Raspberry Pi
Pikes Peak Makerspace (PPM) is dedicated to supporting our maker community in their creative process by providing shared space, shared tools, software, 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 (Level 1).
The information on this page is incomplete.
Please post your suggestions on our Slack channel #ppm-wiki.
Classes and Training
Area Contact — Volunteers needed
- To help out with the Raspberry Pis, post your ideas and comments on Slack
Classes
- Pikes Peak Makerspace announces its Upcoming events, including classes, on Meetup
Training
Links to external sites:
- Raspberry Pi cheat sheet
- Bash Cheat Sheets
- tmux Cheat Sheet & Quick Reference
- Raspberry Pi official website
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
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
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
Pikes Peak Makerspace is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, so we can provide a receipt for any donations you make.
- micro SD cards, any size
- official Raspberry Pi touch screen
- Raspberry Pi 4 or 400
Application Software
Links to external sites:
- 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
Member Showcase
Pi Countdown Timer
by Warren Jokinen
(10/20/22)
Mall Map/kiosk,
"finished"
(09/03/22)
Mall Map,
Work In Progress
(06/08/22)
Mall Map,
Work In Progress
RPi Workstation (November 2021) 
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:
Curated Links
Links to external sites:
- https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/books — free downloads
- https://www.tomshardware.com/news/raspberry-pi — Everything you need to know
- https://rpilocator.com/ — beat the chip and supply chain shortages
- http://exploringrpi.com/ — advanced book by Derek Molloy
- https://learn.adafruit.com/groups/learn-raspberry-pi — by Simon Monk
Other Fun Stuff
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:
- How credit-card size computers 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
- 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.