Raspberry Pi
Pikes Peak Makerspace (PPM) is dedicated to supporting our maker community in their creative process by providing shared space, shared tools, materials and a knowledge base to turn their ideas into reality.
We have on hand 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).
The information on this page is incomplete.
Please post your suggestions on our Slack channel #ppm-wiki.
Developer Link
Classes and Training
Area Captain -- Volunteers needed
- To help out with the Raspberry Pis or Electronics, post your ideas and comments on Slack.
- View all PPM Area Captains
Classes
- Pikes Peak Makerspace announces its Upcoming events, including classes, on Meetup
Training
- Bash Cheat Sheets
- tmux Cheat Sheet & Quick Reference
- Getting started with Raspberry Pi Pico
- 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.)
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
- 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.)
- At times the Pi 3 B+ may seem slow or unresponsive, so check the green light at the edge of the board for activity.
- Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ (2017) 1400 MHz:
- WolframMark Benchmark Result: 0.14
- Raspberry Pi 400 1800 MHz:
- WolframMark Benchmark Result: 0.23
- Raspberry Pi 4 Model B (2018), 2000 MHz:
- WolframMark Benchmark Result: 0.24
50 Raspberry Pi Hacks & Tips You Should Know
For Additional Help
- Use the PPM Slack channels #electronics or #general
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)
Donations Received
Wish List
- Raspberry Pi 400 or 4 boards, etc.
- 32GB micro SD cards
Software
- 32-bit Raspberry Pi OS "Buster", -- (not "Bullseye", yet)
- balenaEtcher -- flash or clone OS images to SD cards & USB drives
- Mathematica -- free license on every Raspberry Pi
- Processing-- language for learning and prototyping
- Scratch-- the world’s largest coding community for children
- Thonny -- Python IDE for beginners
- tmux -- allows multiple terminal sessions simultaneously
Member Showcase
"Mall Map",
Work In Progress
(06/08/22)
"Mall Map",
Work In Progress
RPi Workstation (November 2021) 
Raspberry Pi computers
(Dec 2017)
Raspberry Pi computers
(Dec 2017)
18x24 poster
of RPi Books
- For even more member projects, visit our #showcase channel on Slack, or follow our social media links.
See Also
Links to other PPM Wiki pages (internal links):
Curated Links
Links to other sites (external links):
- https://rpilocator.com/ -- beat the chip and supply chain shortages
- https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/books -- free downloads
- http://exploringrpi.com/ -- advanced book by Derek Molloy
- https://learn.adafruit.com/groups/learn-raspberry-pi -- by Simon Monk
Other Fun Stuff
- POWERED BY RASPBERRY PI -- Jeff Geerling on YouTube
- 10 years of Raspberry Pi -- on YouTube
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