Once you've received our board kits, you'll need to assemble them, install our software libraries on your Pi. Then you can test your assembled boards to make sure that everything is working. Raspberry Pi Interface Board Assembly Guide Testing...

As we mentioned, the version 0.4  beta boards have got minor defects. Interface board : The track that connects P6 on the 10-way female to header pin 22 (SOC 25) was deleted by mistake. This meant that reading from the pin always returned a 0 and ...

If you don't know how to add software sources to your Raspberry Pi, here's an introductory step-by-step guide. Ensure your software is completely up to date: sudo apt-get upgrade Ensure GPG is initialised: gpg --list-keys If this succeeds...

Introduction The Raspberry Pi is an amazing piece of hardware. It's an incredibly inexpensive platform for running software, and its expansion header is designed to help you link up your Pi to the real world. In this series of tutorials we'll explore t...

You've tested your interface board, you've assembled your analogue board and now you want to try it out. Here's a set of quick tests that will check the board is working correctly. You'll also learn some of the basics of the Analogue Board API. Since...

The great thing about the RasberryPi is that it encourages owners to cover the whole range of the computing experience, from hardware structure to interactive media. It exposes pins for plugging in low-level devices, and it's also 1-2 orders of magnitude...

Installing third-party software If you're thinking of using our libraries (or other third-party libraries) on your Raspberry Pi, you've probably seen references to git and GitHub. You may be a veteran git user, in which case you can skip this article, b...

I2C and SPI I2C (Inter Integrated Circuit Communications, pronounced I squared C) and SPI (or Serial-Peripheral interface) are protocols that can link a microcomputer to other micros or integrated circuits. Both protocols are widely used in hobby ...