Raspberry Pi GPIO Switch Input - Part 2: Making the Connections
This is a quick walk-through of connecting physical switches to the GPIO header of the Raspberry Pi. It assumes we will be using the internal pull-up resistors available on the Pi's Broadcom SOC.
Items referred to during the video:
• Information pertaining to the Raspberry Pi can be found at https://raspberrypi.org.
• A 5 channel rocker joystick with buttons similar to the one used in the video can be found by searching on, "five direction rocker joystick with keyboard."
• Female-to-female breadboard jumper wires similar to those used in the video can be found by searching on, "female/female jumper wires." Be sure you are getting the ones with sockets on both ends and not pins.
• The Raspberry Pi case shown is by "MP" and can be found on Thingiverse.com at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:922740
Takeaways: At the completion of this lesson, each student should be able to safely connect a switch circuit to the pins of the Raspberry Pi GPIO header.
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