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).

Classes and Training

Area Captain -- Volunteers needed

To help out with the Raspberry Pis or Electronics, post your ideas and comments on Slack.

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Classes

Pikes Peak Makerspace announces its Upcoming events, including classes, on Meetup

Training

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

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  OPEN HOUSE at PPM
  June 30th, 2016
  slide 1, Intro
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  OPEN HOUSE at PPM
  June 30th, 2016
  slide 2, Hardware
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  Raspberry Pi
  slideshow poster

Tips

How to Rotate the Raspberry Pi screen

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

For Additional Help

Use the PPM Slack channels #electronics or #general

Or message Warren Jokinen on Slack

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)

Wish List

Raspberry Pi 400 or 4 boards, etc.

Software

32-bit Raspberry Pi OS "Buster", -- (not "Bullseye", yet)

balenaEtcher -- flash 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

Visual Studio Code Tips

Member Showcase

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  "Mall Map",
  Work In Progress
  (06/08/22)
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  "Mall Map",
  Work In Progress
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  RPi Workstation (November 2021)
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  Raspberry Pi computers
  (Dec 2017)
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  Raspberry Pi computers
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  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

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

10 years of Raspberry Pi -- on YouTube

50 Raspberry Pi Hacks & Tips You Should Know

Jeff Geerling -- and Red Shirt Jeff: Destroyer of Pi's

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