Getting Started
This tutorial explains how to install and configure I2C on the Raspbian Buster and later distributions of Linux for the Raspberry Pi from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads. For earlier versions of Rasbian Linux please use our tutorials for Raspbian Jessie and Stretch and Raspbian...
Many of our Raspberry Pi expansion boards are supplied with the connectors unsoldered. We have chosen to sell the boards this way because it makes it easier for the user to modify the board by adding their own connectors or fitting it in a lower profile case. To make the soldering of...
Our Raspberry Pi Expansion boards use either the I2C pins, UART or SPI pins on the Raspberry Pi 's GPIO header.
All of the other GPIO pins are available to use via the stacking header connector.
I2C Pin Usage
The following expansion boards use the I2C GPIO pins:
1 Wire Pi...
This page details how to setup a static IP address on the Ethernet connection on the Raspbian Jessie or Stretch image from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
For this demo we are going to give the Raspberry Pi a static IP address of 10.0.0.220 and a subnet of 24. The...
This page details how to setup network file sharing using Samba on your Raspberry Pi to enable you to share files with Windows or OSX computers on your network using the SMB protocol.
Step 1: Open a terminal window and at the command prompt run this code to install Samba and Samba...
In this tutorial we will set up SPI python support on Raspbian linux. SPI can be used with Python versions 2 and 3. You can download Raspbian from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
SPI is disabled by default on Raspbian linux.
If you are using Raspian Linux 3.18 or later you need to...
This page details how to add the PYTHONPATH and PATH variables on the Raspbian “Wheezy” and "Jessie" image from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads to use with our Python libraries allowing you to use the libraries from your scripts from any directory on your...
This page details how to setup I2C support on the Raspbian "Wheezy" image from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
To use your Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Jessie or later please use our Raspbian Jessie I2C support tutorial.
Step 1: Download the Raspbian...
This tutorial explains how to install and configure I2C on the Raspbian Stretch distribution of Linux for the Raspberry Pi from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads. For later versions of Rasbian Linux including Raspbian Buster please use our tutorial I2C, SMBus and Raspbian Linux.
I2C,...