Raspberry Pi GPIO Tutorial: The Basics Explained

Published: 09 September 2015
on channel: Pi My Life Up

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This Raspberry Pi GIO tutorial takes you through a lot of the basics of the GPIO pins and what you can do with them

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As you may know the general purpose input and output pins (GPIO) are used to communicate with other circuity. This includes thing such as extension boars, circuits, and much more. You can do some pretty cool stuff with them.

You should beware that playing around with the Raspberry Pi GPIO pins wrongly can result in destroying the Pi. The best way to avoid this is to double check that whatever you’re plugging in will be supported by the Pi.

In the little small circuit, I use in the Raspberry Pi GPIO tutorial I use the following equipment.

• 1 100-ohm resistor
• 1x Red LED
• GPIO Breakout Kit Assembled
• Breadboard
• Breadboard Wire/Jumper Cables

There is quite a bit of terminology around these pins but be sure to not let this turn you off from using them. We go into the terminology a little in the video but if you need more information be sure to look up some of the terms I used.

In the video we display a Raspberry Pi GPIO pinout diagram. If you would like this to use for future reference, then be sure head over the guide. You can find the link above.

We will be looking at doing many projects using the GPIO pins in the future. This includes stuff such as home automation! This is something I know a lot of people have been asking about.

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