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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):
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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 I will show you how to control an LED with your Raspberry Pi 4 (also works with Raspberry Pi 3 and 2) and Python 3. Controlling an LED is the first step you can take to discover how GPIOs work and what to do with them. After this you’ll be able to … Read more
Learning Python 3 with Raspberry Pi is a great idea. You will be able to write programs producing real physical results, while also learning more about computer science in general, system administration, hardware, etc. Programming is not only about smashing code into a text editor. To be able to write great programs you also need … Read more
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 thought 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