Question: Shouldn't board pin 6 be shown as ground, tx on board pin 8 (GPIO-14) and rx as board pin 9 (GPIO-15)? Am I missing something?

I've been doing this since 1979 and I always get a sense of satisfaction seeing the LED come on and go off.

Thanks for the shoutout to the ladies. Love your videos. Super helpful. Thank you for making them!

Paul, I've rewatched the beginning lessons and up to this point just so I am not missing anything. You are a great explainer.

Following along with the Pi 5 has been smooth sailing up until this video, where RPi.GPIO can no longer be used unfortunately. I will try to follow using gpiod, but it seems more complicated. With that aside, tutorials have been really great so far! EDIT: I noticed the Raspberry Pi documentation recommends using "gpiozero", though it works much differently than "RPi.GPIO" using device objects rather than controlling the pins directly which I'm not a fan of. On the other hand, "gpiod" seems more complicated and above all, has very little documentation (atleast of what I could find). For anyone looking for a library like RPi.GPIO, I definitely recommend "lgpio" which behaves very similarly. The biggest difference it seems is the chip select, but this is because of Pi 5's new structure. This is very easy to use, just by selecting chip "4" (use "chip = lgpio.gpiochip_open(4)" ). Then, follow the "lgpio python" documentation to use the gpio pins by using the "chip" object as a handle. Hope this helps someone!

Just Received my kit and started following this series. No programming background at all. (outside CNC and robotic programming). I am loving this series, and looking forward to getting all the way through it.... long way to go. I never thought i would be this happy about a blinking light lol!! Awesome! Homework is done, may jump to lesson 5 tomorrow!!

This is so exciting! I'm thankful you started out very simple because I know the homework is pretty basic but it still took a while for me to figure it out. I'm really excited for the rest of this series! Just turning on and off an LED with code is blowing my mind as someone who has only done basic computer coding. Somehow it feels more magical when you're actually affecting things in the real world!

Hello from South Texas! Thanks for the great lesson and video playlist! I recently got a job building weather instrumentation for a university. Most of the instrumentation is done using a Raspberry Pi, and I am just starting out. Just wanted to share my thanks and appreciation for your videos!

Thanks for taking the time to explain the basics for the new guys such as myself😁

Here from the Arduino course's, This was needed and as good as them. Thank you so much!

I’ve learnt more in this one lesson than I have over hours of googling!! Thanks. Great video and delivery

Thank you for the free course I really appreciate your work

You are the best I am a a stem teenager and I really wanted to learn alot of things about robotics and I found all my answers in your videos. Thank you very much

Thank you for all these lessons.

Best coffee tutorial ever! :)

Thank you. You're an inspired person on a mission. Enjoy your work!

This video is incredible. Thank you so much for all your hard work teaching.

You the best, I am sharing this key content to my friends. Greetings from Bolivia.

Hloo Paul this is chandana , i am following all your lessons from starting , i love the way you teach us ......Thank you

Love your content as always. Thank you!

You got another woman watching your vids over here, thanks for all the help!

I'm surprised there are still good men like you in this world, thank you. :)

You are superstar! I feel more confident on using the GPIO now. Thanks.

You are brilliant Sir. I ♡ that your shirt always according to the tutorial. Greetings from Belgium

Thank you so much for this. I do have some programming background but never any hardware. Seeing the LED turn on brought almost a tear to my eye as it reminded of my initial journey in programming. Thank you!!. FYI. folks with a Raspberry pi 5. this instructions wont work. RPi 5 changed some things and code written for previous pis wont work.

Thank you for the website and tutorials

After watching this video twice, I see the advantages of library you used over the GPIO Zero library used in Official Raspberry Pi Beginner's Guide. Also, I've been using VSCode on my Pi400 without difficulty. The breadboard adapter makes for a more Arduino-like experience than attaching wires directly to the Pi.

Excited for the GPIO video !!!

If you type ‘pinout’ without the quotes, on the terminal you get a basic diagram of the actual model of Pi you are using, some basic information about it and a GPIO diagram. The GPIO diagram shows the board PIN numbers power and ground pins and the GPIO numbers but there is no extra information about the use of the GPIO pins i.e. UART, I2C etc

I actually did the sum. I did not fold like a cheap lawn chair. I also have my Ice Coffee for this next video. I appreciate you Paul! I defiantly look up to you.

