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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook
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Raspberry Pi Zero Cookbook

by Edward Snajder
March 2017
Beginner to intermediate
422 pages
8h 4m
English
Packt Publishing
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Monitoring the physical health of the RPZ hardware

We took a look earlier on in the look at some of the measurements. In this recipe, we will dive a little bit deeper and use our new knowledge of outputs to regulate and alert on changes in the Raspberry Pi's health.

Getting ready

For this recipe, we will need the buzzer from the previous recipe, an RGB 4-lead LED, and three 330-Ohm resistors. If you don't have an RGB LED, you can alternatively make the same circuit using individual LEDs.

How to do it...

  1. Configure the following circuit:

    How to do it...

  2. The following Python code will monitor the Raspberry Pi's health and change the values if there is a problem. Create ...
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