Raspberry Pi
At Pikes Peak Makerspace (PPM) we have several Raspberry Pi boards, of various models, as well as other computers throughout our space for all our members to use without any additional required training (Level 1).
To help out with Raspberry Pi projects, post your ideas and comments on our Slack #Electronics channel.
Classes and Training
Classes
PPM announces its Upcoming events, including classes, on Meetup
Training
Links to external sites:
- Product Information Portal
- Raspberry Pi — official documentation
- MagPi — The official Raspberry Pi magazine
- https://store.rpipress.cc/ — Raspberry Pi PRESS
- https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/books — free downloads
- https://learn.adafruit.com/groups/learn-raspberry-pi — by Simon Monk
Events
- Pi Day, March 14th (3/14), is celebrated yearly often by eating pie, pizza, and/or reciting the digits of pi.
- It was started in 1988 by the Exploratorium museum in San Francisco: https://www.exploratorium.edu/pi
OPEN HOUSE at PPM
June 30th, 2016
slide 1, Intro
OPEN HOUSE at PPM
June 30th, 2016
slide 2, Hardware
Raspberry Pi
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Tips
- 50 Raspberry Pi Hacks & Tips You Should Know
- Five Ways To Run a Program On Your Raspberry Pi At Startup
- Rotate the Raspberry Pi screen
- To find out which shell you're using, run the command
echo $SHELLorps $$ - List/check installed fonts
fc-list | grep "DejaVu Sans" - At times the Pi 3 B+ may seem slow or unresponsive, so check the green light at the edge of the board for activity:
- WolframMark Benchmark Results:
- Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ (2017), 1400 MHz: 0.14
- Raspberry Pi 400, 1800 MHz: 0.23
- Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (2018), 2000 MHz: 0.24
- To find out which shell you're using, run the command
- Shut down the Raspberry Pi properly:
- use the GUI or the command:
sudo shutdown -h now - (just pulling the plug may cause memory card corruption.)
- use the GUI or the command:
Cheat Sheets
Links to external sites:
- Raspberry Pi Commands Cheat Sheet
- Raspberry Pi cheat sheet
- Bash Cheat Sheets
- tmux Cheat Sheet & Quick Reference
Equipment Lists
Hardware
- 1) Raspberry Pi 3 B+ (heatsinks, no case) for "Mall Map"
- large HDMI (VIZIO) display with remote
- 32GB SD card (no SSD)
- wired USB keyboard and mouse (Dell)
- Wi-Fi connection
- 2) Raspberry Pi with volumio audio player
- 3) Raspberry Pi from Epilog engraver area
- 4) Raspberry Pi from 3D Printer donation
- 5) "r pi 3 friendly" Dell monitors (quantity 5)
Pikes Peak Makerspace is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, so we can provide a receipt for any donations you make.
- Raspberry Pi 5
- micro SD cards, any size
- official Raspberry Pi touch screen
- Raspberry Pi 4 or 400
Application Software
Links to external sites:
- Raspberry Pi Imager — install Raspberry Pi OS and other operating systems
- balenaEtcher — flash or clone OS images to SD cards & USB drives
- Mathematica — free license on every Raspberry Pi
- Geany — powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor
- Processing — language for learning and prototyping
- Scratch — the world’s largest coding community for children
- Sonic Pi — code-based music creation and performance tool
- tmux — allows multiple terminal sessions simultaneously
- ImageMagick — create, edit, compose, or convert digital images
- Fritzing — open source software to document, share, layout, and manufacture professional PCBs
- Pi-hole — Network-wide Ad Blocking
- List of free and open-source software packages — on Wikipedia
Member Showcase
Mall Map/kiosk, "finished"
(09/03/22)
Mall Map, Work In Progress
(06/08/22)
Mall Map, Work In Progress
Raspberry Pi Workstation
(November 2021)
Raspberry Pi computers
(December 2017)
18x24 poster of MagPi Books
- Our Raspberry Pi-based kiosk documentation and code — on GitHub
- For even more member projects, visit our #showcase channel on Slack, or follow our social media links.
Related Pages
Links to related PPM Wiki pages:
Hand-Curated Links
Links to member-recommended external sites:
- https://octoprint.org/ — web interface for your 3D printer
- https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/raspberry-gpio/gpio-pinout
- https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi
- https://rpilocator.com/ — beat the chip and supply chain shortages
The Raspberry Pi was originally going be a computer that could only run the Python language. (That is how it got the second half of its name.)
Links to YouTube:
- 10 years of Raspberry Pi — by Eben Upton, CEO
- Sam Aaron live coding — Sonic Pi demos
- How Raspberry Pis are made — Jeff Geerling
Links to other external sites:
- The Computers that Made Britain — Raspberry Pi Press
- Kali Linux on your Raspberry Pi 4 — pen testing platform
- Multiple Raspberry PI 3D Scanner — on AUTODESK Instructables
For Additional Help
- Use the PPM Slack channels #electronics or #general
- List of all PPM Slack channels
- Note that we have a Slack channel (#job-board) for members to post, discuss, or accept job opportunities either within PPM or from the community.
- PPM Tool Color Map — Interactive
- Search the PPM Wiki — include both Content pages and Multimedia
- Contact Us if you cannot find your answer here on our Wiki, or you notice something is outdated.
Pikes Peak Makerspace (PPM) is dedicated to supporting our maker community in their creative processes by providing shared space, shared tools, materials, software and a knowledge base to turn their ideas into reality.