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Raspberry Pi MCP3008 Python Library with TonyD! @adafruit LIVE

Live stream originally on http://twitch.tv/adafruit working on a Python library for the MCP3008 analog to digital converter with the Raspberry Pi. Discusses the structure of python libraries, how to talk to SPI devices, and details on publishing a library to the Python package index.  

Raspberry Pi & Python I2C Deep Dive with TonyD! @adafruit LIVE

Raspberry Pi & Python SPI Deep Dive with TonyD! @adafruit LIVE!

Raspberry Pi & Bluetooth LE part 1 with Tony D! @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit introducing Bluetooth Low Energy and how to compile and use bluez on the Raspberry Pi. Part 1 in a multiple part series diving into BLE & Raspberry Pi.  

Raspberry Pi & Python OpenGL Fun with Tony D! @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit celebrating the 1st/4th anniversary of the Raspberry Pi by playing with its latest OpenGL hardware rendering driver. Deep dive into simple OpenGL fixed functionality pipeline programming with Python. There will be (animated) cake!  

Raspberry Pi 3 & Bluetooth LE pt. 2 with Tony D! @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream from http://twitch.tv/adafruit diving into Bluetooth Low Energy on the new Raspberry Pi 3. Demonstrates interacting with a BLE UART device from the noble node.js BLE library.  

Raspberry Pi 3 Emulator Testing with Tony D! #gaming #retro @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit testing the performance of various video game system emulators on the new Raspberry Pi 3. The latest 3.6 version of Retropie is used to run the emulators  

Raspberry Pi & Bluetooth LE pt. 3 with Tony D! @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream from http://twitch.tv/adafruit as the third part in a series on Bluetooth Low Energy and the Raspberry Pi. Demonstrates creating a custom BLE service on a Feather M0 Bluefruit board and then reading data from it over BLE with a Raspberry Pi 3 & Python code.  

Raspberry Pi 3 & OSMC media center with Tony D! @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit showing the OSMC open source media player (http://osmc.tv) project running on a Raspberry Pi 3. Demonstrates playing DVD .iso file rips and even Blu-Ray H.264 file rips perfectly on the Pi 3!  

Circuit Playground Firmata & Python with Tony D! @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit of extending the Circuit Playground firmata library to set the accelerometer range.  

Raspberry Pi & Python Internet ‘Thing’ pt. 1 with Tony D! @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit showing part 1 of a series on building an internet ‘thing’ with the Raspberry Pi. Dives into creating a simple Python flask web application to turn on/off a LED and read a switch.  

Raspberry Pi 3 and netconnectd with Tony D! @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit showing how to setup netconnectd (https://github.com/foosel/netconnectd) to turn a Raspberry Pi 3 into an internet thing ‘appliance’ that can host its own WiFi network for easy configuration.  

Raspberry Pi & Python Internet ‘Thing’ pt. 2 with Tony D! @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit with part 2 of the Raspberry Pi internet ‘thing’ project. This video looks at making a nicer looking webpage with Bootstrap, and how to receive realtime updates from the switch using HTML5 server sent events.  

Building Trellis scene switcher for Wirecast with Tony D! @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit of building a Trellis-based box to switch scenes in Wirecast. Good example of using an Arduino Leonardo (ATmega32u4) to send keyboard presses and control a program on the computer.  

Raspberry Pi Zero & Amazon Alexa demo with Tony D! @adafruit #LIVE

Raspberry Pi & Python Internet ‘Thing’ Pt. 3 with Tony D! @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit showing part 3 of the Raspberry Pi & Python Internet ‘Thing’ series. In this episode we add a DHT temperature & humidity sensor to the Pi and have it dynamically render its data in a chart on the webpage.  

Happy Arduino Day! Build a breadboard Arduino with Tony D! @arduino @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit of building (and troubleshooting) a breadboard Arduino for Arduino Day! Note: One of the cameras died during the stream and there’s a little bit of lost audio for a few minutes. After ~2 minutes audio is back and good for the stream.  

Using AlexaPi on Raspberry Pi Zero with Tony D! @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit showing the AlexaPi tool (https://github.com/sammachin/AlexaPi) to turn a Raspberry Pi Zero into an Amazon Echo-like device. Ask the Pi questions and Amazon’s Alexa voice service will respond with answers!  

Raspberry Pi & Python Internet ‘Thing’ pt. 4 with Tony D! @adafruit #LIVE

Live stream to http://twitch.tv/adafruit with the thrilling conclusion of the Pi internet ‘thing’ series! In this video we use Socket IO to do real time updates from the server to the web page and vice-versa.