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Raspberry Pi - Interfacing To The Real World With Embedded Linux Through Applying Fundamental Engineering Principles

Exploring Raspberry Pi is the innovators' guide to bringing Raspberry Pi to life. This book favors engineering principles over a 'recipe' approach to provide you the skills you need to design and build your own projects. You will understand the fundamental principles in a way that transfers to any type of electronics, electronic modules, or external [...]

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Raspberry Pi With Java To Create Innovative Devices That Power The Internet Of Things (IoT)

This book, Raspberry Pi with Java: Programming the Internet of Things (IoT), fills an important gap in knowledge between seasoned Java developers and embedded-hardware gurus, taking a project-based approach to skills development from which both hobbyists and professionals can learn. By starting with simple projects based on open-source libraries such as Pi4J, hobbyists can get immediate results [...]

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SAE J1939 Turbo Interface Board for Raspberry Pi

A note upfront: The CAN interface board for the Raspberry Pi as described in the following, specifically the firmware code, is under current development. The hardware is ready for production, and the release is targeted for end of February 2017.This post is a follow-up on a previous post Raspberry Pi With CAN Bus Or SAE J1939 [...]

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Raspberry Pi With CAN Bus Or SAE J1939 Turbo Interface Board

A note upfront: The CAN interface board for the Raspberry Pi as described in the following, specifically the firmware code, is under current development. The hardware is currently in production, and the release is targeted for the end of February 2017. If you have a special interest in running the SAE J1939 protocol on the Raspberry [...]

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CAN Bus Interface For the Raspberry Pi 2/3 Comes With Various Options

The PiCAN2 board series by Copperhill Technologies provides CAN Bus capabilities for the Raspberry Pi 2 or 3. The boards (with the exception of the dual isolated interface) use the Microchip MCP2515 CAN controller in combination with the MCP2551 CAN transceiver. There is an easy to install SocketCAN driver, and programming can be accomplished in C [...]

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Digital I/O Carrier Board for the Raspberry Pi Single-Board Computer

Industrial automation manufacturer and IoT (Internet of Things) system developer Opto 22 has announced the release of their Digital I/O Carrier Board for the Raspberry Pi SBC, which enables the RPi to sense or switch up to 16 individually selectable electrical loads ranging from 2.5 to 280 VAC/VDC, with solid-state power and reliability. This carrier board provides [...]

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Arduino Or Raspberry Pi - Which System Is Better Suited For CAN Bus Projects?

To say it upfront, the choice between the Arduino platform and the Raspberry Pi is primarily a personal matter, depending on factors like knowledge of programming and programming languages, preferences for operating systems, and, after all, hardware knowledge. Both system architectures, while being very different from each other, provide vast software and hardware support for [...]

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Raspberry Pi Cookbook: Python Programming And Hardware Access

With millions of new users and several new models, the Raspberry Pi ecosystem continues to expand, along with a myriad of new questions about the Raspberry Pi’s capabilities.The second edition of this popular cookbook by Simon Monk provides more than 240 hands-on projects for running this tiny low-cost computer with Linux and programming it with [...]

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SAE J1939 ECU Simulator And Data Monitor for Raspberry Pi

The  jCOM.J1939.USB gateway board is a high-performance, low-latency vehicle network adapter for SAE J1939 applications. It allows any host device with a USB COM port to monitor SAE J1939 data traffic and communicate with a SAE J1939 vehicle network. The board supports the full SAE J1939 protocol according to J1939/81 Network Management (Address Claiming) and J1939/21 Transport [...]

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Controller Area Network (CAN Bus) Development And Prototyping with Raspberry Pi

The prototyping of Controller Area Network (CAN) applications used to be a tedious and expensive task, but the recent years have seen the emergence of low-cost, yet easy-to-use embedded development platforms such as the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi is a low cost, credit-card sized computer that plugs into a computer monitor or TV, and uses a standard [...]

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