Tips for the Raspberry Pi
I have been using my various Pis for going on 2 years now and have done some projects that worked and some that didn't. I have found some tips that I thought I should pass on. First off is organizing your SD cards, these little beauties were found at ACE hardware during a sale for a buck each, just $1.
The regular SD cards fit fine and just enough room to slide out when you tip the case over a bit.
Above you can see the size comparison with my Pis in the Coupe cases by Pimoroni. I really like these Pi cases mainly because they allow full access to the GPIO headers and all the ports and look great!
Another Tip for you is if you have several SD cards for your Pis and there isn't room to label them with what you might be doing with each one, I create a "Projects" file on the desktop of each one so I can quickly look at it to see what is installed and what I had planned for it. I use 'Abiword' for mine but you can use whatever you choose.
The Alamode Board
The Alamode is a board that adds an Arduino MCU to your Pi and allows you to program it with the Linux version of the Arduino IDE. It's even on sale right now through the MakerShed.com website.
Now to adding the Alamode to the Pi, it just plugs into the GPIO header of the Pi just like a HAT would.
I am just using my Model B but the Alamode is compatible with the B+ and 2 B.
There are steps to get Raspbian setup for the Alamode that can be found here: http://bit.ly/1UCap1b
It is quite lengthy so I won't re-hash the whole thing here but it should not be too difficult to figure out.
Part of those steps is to install the Arduino IDE for Raspbian, version 1.0.1 to be precise.
Even though it's an older version is still functions just fine for everything I have thrown at it.
Next time: I will visit the Seeed Electronic Brick Starter Kit and compiling some lessons from a PDF related to the Brick set using the Alamode and the Pi.
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