3/21/2024 0 Comments Loading wheel png![]() ![]() My dreams were full of coding and wires and all kinds of things that sounded like food but wasn’t. Things I thought would be hard took me longer! Google and YouTube were my best friends. Things I thought would be simple took me days. Nothing about this came easy to me…NOTHING. With an instructional book in hand and Google on my side my adventure started. Lots of wires, LED lights, buttons, and something called a breadboard that didn’t look anything like bread. The kit came with a bunch of fun gadgets I had zero idea what they were or how they worked. To start, I bought a Raspberry Pi kit from Amazon. (I am the most competitive person alive)īeing as passionate about yarn as I am and knowing the ends and outs of spinning, I figured what better way to dive into this new world and learn how to do something new by creating an electric spinning wheel. Once I heard there was a competition in March, I was in. I had to learn everything I could about this non fattening pi and get my head around it. I was at a WordPress Conway meetup (which happens the first Tuesday of every month at The Locals) and someone brought in their Raspberry Pi which was remotely hooked up to WordPress and the internet. I had ZERO programing or electrical knowledge before embarking upon this adventure. GPIO what you say? Basically, little pins you can use to run electrical currents and make stuff move and work. The cool thing about the Raspberry Pi in comparison to a regular computer is it has GPIO pins. The Raspberry Pi is about the size of your cell phone, just a touch bigger than a credit card. Notice the different spelling of pi not pie? Yup! Raspberry Pi is a $35 computer board. Have you heard of a Raspberry Pi? No, it’s not something you eat that goes straight to your hips. I’ll try to spare you the super technical parts. Okay friends, I’m about to get super geeky on you here, but stay with me…it’s a pretty cool thing! I made an electric spinning wheel that’s computerized and run by a Raspberry Pi. ![]()
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