed Raspberry Pi OS on your Raspberry Pi 4 (also works for 2 & 3) to start programming with Python 3. If you begin, you want to use tools that just work. You don’t want to waste … Read more
So, you’re starting to learn how to use your Raspberry Pi 4 board, and you may be wondering: what can you do with your Pi? What fun project can you start, and what can this project teach you so you’re progressing while building something? In this post I’ll give you some things to do with … Read more
In this tutorial you will learn how to run ROS2 on multiple machines, including a Raspberry Pi 4 board. As you’ll see, things will be quite easy and there is almost no configuration to do. If you’re using a Raspberry Pi with ROS2 as one of the machines, make sure you have correctly installed ROS2 … Read more
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to enable ssh on Raspberry Pi 4, with the Raspberry Pi OS (previously Raspbian). On Raspberry Pi OS, ssh is disabled by default, so you’ll have to find a way to enable ssh + find the IP address + connect to it. I will separate the tutorial into 2 … Read more
In this tutorial you will learn how to install ROS2 Foxy Fitzroy on Raspberry Pi 4. ROS2 is a great framework/middleware for robotics applications. With a Raspberry Pi board you can go much further, and embed a complete ROS2 application inside a small robot. For example, if you want to build a mobile base with … Read more
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to install Ubuntu 20.04 on Raspberry Pi 4, without needing any external monitor/keyboard/mouse. Just your computer (with which you’re reading this tutorial now), your Raspberry Pi 4 board, a micro SD card, and the power cable. I will also show you how to completely configure Ubuntu server on your … Read more
Have you ever wanted to control your Arduino board from a Raspberry Pi (or your computer), using only Python and not the Arduino language? Here comes pyFirmata, a Python library based on the Firmata protocol. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to setup pyFirmata and write complete programs using real hardware. You’ll need: An … Read more
So, you’re using – or want to use – ROS on a Raspberry Pi. That’s great! ROS + Raspberry Pi is such a powerful combination to create smart robots, with a somehow low cost, and very small electronic board embedded in the robot. Although there are many advantages, there are also some limitations that you … Read more