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RASPBERRY PI
Workpackage: Description: Basics and Shields This worksheet is about some boards which we will maybe use in further worksheets. A very important board is the Gertboard. Another board which will be explained is the PiFace. 5 Raspberry Pi Basics Raspberry Pi Components Gertboard PiFace Useful Resources Hardware: Raspberry Pi and Standard Equipment Gertboard PiFace

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DIGITAL INPUTS AND OUTPUTS

Basics
The Raspberry Pi is a very cheap Single-Board-Computer which is as big as a credit card. Some parts of the hardware are very similar to the hardware of smartphones. The price for the Model B you can see in the picture below incl. an 8 GB SD card is currently 32.88. It was developed with the intention of promoting the teaching of basic computer science in schools. The recommended programming language is python, but there are many other languages which enable programming on the Raspberry Pi. This very cheap computer does also have a GUI very similar to Ubuntu because the operation system Raspbian is based on Ubuntu.

P ICTURE 1: R ASPERRY P I - MODEL B

Components
CPU: Broadcom BCM2835 LAN-Controller GPIO Headers Micro USB Power RCA Video-Out Stereo-Audio-Out 3,5 mm 2x USB HDMI SD-Card-Slot GPIO Headers (26 pins)

The Raspberry Pi has 26 pins which are all digital. So we need some extension boards which enable us to work with analogue inputs, handle motors or other things that could not be done with digital IOs.

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Shields
Gertboard
This board extends the possibilities of the Raspberry Pi significantly. Here the components of the board: - 12 x buffered I/O pins - 3 x push-button switch - 6 x open collector driver (50 V; 0,5 A) - 48 V, 4A motor controller - 28-pin dual in line Atmega Microcontroller - 2-Channel 8/10/12 Bits Digital/Analogue Converter - 2-Channel 10 Bits Analogue/Digital Converter Due to the fact that there is a Gertboard manual for all use-cases including C and python code, it is easier to develop in one of this languages. But we will also try to work with node.js. To use this board we also need some straps (female connector) and jumpers. Straps connect two parts of Gertboard together, whilst jumpers conveniently connect two adjacent pins together.

P ICTURE 2: G ERTBOARD

PiFace Board
The PiFace Board is smaller than the Gertboard. It can be directly plugged onto the top of the Raspberry Pi.

P ICTURE 3: P IFACE B OARD

This board has the following in- and outputs: - 8 digital inputs - 8 digital outputs - 4 switches - 4 LEDs - 2 electrical relays

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Useful Resources
Raspberry Pi Expansion Boards: http://elinux.org/RPi_Expansion_Boards About Gertboard: http://elinux.org/RPi_Gertboard Gertboard User Manual: http://dlnmh9ip6v2uc.cloudfront.net/datasheets/Dev/RPi/Gertboard_UM_with_python.pdf Gertboard Projects: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/tag/gertboard About PiFace: http://www.piface.org.uk/products/piface_digital/ PiFace Getting started: http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/1684425.pdf

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