wiringPi – deprecated…

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This has turned into a bit of a rant. Sorry.

The past 10 years or so has seen a lot of changes in my life dominated by physical and mental health issues, businesses coming and going, but also a little fun with retro-computing, arduino, and the Raspberry Pi, and the wiringPi GPIO library I’ve written for it.

However in recent years the Raspberry Pi has changed from a little hacker toy into something bigger and more and more people are turning to Python and other languages which wiringPi was never designed to support – wiringPi was designed to be used by experienced C and RTB BASIC programmers. It is not a newbie learning tool.

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How to Make a Smartphone Connected Door Lock

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See how we built it, including our materials, code, and supplemental instructions, on Hackster.io: https://www.hackster.io/hackershack/s…
In this video, we show you how to make a smartphone-controlled, internet-connected deadbolt actuator powered by a Raspberry Pi that can be added onto your existing door lock without any modifications to the door.
The door lock can be controlled by multiple smartphones, and even notify you whenever someone locks/unlocks the door. All of this is done using a simple, drag-and-drop app builder (http://www.blynk.cc/) which makes building your own Internet of Things (IoT) app easier than ever. For an extra impressive door lock, we’ll also show you how to add a simple LED light to indicate if the door is locked, and a push-button to operate the lock manually.

How to Overclock Raspberry Pi 4 To 2.0Ghz! All 4 Cores – With Benchmarks

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Warning Follow this tutorial at your own risk! The Raspberry Pi 4 can now be overclocked to 2GHZ on all 4 cores! Its only a 500Mhz overclock but it actually a really nice performance boost for the pi4 and its the highest clocks I’ve ever seen on any Raspberry Pi!
So in this video, I show you how to overclock the Pi 4 up to 2.0Ghz and I also run some benchmarks and test’s to show you how much perforce we gained with this new Overclock on the Raspberry Pi 4.

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Is the Raspberry Pi 4 really that bad? Using the Rasperry Pi 4 for 3D Printing.

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The Raspberry Pi 4 is out! If you’ve read the first impressions, you always hear about overheating and USB issues – but is it really that big of a deal? I test the Raspberry Pi 4 against the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B and against the very first Raspberry Pi and the results are stunning to say the least.


CORRECTION: The Choetech USB cable only worked with the Huawei supply, not the Anker one.