Raspberry Pi 3 Starter Kit Hookup Guide
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Raspberry Pi Accessories
If you are looking to add additional features, check out the accessories to power your Raspberry Pi remotely, build a homemade motion-activated security system, or go retro by building your own arcade controller to emulate classic video games!
SparkFun PiRetrocade
KIT-14007
With the Pi 3 reading buttons and toggling LEDs, you're sure to be the coolest kid on the block, but what else can it do? Let us know how you use your Pi 3 in the comments! Otherwise, here are some links to our other Pi resources.
- Raspberry Pi Forums: Is Your Pi Not Booting? - Troubleshooting tips and solutions for a Raspberry Pi that is not booting up.
- The gPIo tutorial
- The SPI and I2C tutorial
Need some inspiration? Check out these tutorials and projects.
Single Board Computer Benchmarks
How to set up different benchmarking programs on single board computers or computing modules and run them. The results for various generations are shown on the subsequent pages.
Raspberry Pi Stand-Alone Programmer
This tutorial will show you how to use a headless Raspberry Pi to flash hex files onto AVR microcontrollers as a stand-alone programmer. It also tells the story about production programming challenges, how SparkFun came to this solution, and all the lessons learned along the way.
Setting up a Raspberry Pi 3 as an Access Point
This guide will show you how to configure a Raspberry Pi as an access point and connect it to your local Ethernet network to share Internet to other WiFi devices.
Python GUI Guide: Introduction to Tkinter
Tkinter is the standard graphical user interface package that comes with Python. This tutorial will show you how to create basic windowed applications as well as complete full-screen dashboard examples complete with live graph updates from matplotlib.
Or check out some of these blog posts for ideas: