The Raspberry Pi GPIO Quick Reference Ruler is now available to back over on the Kickstarter website from just £3 with £1 Postage and packaging. Watch the video below to learn more about it.

The Raspberry Pi takes 5 volts to run, and you can connect it directly to the GPIO (general purpose input/output)—the 26 pins next to the yellow video out socket (shown above).

You can easily upgrade various features and tech in your bedroom by using Raspberry Pi, if you have the coding know-how. Here ...

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We’ve gotten used to the GPIO-available functions of Raspberry Pi computers remaining largely the same over the years, which is why it might have flown a little bit under the radar: the ...

One of the biggest draws of the Raspberry Pi family of single board computers or SBCs is their expandability. That comes via the standard 40-pin GPIO header on the full-sized boards.

With Opto-pi, there is not an electrical connection between the Raspberry Pi and connected loads (motors, relay coils, etc.) or input signals. Opto-pi uses light to isolate the 8 digital GPIO pins.

Unfortunately, that guide didn't exist when I first wanted to do this, so instead I had to piece together what to do (specifically which GPIO pins to connect to which pins on the clip) by combining a ...

The new model is a 5-inch variant with similar specifications to the refreshed 7-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 that it ...