Skip to Main Content
Adventures in Raspberry Pi, 2nd Edition
book

Adventures in Raspberry Pi, 2nd Edition

by Carrie Anne Philbin
February 2015
Beginner content levelBeginner
256 pages
5h 13m
English
Wiley
Content preview from Adventures in Raspberry Pi, 2nd Edition
9781119046028-co0108.tif

THE GENERAL PURPOSE INPUT OUTPUT (GPIO) pins on the Raspberry Pi are what make it really special. The behaviour of these pins can be controlled or programmed—by you! You can use the pins to sense and control physical objects in the real world, like lights and switches. The pins are located on the main board of the Raspberry Pi, shown in Figure 8-1.

In this adventure, you’ll learn some basics of electronics and then discover how to output to a light-emitting diode (LED), making it light up using your Raspberry Pi. For the final project in the adventure, you’ll hook up a marshmallow (yes, a real marshmallow) to input a signal to your Raspberry Pi to play a Scratch marshmallow game that senses the press of a button.

9781119046028-fg0801.tif

FIGURE 8-1 The General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) pins on a Model B+ Raspberry Pi

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Experimenting with Raspberry Pi

Experimenting with Raspberry Pi

Warren W. Gay

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781119046059Purchase book