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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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WiringPi is a Cpp library for Raspberry Pi. With this library you can use many of the functionalities provided by the GPIO header: digital pins, SPI, I2C, UART, etc. Although there are many Python libraries for Raspberry Pi GPIOs, Cpp is quite a bit behind. Fortunately, there is WiringPi. In this post you’ll install WiringPi, … Read more
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to use and compile WiringPi in your ROS Cpp nodes, so you can talk to hardware devices from your ROS application. Make sure to read this introduction to WiringPi before if you don’t know the library well. The WiringPi library is a great tool for Raspberry Pi (4, … Read more
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to communicate between a Raspberry Pi 4 (also works with 3, 3B, 3B+) and an Arduino (Uno), using the SPI protocol. The Raspberry Pi will be configured as a master, and the Arduino as a slave. On Raspberry Pi we’ll use the WiringPi library inside a Cpp code … Read more
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to communicate between a Raspberry Pi 4 (also works with 3, 3B, 3B+) and an Arduino (Uno), using the I2C protocol. The Raspberry Pi will be configured as a master, and the Arduino as a slave. You’ll see how to setup the communication, read an write, thanks to … Read more
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to write a Cpp program with WiringPi on your Raspberry Pi board, to communicate with a sensor through I2C protocol. Make sure to read this introduction to WiringPi before if you don’t know the library well. We’ll just use the basic functionalities of the ADXL345 here: read acceleration … Read more
You want to create a nice robotics, electronics or domotic application and you wonder: when to use Arduino vs Raspberry Pi ? Could your application run with an Arduino board only, or a Raspberry Pi board only? Do you need both? In this post I’ll give you some tips on when to use each board. … Read more
In this tutorial I’ll show you how to install ROS Melodic on your Raspberry Pi 3 (B or B+), with Ubuntu MATE 18.04. [Update] Check out this new tutorial on how to install ROS2 Foxy on Raspberry Pi 4. [/Update] Why ROS on Raspberry Pi A Raspberry Pi board is perfect for being embedded in … Read more
In this tutorial I will show you how to install Ubuntu MATE 18.04 on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ board. You’ll see how to configure everything step by step. [Update] Check out this new post on how to install Ubuntu 20.04 Server on Raspberry Pi 4. [/Update] Why Ubuntu on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+? … Read more
The Raspberry Pi 4 board has a GPIO header with 40 pins. This GPIO header is also the same for Raspberry Pi 3 boards, so this guide applies to both versions. GPIOs allow you to easily use hardware features and communication, directly from a computer – the Raspberry Pi microprocessor. It brings the Raspberry Pi … Read more
So, you’re using a Raspberry Pi board, and are wondering which IDE you might use to write your code. As the Raspberry Pi resources are quite limited, and you’ll often use it headless (without a screen), the number of options you have is also quite limited. In this post I’ll show you how to install … Read more