Hi Paul In the first video for this series, someone corrected you for pronouncing the 'G' in GNOME. I wasn't sure but I was biased towards pronouncing it. Well it turns out that you were right👍(as usual). GNOME is an acronym for “GNU Network Object Model Environment,” and since the 'G' in GNU is pronounced and GNU is the first word in the GNOME acronym, the 'G' in GNOME is also pronounced.

Really cool lesson. Many thanks!!

This guy is amazing!!!

I'm a woman, I love your programs !!

Homework solved!!😁 I even added another user-input about the time delay between 2 blinks. So the blinking is sometimes too slow or too fast, depending upon the user-input. 😀 This is really exciting!!😃 And thank you for mentioning the amazing "time" library of Python.❤

I've learned how to do a Breadboard because of you Paul. Another KZfaq teacher showed me tips to create a breadboard with cobbler. Excellent choice I even recommend it. Cobblers avoid actual Rasp Pi pinouts from getting damaged. I'm just over a year and a half from having this amazing machine It taught me much in such a very short time. Please check out my work. when you have the time... Thanks Paul.......🙂👌👍

I have an obsolete kit from NRI made by fishertechnic. I haven't been able to use since I can no longer run the software A fortran based language geared to the proprietary interface in the kit. Distributed on(5.25" floppies, IBM xt) I would like to use the raspberry pi instead. However this will require running some small 5v motors. I don't want to power the motors from the pi. I need a driver circuit to switch a separate supply to the motors

Thank you so much mister paul.

Thank you Mr. Paul, This is really interesting.

I've ordered the sun founder package and it's supposed to be delivered.

Question: how does the raspberry pi know to output 5 volts?

I've been enjoying these videos, until now. I'm using a Raspberry Pi 5, which doesn't use RPi GPIO. The Pi 5 uses GPIOZero. I'm currently struggling with that! Hopefully I can jump back on these videos, once I figure out what the heck I'm doing with GPIOZERO.

Nice video, thanks :)

Cool stuff, indeed!

Hi Sir, I am very thankful that you are doing this series. I am using Pi5 and at 35:00 i am getting the error as Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in RuntimeError: Cannot determine SOC peripheral base address please help me! Thanks in Advanced

Great videos. Some timestamps would help greatly. If you could also keep the picture of you small rather than large so we can see the content, that would be super.

Hey Paul, I got the RPi 5 and a SunFounder kit but when I try to setup GPIO.OUT I get : "RuntimeError: Cannot determine SOC peripheral base address". My understanding is that the new RPi 5 has a new chip and I cannot use the GPIO library so can't follow your lessons. I have been able to interact with the LED through GPIOD however I don't believe I can follow your lessons as it's very different code lines. What is the best way to follow the lessons? would a cheap Pico be able to use the GPIO library? I can't justify buying an older RPi 4 now as gpio library has been deprecated.

Is it possible to write in others instead of Phython?

It wasn't easy but I AM LEGEND!

Wonderful, thanks very much. Can't wait to learn more in the next videos. §8-) Have a happy day. 🌞

Hello! Nice lesson Paul, I understood everything. 🎉But as I wrote in the command: GPIO.setup(11,GPIO.OUT) I got this: RuntimeError: No access to /dev/mem. Try running as root! I tried running the program with sudo python3 and then it worked. Is there another way to solve this problem, because I'm affraid, that if I write a wrong command I could remove the hard/software or something like that.😅

in which simulation we can make above simulation?

Thank you Mr. Paul. RuntimeError: Cannot determine SOC peripeheral base address. Could you please tell me why this error appears though I followed the steps in the video? (this occured after the GPIO.setup(11,GPIO.OUT). I am using Rasppi5. Thank you

The drawing said 5V but didn't you put it to the 3V?

Let us all sing: My LED is on! My LED is on! wow, LOVE to see that my LED turn on!

