Course: Teaching Physical Computing with Raspberry Pi and Python

Throughout this course, you are sure to have many successes and a fair few failures. To get the most from the experience, take every opportunity to celebrate and share your …

Just like last week, we’re going to use the ‘development environment’ IDLE, to write and run Python code. Open IDLE by clicking on Menu > Programming > Python 3 (IDLE) …

The GPIO pins are one way in which the Raspberry Pi can control and monitor the outside world by being connected to electronic circuits. The Pi can control LEDs, turning …

In Week 1, you learned how to set up the Raspberry Pi, and wrote your first few lines of code in Python. You also looked at how the Raspberry Pi …

Throughout this course, you are sure to have many successes and a fair few failures. To get the most from the experience, take every opportunity to celebrate and share your …

Before you begin the course properly we’d like to introduce the Raspberry Pi Learning team who will be around throughout this course to offer support and guidance. Marc Scott Marc …

Plugging in your Raspberry Pi Begin by placing your SD card into the SD card slot on the Raspberry Pi. It will only fit one way. Next, plug your keyboard …

So you’ve got a Raspberry Pi, and you’ve made sure you have all the physical equipment you need. Now what? It’s time to get yourself an operating system and boot …

It may not look much like the computers you are used to, but this is because we are accustomed to seeing a computer in a case, with a monitor, keyboard …

Over the past two weeks of the course, you have acquired a set of physical computing skills. This week, you are going to use those skills to create a physical …

In this step I will show you the design life cycle, as well as suggesting some questions you can use to follow the process. If you apply these questions to …

In this step, you will be introduced to another class of input device: sensors. You will look at the types of data they return, and some of the things you …

Just like last week, in this step you are going to reflect on what you achieved in the project you just completed. You are going to think about buttons and …

Now that you have learnt about input devices and the types of data they return, I would now like you to use one in a physical computing project. There are …

You have just completed your first physical computing project! Congratulations, and welcome to the wonderful world of blinky lights. I would like to use this step to reflect on what …