Three Different RaspberryPi Projects
…With All The Trials & Errors
Arduino is definitely my favorite! Ha! I said it!
…It’s not that I did not enjoy working with the Raspberry Pi (as a matter of fact I was intrigued by it and felt super excited whenever something worked and also frustrated whenever something didn’t; But!) it took a lot of patience. I tried working on three different projects and here are the outcomes…
Setting Up the RaspberryPi :
The only actual thing I got right was setting up the RaspberryPi, downloading the required operating system, booting up the Pi, and attaching it to a screen, mouse, and keyboard like a regular desktop computer and pulling it up on the screen. The whole process, was fairly easy and straight forward and everything worked as expected.
The First Solo but then Turned into a Collaborative Project
RetroPi:
When we were learning about RaspberryPi in class I knew I wanted to work with RetroPi and to be honest I wanted to play games and call it homework. I was really excited in the beginning, and jumped straight into trying to operate it. I Installed the operating system from RetroPie.com and was able to set up everything fairly quickly and it worked as expected but the only thing missing were the games. Nicole Tang came to the rescue and we decided to redo everything and turn it into a group project. We did some research and found some insightful information that pertained to adding the games on the RaspberryPi. We took a quick field trip to the convenient store by the studio looking for a USB. Our Idea was to download the game ROMs into the USB, convert it to (FAT) and plug into the RaspberryPi to play the games. Unfortunately we only found a usb mirco-SD reader and we tried to use that but despite that, the games did not work. I would like give this project another shot and try to use a 16GB usb (not more than a 32GB USB as it won’t work) to download the game ROMS in and see if they work.
A Special Thank you to Steven Douglas for helping out and Nicole Tang for helping out and collaborating with me.
The Second Collaborative Project
RasberryPi + Whatsapp :
For this part Nicole Tang and I decided to collaborate and work together and try to create a text messaging system using the RaspberryPi, which would send messages to Whatsapp. Likewise, with this project everything worked, and the codes were up and running except we couldn’t seem to be able to actually send the messages and we believe its because we did not have access to the registration code (to be more specific we couldn’t request a registration code) for Whatsapp, which I thought was our only barrier with this project.
The Final Solo Countdown (also a project)
BlinkiePi :
The things I used:
- A breadboard
- 2 x LEDs
- 2 x resistors (220 Ohm)
- Hookup cables
This one I did alone and it was a fairly easy project to make because of my previous experience with the Arduino board (by far my favorite to work with) this project required simple circuits with two LEDs and I tried controlling them using a python code.
The two power rails are linked at the end, and a line runs from the positive power rail into the positive (anode) side of the bottom LED. The negative side of the LED is attached to a resistor, which is connected back to the ground.
The top LED is wired up differently. A line runs from pin 12 (GPIO18) of the Raspberry Pi into the positive side of the LED, which runs through the resistor and back into the ground rail. Pin 12 is also GPIO18, as confusing as that sounds.
I would also like to mention that for this specific project I installed the Raspbian NOOBS operating system to work in.
The Raspbian NOOBS operating system comes with Python already installed. and thats what I used to paste the code in to start it. The code can be found here :
A Video Compilation of All The Trials & Errors
