What is programming? Programming is the process of recording knowledge or tasks into code. Code like Python, or Javascript is a bridge “language” that allows humans to write their intent into formulas that a computer can then use like a recipe for action. Computers don’t get bored… In the previous lesson we used git to get some… Continue reading Lessons on PI – Lesson 2(cont.) A little programming…
http://zty.pe/ This game is a lot of fun, and its teaches typing skills quickly. Check it out, its been kid approved. Later, I’ll build a word list you can upload to work on typing specific words.
The Raspberry PI Foundation just released a neat way of structuring goals for a class. In addition they’ve provided a way to segment interests among the students which reflects the latest thinking in personality types. Check it out: https://www.raspberrypi.org/curriculum/ For our class – I’ll have the students pick off the first level of each area… Continue reading Raspberry PI Foundation Curriculum – Great Structure! Achievable Milestones!
The Sense Hat What’s a hat? Hats are the term that the Raspberry PI community uses to identify bits of hardware that are made to plug into the Raspberry Pi’s GPIOs (General Purpose IO) – that row of pins along one side of your pi. There are lots of these out there to make interacting with… Continue reading Lessons on PI – Lesson 4: The Sense Hat (and a little VIM)
Digital Currency is inevitable… It’s too perfect (or it will be after a bit more scaling work.) It works everywhere on the globe, the government can’t freeze it or de-value it, credit card agencies don’t have to insure it, and it’s guaranteed to be a limited resource. It’s coming… so you should probably teach your… Continue reading Bitcoin and the Modern Family
For a little servo background… See my article on the servo-trigger: Servo Triggers – Quickest, Fastest, Easiest way to make your servos dance To install node… See my NodeJS installation article: Installing NodeJS on a Raspberry PI Then… a little something on PWM Ok, a little background: Controlling servos works by using something called PWM or Pulse Width… Continue reading Controlling Servos from your PI (No extra hardware needed) using NodeJS
There are two ways… The easiest is to install using the package manager. Recently though I ran into an issue where the folks providing the package manager version forgot to include the ARMv6 build. If that’s the case while you attempt, move onto the tarball method and you’ll be up and running in no time.… Continue reading Installing NodeJS on a Raspberry PI
