Tag Archives: Arduino

The Raspberry-PI Blinks too!

Posted on July 6, 2012 by Branedy

The Raspberry-PI is now operating like an Arduino, sorta, just not as easily or with as many GPIO ports as the Arduino.

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My Chosen ‘Case’ for my RaspBerry-Pi

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Branedy

My Case of choice arrived for my Raspberry-PI today and it looks, and works fine. As I fancy myself as a ‘Maker‘ I chose this case from www.skpang.co.uk Now which wire is connected to what pin??? The knee bone is … Continue reading →

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Benchmarking the Raspberry-Pi

Posted on June 21, 2012 by Branedy

This is a crude and simple PI test against the Raspberry-Pi and a Dell Pentuim-4 (3.0Ghz) The Raspberry-Pi Starting PI… x= 0.38631 y= 0.89070 low= 939239 j=1200001 Pi = 3.130797 ztot= 801773.75 itot= 1200000 real 0m1.900s user 0m1.720s sys 0m0.000s … Continue reading →

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Learning Computers and Computing

Posted on June 18, 2012 by Branedy

I have been doing research into the nature of computers and I’ve been participating with with the phenomena know as Coderdojo. As part of my research I’ve been relearning Assembly language on several different architectures, and I’ve been experimenting with … Continue reading →

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The future of Computing in Ireland

Posted on June 17, 2012 by Branedy

There is hope for the future of computing in Ireland, at CoderDojo Cork I actually found a desk that was more cluttered with the future than my own desk at home.

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They both blink

Posted on June 12, 2012 by Branedy

This is my ELF Membership card (in the black box) running a 12 byte program that adds up to 255 then turns off the light, normally this would be about 1 per second, but I’ve been tweeking the speed dial … Continue reading →

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