The Raspberry Pi does not save the date permanently. With the help of the Raspberry Pi RTC (Real Time Clock) module DS1307 you have a real-time clock – regardless of an existing internet connection. This is an advantage in many applications that require a timestamp but cannot be connected to the Internet. Especially for outdoor […]
If you have several smaller or one larger project, you will soon discover that the GPIO pins of the Raspberry are fastly becoming too little. For all of you, this tutorial will show you how to use an I2C Port Expander to easily multiply the GPIO pins many times over.
For weather stations and similar projects, it is often important to determine the air pressure. How to determine the temperature and humidity with sensors has already been shown in previous tutorials. With the help of the barometer BMP180 the air pressure (in hPa / bar) can be determined via the I²C bus of the Raspberry […]
LCD character displays are a simple and a cost-effective way to display a text. Thanks to the HD44780 controller, the control of the modules has become very simple. However, one must occupy many GPIOs for it. An alternative is the I2C data bus, which means that only two GPIOs are used. In this tutorial a […]
Pretty much any hobby project can be implemented with the Raspberry Pi, but getting started is often not that easy, especially for children. Due to the low price, the Raspberry Pi comes without accessories, which is also a small hurdle. The CrowPi 2 is a Raspberry Pi laptop that tries to solve this problem: In […]
One of the most popular projects besides home automation and robots is the Raspberry Pi weather station. This can be used in both indoor and outdoor circumstances and can be expanded as required. We either display the data from other devices via a web interface or use the Raspberry Pi touchscreen. In this tutorial, we […]
One of the special features of the Raspberry Pi is the programmable input-output pins. These so-called GPIOs can easily be switched via a program, which we will go through in this tutorial. For this we will write a Python program, on the one hand, we record inputs and on the other hand, we switch the […]
Thanks to the inexpensive Raspberry Pi Zero, Internet of Things (IoT) projects will continue to grow. One disadvantage which the Zero (not W) and A+ models have is the lack of Ethernet connectivity. That would not be a problem, if not just a single (micro) USB port onboard. In order to connect these models with the […]
Anyone who has ever thought of a car PC has certainly dealt with radio reception. Now there are not too many possibilities to use the Pi as an FM receiver, but one is the Si4703 module, which is used here. In a previous tutorial, I have already shown how to use the Raspberry Pi as […]
Frequently, a lot of data is generated in projects that run around the clock. One way to store them permanently is to store the data in a local database. However, there are also some reasons that speak against it. In order to keep the measured data (for example, from a weather station) available in the […]
The most common controller of multi-line character displays is the HD44780. There are several Raspberry Pi LCD display sizes (8×2, 16×2, 20×4, etc.) that run with it. In this tutorial, I will show how to use a 16×2 character display and also run a test script.
