Michael Conners's Blog

WaRP7 Review

mconners — Tue, 08 Nov 2016 22:16:18 GMT

So Element14 was nice enough to send me one of these little WaRP7 boards to do a little evaluation prior to the Road Test. I hadn't heard of the board before, but when I looked into it, I was pretty impressed. Some of the specs:NXP i....(read more)

FM Radio on the Raspberry Pi

mconners — Sat, 06 Feb 2016 14:24:24 GMT

In my never ending (it seems) quest to make my Pi talk to all of the devices I had talking to my Arduino, I have finally gotten around to one of the funner, yet more frustrating devices. Funner because it was challenging, frustrating because it was c...(read more)

Enabling RTC on the Raspberry Pi 2

mconners — Tue, 26 Jan 2016 21:05:43 GMT

I've seen a number of questions about this lately and folks seem to have great difficulty getting this to work. I happened to have a DS1307 break out board available and thought I would try my luck. First I started out with a new copy of 201...(read more)