Using BlinkStick with Raspberry Pi | Linux Today

Using BlinkStick with Raspberry Pi

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Dmitri Popov
Jun 20, 2013

Hooking up LEDs to Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins and controlling them using Python scripts is a great and fun way to learn the ropes. For more advanced projects, you might want to consider investing in BlinkStick, an open source USB LED kit that works with Raspberry Pi, or any other machine for that matter.

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Dmitri Popov

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