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**Title**: Hardware for Softies: physical computing with the Raspberry Pi\\
**Proposer**: [[2013:romilly_cocking]]\\
**Proposer**: [[2013:steve_freeman]]\\
**Type**: Preconference tutorial\\
**Duration**: 360 minutes\\
**Description**: 
In this hands-on workshop we'll create some simple physical computing applications in Python on the Raspberry Pi.\\
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We'll start by writing a program that drives a bar LED display using the Pi's GPIO pins.\\
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Then we'll look at using the i2C interface to get access to additional GPIO pins, and measure and control analogue voltages using an ADC/DAV converter chip.\\
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Most robotics applications involve movement of some sort, and we'll experiment with controlling motors and servos from the Pi.\\
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Finally we'll explore the Pi's SPI interface.\\
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