Introduction to the Raspberry Pi GPIO and Physical Computing
Contributors:
asassy
Introduction
If you’ve recently picked up your first Raspberry Pi, congrats on purchasing perhaps the cheapest and smallest computer you’ll ever own! However, it sure doesn’t look like any computer you’re accustomed to, so let’s talk through the basics to get your Raspberry Pi up and running as a full desktop. We're also going to learn to interact with the GPIO, and hook up an atmospheric sensor to read in some data with Python.
We'll be reading data from an atmospheric sensor with the Raspberry Pi.
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