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Questions tagged [peripherals]

Peripherals are devices connected to the Raspberry Pi, but external from it.

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How can I determine if a given touchscreen is compatible?

I want to attach a touchscreen to my Raspberry Pi. While doing some internet search about this, I found out that this is not trivial, because not all touchscreens are compatible. How do I find out, whether a touchscreen is compatible to the…
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How to measure temperature?

What can I connect to the RPi to measure temperature? I think devices connected to the I²C or SPI would make most sense. Here is a question about DHT-22 and other 1-wire devices. But at this stage it seems that 1-wire is difficult on the RPi due to…
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How to attach an Arduino?

The Arduino website sums it up as Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive…
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What is the highest performing hardware configuration?

I know that exact benchmark numbers will vary between manufacturers, but in general if you only consider higher end flash drives, SD cards, and USB HDDs and your Raspberry Pi is connected to a network via an ethernet switch what is the fastest…
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What cameras can I connect to the CSI connector?

The model B comes with a MIPI Camera Serial Interface connector, but it's hard to find a store that'll sell you a chip or camera to interface with it. The only thing I've found so far is the the product brief for a HDMI-CSI converter by Toshiba, but…
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Hooking up a Kinect?

There is a driver project established to run Kinect on Linux. See here: https://github.com/OpenKinect/libfreenect Will this work with an RPi? What are the constraints/obstacles likely to be? I'm thinking this would be a real help for an ambitious…
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How can I use a bluetooth mouse and keyboard?

I have a spare Mac keyboard that I'd like to use with my Raspberry Pi when it's plugged into my TV, so that I can use it for surfing internet on my TV. Has anyone got a working configuration with a bluetooth mouse and keyboard, and a recipe for…
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Can I use a USB webcam?

Is it possible to use a standard USB webcam with the RPi, or is there a specific peripheral that should be used? I would like to use RPi's to stream images from webcams to the net.
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How can I control Lego motors?

I'd like to find a way to make my Raspberry Pi control some Lego motors, and as a bonus I'd like to make use of one or more optical sensors. Normally, Lego robotics make use of the Mindstorms "brick" controller - this appears to be expensive and…
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How can I connect an analog to digital converter (ADC)?

I'm looking at options for ADC on the Rasbperry Pi. I'm wondering what is possible so far. Of course easy and cheap is good.
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What advantage does the Pi-Face addon board bring to the Raspberry Pi?

I have come across the Pi-Face addon board and am wondering what additional capabilities this unlocks for the Raspberry Pi. From the website: The 'added value' we want to provide is the hardware and associated resources to interface the Raspberry…
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Is there a way to connect to a PSTN?

I'd love to run Asterisk on my Raspberry Pi. Does anyone know how I could connect to the telephone network? Obviously, PCI based cards aren't going to work.
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Can I use the screen/keyboard of a laptop with the Pi?

I have a very old, not very fast laptop. (The screen and keyboard work well, but the hard drive is dying and the RAM's getting slow). The other day an idea struck me: could I use the screen/keyboard of the laptop with the Pi? I am mainly looking to…
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To what extent can the device be used without a mouse?

I'm sure I read somewhere that the RPi can be used without a mouse, but is this 100% true? (I am planning on using debian.) To what extent can I control it without a mouse? Will I be able to do everything with just a keyboard, or are there some…
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How can I connect a HD44780 based LCD?

Expanding on this question. I am looking at a few different ways to hook up a HD44780 to the GPIO pins and the various tradeoffs. Here's my "world clock" running off a RPi using I²C So far I've just got one working using 6 GPIO pins similar to the…
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