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Raspberry Pi Embedded Projects Hotshot

You're reading from  Raspberry Pi Embedded Projects Hotshot

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781849696227
Pages 250 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Raspberry Pi Mechatronics Projects HOTSHOT
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
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Preface
Hello World A Raspberry WebIDE Example The Arduino Raspberry Pi Interface Christmas Light Sequencer Internet of Things Example – An E-mail Alert Water Fountain Raspberry Pi as a Personal Assistant Raspberry Pi-based Line Following Robot Connect Four Desktop Game using Raspberry Pi The Raspberry Pi-enabled Pet/Wildlife Monitor Raspberry Pi Personal Health Monitor Home Automation using Raspberry Pi Using a Raspberry Pi for Science and Education Tips and Tricks Index

Problems that might be encountered while using Raspberry Pi


The following are some problems we encountered while we worked on Raspberry Pi.

SD card corruption

We encountered SD card corruptions while working with Raspberry Pi. In some cases, we had to discard the SD card but in other cases, we were able to recover the SD card using Advanced Partition Scanner Wizard and re-image the SD card.

Sometimes the failure occurs because there is a power failure while the card is still being written to. Such failures are unavoidable over the life of your projects. Here are a few ways to avoid SD card corruption:

  • Power down your Pi properly after use

  • Charge your battery packs and make sure Pi has a constant power supply at all times

Be sure to buy good quality SD cards and as with everything else digital, have backups.

Power issues

We encountered issues related to the power draw of Raspberry Pi. We had little success with things such as a battery pack (we were able to get it working using a 2700 mAh battery...

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