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Questions tagged [gertboard]

The gertboard is an expansion board for the Pi used to safely interface with numerous devices. This is for questions pertaining to the board, and about programming using the board.

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Gertboard & pi-face, what are the major differences, and what could you use them for?

I haven't tracked down a lot of information on this on the web, and the previous notable difference of the Gertboard being DIY no longer holds. The kind of answers I'm looking for: "If you want to do x, y, z, you should go for…
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Gert Board voltage on J7 is nearly 4 volts, is this a problem?

The Pi is plugged into a wall wart and the gert board is connected. I'm having trouble getting the ATMega chip to configure so I can use it and so I started checking some voltages on the board. That's when I found that J7 jumper which is supposed…
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Gertboard or similar for Raspberry Pi 2?

I was reading some Raspberry Pi-related magazine the other day which strongly recommended a Gertboard because it makes it easier to work with motors, etc. From what I can tell, the board was designed for the original Raspberry Pi and is now…
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5V TTL output from a Gertboard?

I have just got hold of an assembled Gertboard, and I'm thinking of various useful things I can do with it... I happen to work in a neuroscience lab where we use a lot of equipment that can be controlled with 5V TTL pulses, and I really like the…
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Root access , nightmare when TRYING to learn the basics

Why have a product an software that's so tricky to grasp when it's meant to be educational. I'm trying to experiment with the gertboard an simply run Python 2.7 ( I'm using 2.7 because any other version comes up with syntax errors ) and then I try…
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where to buy the raspberry pi 7" touchscreen display board separately?

My raspberry pi 7" touchscreen display board black plastic connector (BROWN CONNECTION ABOVE RPI DISPLAY LETTERING) that holds the ribbon to the raspberry pi broke and I am looking for a replacement display adapter board. However, I have been unable…
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Anyone have tutorials on how the Gertboard can be utilized? or demos?

I just purchased a gertboard and wanted to see what others have done with it. Are there any good tutorials of how this works and how I can tap into it via the shell.
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Raspberry Pi with gertduino to use the rtc

I just setup my raspberry pi with the gertduino and I tried the given blink example. It works fine and now I wanted to use the rtc from the gertduino to set the time from the raspberry. How ever I installed i2c-tools and when I use i2cdetect the…
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Gertboard to control 4 servos?

I have been given this arm: It consists of 4 servos, which need to be controlled individually. Can I control them using Gertboard? Gertboard has only one motor driver, but it also has several open collector ports and buffered outputs. I know…
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startx command fails after deleting /tmp folder

Okay, I have done something strange which prevents my RPi from entering a graphical environment. I was messing around with my Gertboard and was in the process of configuring the ATMEGA 328P microcontroller, and I accidentally deleted the /tmp folder…
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Raspberry Pi + Gertduino

I realize this might not be a typical RPi question. However, I have a RPi with a Gertduino plugged into the GPIO headers. I can use the wrapper program_328 for avrdude to upload a precompiled blink.hex file. OR use the arduino program (with X11…
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Choosing RC car motor that can be driven with the Raspberry Pi

I bought this cheap aluminum robotics platform. Long story short the motors that were included are worthless, so I'm pretty much stuck with a frame. However, this is a nice aluminum frame, "good enough for me" and I plan on using it. I would like to…
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