Raspberry Pi 101 (LCD Control)

Edit 6-8-16

Steps you can take before you come

Setup your Rasperry Pi with Raspian and ensure it works

If you can solder your kit together using the Adafruit instructions

Bonus points if you can control it over SSH

What to bring to the shop

Bring your Rasperry Pi and whatever components you have to the shop

Bring your laptop to use in conjunction for information gathering and sshing into your PI if you have it setup

Edit 6-7-16

Well this blew up. Because of the amount of people we will not have the time yo have everyone solder their boards and full troubleshoot, and go through the programming

So here are your options.

Setup your Raspberry PI with Raspian and pre fabricate your board before you show. There are handy internet articles on how to do all of this.

Otherwise

I will be showing at 10am. People who donate to the shop will be allowed to come in and solder their display boards.

Other at 1 PM I will be displaying my unit, how the python code works, and answering questions for an hour or so. Anyone else can use our equipment, although I will give priority to those who donate shop funds

If you just wanted to show up to listen and learn please feel more than welcome to come. Knowledge should be free and I will be happy to talk your ear off about GPIO pins and Python code

Why am I being such a greedy asshole and asking for money

Two reasons

1. The shop isn't free, nor is the electricity or the soldering iron. None of us make money off the shop, we use the money to keep it open to host these classes.

2. It weeds out the floozies. No offense but half you fuckers that signed up probably aren't even gonna show (the half of you that will show are not fuckers but welcome guests of the 23b shop). If you're not serious I don't want you wasting the time of people that actually want to learn.

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Ever been jealous of all the cool electronics hackers at Null Space that can make electricity do their bidding, a lot of the time just to make lights blink? I was too, until I learned that these days its pretty easy to be a noob and still get electronics to make lights blink. During this session I will impart this knowledge on you as well.

In this session we will be assembling an LCD kit from Adafruit and using Python on a Raspberry Pi to control the display. This one is a bit more in depth than the usual classes. We will be covering soldering basics, electronics basics, computing basics, and programming. You will need to come to this session with a Raspi and Adafruit LCD kit in hand, or you can just show up and watch if interested.

Updates

Bring a Raspberry Pi and this electronics kit from Adafruit

https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-16x2-character-lcd-plus-keypad-for-raspberry-pi/overview

Also a high stack header if you want access to the pins. I would reccomend it

https://www.adafruit.com/product/1112

Due to the volume of people attending this session might be a little tough. I'll think about logistics and post here again. But keep in mind donations to 23b put you in a more favorable position :) Help us keep the shop going and so we can keep doing stuff like this