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RTC Pi

RTC Pi setup on Raspberry Pi OS

This page details how to setup the RTC Pi on the Raspberry Pi OS image from https://www.raspberrypi.org/software/operating-systems/ Step 1: With your Raspberry Pi switched off install the RTC Pi on the Raspberry Pi GPIO port and insert a CR2032 coin battery into the battery holder. Using...

RTC Pi storing integers in RTC memory

This demo shows how to write to and read from the internal battery backed memory on the DS1307 RTC chip as used on the RTC Pi and Expander Pi using Python. Step 1: With your Raspberry Pi switched off install the RTC Pi on the Raspberry Pi GPIO port and insert a CR2032 coin battery into the...

RTC Pi storing double values in RTC memory

This demo shows how to write to and read from the internal battery backed memory on the DS1307 RTC chip as used on the RTC Pi and Expander Pi Step 1: With your Raspberry Pi switched off install the RTC Pi on the Raspberry Pi GPIO port and insert a CR2032 coin battery into the battery...

RTC Pi and Arduino

The RTC Pi can be used with Arduino boards using the easy to use RTCLib library written by JeeLab. The library can be downloaded from https://github.com/abelectronicsuk/ABElectronics_Arduino_Libraries To use the library with the Arduino IDE Download the project files in ZIP or...

Realtime Clock RTC Pi and Beaglebone Black

The RTC Pi can be used with the Beaglebone Black linux computer board Connecting the RTC Pi to the BeagleBone Black Turn off and unplug your BeagleBone Black You also need to add a 2K resistor between the SDA to 3.3V and SCL to 3.3V. The Beaglebone Black needs a lower pullup resistance...