The Raspberry Pi Touch Display with the SmartPi Case and Stand

The Raspberry Pi Touch Display is a 7″ Touchscreen Monitor for Raspberry Pi created by the The Raspberry Pi Foundation.
The SmartPi Touch is a third party Case and Stand from a successful Kick Starter.

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Linux Stopmotion on a Raspberry Pi

My daughter says she wants a stop motion camera for her birthday

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SimpleCV Face Detection

The project in this book goes through the steps to perform basic face detection in Simple CV.

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FAILED: Simple Soundboard with Raspberry Pi

The purpose of this project was to teach the reader how to turn a Raspberry Pi into a simple soundboard but I failed.

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Reading a button with Python

This project shows the reader how to register a button push using Python script then print the data to terminal.

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Blink an LED with Python

Yup another blink tutorial but this time with Python.

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Controlling a Lamp with a Raspberry Pi

This project shows how shell scripts, cron and the PowerSwitch Tail II can be used to control a lamp.

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Controlling an LED with Python Code

In this project, I controlled an LED using python instead of Linux command line

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Using Linux on Raspberry Pi to control an LED

I used Linux command line to configure and control the General Purpose Input and Output (GPIO) pins to turn an LED on and off.

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Installing Arduino in Raspian

This weeks I installed the Arduino IDE on Raspian

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Hello World with Python

So I've never played with Python before and The Getting Started with Raspberry Pi book gave me a good opportunity to check it out. It turns out Python is pretty simple and the book is a great introduction to it.