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).
Volunteers needed: To help out with Raspberry Pi projects, post your ideas and comments on our Slack #Electronics channel.
Classes and Training
Classes
PPM announces all 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
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
- 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:
- 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
Cheat Sheets
Links to external sites:
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
- Geany — powerful, stable and lightweight programmer's text editor
- Mathematica — free license on every Raspberry Pi
- 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
- Pi-hole — Network-wide Ad Blocking
- Fritzing — open source software to document, share, layout, and manufacture professional PCBs
- 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:
Curated Links
Links to member-recommended external sites:
- https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi
- https://rpilocator.com/ — beat the chip and supply chain shortages
- https://learn.adafruit.com/groups/learn-raspberry-pi — by Simon Monk
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 external sites:
- The Computers that Made Britain — Raspberry Pi Press
- Kali Linux on your Raspberry Pi 4 — pen testing platform
- Sam Aaron live coding — Sonic Pi demos on YouTube
- How Raspberry Pis are made — Jeff Geerling on YouTube
- Multiple Raspberry PI 3D Scanner — on AUTODESK Instructables
- PiGlow by Pimoroni — LEDs
- 10 years of Raspberry Pi — on YouTube
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.
Search the PPM Wiki — include Content pages as well as Multimedia.
Contact Us if you cannot find your answer here on our Wiki or if you notice any information that 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.