Hi Mr.McWorter as always thanks for your great videos . unfortunately in my country with my income I cant afford to buy a raspberry pi although I am really interested and full of ideas and so passionate about it. is there any simulator or anything that I can rely on for learning raspberry pi thank you sincerly,

Hi Paul - thanks again for providing these materials, they are much more pleasant than reading dry tutorials! Would you be able to check my computations below? I'm trying to figure out how to select the correct resistor. According to my internet research (probably reliable but who knows): * 3.3 volts is the amounted provided by GPIO pins * 1.8 is the voltage drop for the red/green/yellow LEDs in our kit * 8 milliamps is the default max amperage on a GPIO pin * R = (VS - VD) / I, where R = Resistance, VS=voltage supplied, VD = Voltage Drop, I = current So by my calculation and research, the lowest resistor value meeting the 8 milliamp max should be: R = (3.3 - 1.8) / .008 = 187 ohm I.e., we should have at least a 187 ohm resistor to avoid sending too much current through the pin. Am I correct? Thanks in advance

Hi Paul, I'm running into an issue when I run the line "GPIO.setup(11,GPIO.OUT)" It is giving me an error saying, "RuntimeError: Cannot determine SOC peripheral base address." Do you have any ideas why? Thanks for everything so far, really enjoying your course!

Sir in the GPIO pin out you've shown in the beginning (10:40), you've shown pin 6 as TX. However Google images shows it as Ground for Raspberry Pi 4, Model B. Is this for a different model? Thank you in advance for clarifying. 😊🙏

Hi paul, I just wanted to ask before i buy the kit. Is the raspberry pi included in the kit itself? Or the kit only has components without the raspberry pi. Is the raspberry pi included in the Sunfounder kit? The one you have in the video

Does it matter if I put the resistor on the short leg (cathode) instead of connecting it to the long leg (anode) of the LED?

The circuit diagram shows a 5v battery. Does the command 'GPIO.output(11,True)' set pin 11 at 5V by default? Can we set the voltage at any desired level using the output function?

I have a problem with the code for the first program in this lesson. I get this error after the 3rd line of code is entered and it's not a typo I checked several times... Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in untimeError: Cannot determine sOC peripheral base address >> GPIO.setup(11,GPIO.OUT) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in RuntimeError: Cannot determine SOC peripheral base address Any suggestions?

import time import RPi.GPIO as GPIO GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) red=11 GPIO.setup(red,GPIO.OUT) while true: blink_num=int(input("How Many Blinks? ")) for i in range (0,blink_num): GPIO.output(red,True) time.sleep(.25) GPIO.output(red,False) time.sleep(.25) GPIO.cleanup() Homework Lesson 4

I wish you were my Physics Teacher

Dear Sir please upload early.. Please release today only, lec4 and lec5

Where are the answers to the homework? List of program so I can learn from it?

True turns mine off

I am legend!

no one's been killed with an led YET

sorry, took too long to get into it....:) :)

Homework number 3 for this lesson kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eKpdnMyqy9-tYXk.html Paul suggested you could blink multiple LEDs independently without using threading. I took the challenge.

link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nr2HqNZ31bveqoU.html for the homework. This was fun..had to keep playing with it.

I'm a gal

How's your church plant going??

ok, my fist 10 minutes done. Will return later for the next 10 minutes..

boom

This is my Homework link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Y8-nirqU2M-WaIk.html

Lesson 4 uploaded: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eNmGYK2LsraWaZ8.html

Thank you for the lesson! Starting series on Raspberry Pi as well. So here is my homework solution for this one: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/sJt6atqAvL--eKs.html

Hello Paul. thank you for another exciting and challenging lesson. Here is my homework assignment... please forgive the untidy desk...thankful to have found the SunFounder Kit and though the kit.. I found YOU. God bless you, Brother Paul. oh.. here is the link to my homework video kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jr6ddLGG37GaoZs.html

Thanks for the great lesson - I have been traveling in my RV lately so I am a bit behind in the lessons. Trying to catch up while I still have internet. Here is my homework video: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nsifiLFlyp6lpGQ.html

Thank you for this series, really enjoying it. My homework is here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/esdlf61yrtzUZWw.html

Not working for GPIO.setup(11,GPIO.OUT)

can you help me please , I can not understand this error and how Can I solve it ?? pi@raspberrypi:~ $ python3 Python 3.11.2 (main, May 2 2024, 11:59:08) [GCC 12.2.0] on linux Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import RPi.GPIO as GPIO >>> GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BOARD) >>> GPIO.setup(11,GPIO.OUT) Traceback (most recent call last): File "", line 1, in RuntimeError: Cannot determine SOC peripheral base address

my homework submission: drive.google.com/file/d/157jwlQiHmHkj4bUsIvJZOopQ19Hsg-GT/view?usp=sharing