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Video of "Sugru Dads"
How-To: GPIO on Raspberry Pi
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Video of "Sugru Dads"

Jane and our friends at Sugru sent us this video they put together for Father’s Day, showing how a few dads make use of their self-curing silicone rubber molding material. The video is basically an ad for Sugru, but I’m fascinated by this material and the humble uses to which it can be put. I’m always tickled by how significant a very simple hack or repair can feel — every time you interact with the object, you get a little kick knowing that you were responsible for that clever fix or improvement. Sugru sort of trades on that emotion, as you can see in this video.

We now carry Sugru in the Maker Shed. If you want to get some for your dad, you can get him a gift certificate to the Shed and send him a link to this video. And don’t forget our downloadable maker cards for dad.

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How-To: GPIO on Raspberry Pi

GPIO on Raspberry Pi
If you already have your hands on a Raspberry Pi and are eager to make some LEDs blink and read the status of pushbutton switches, I want to share with you this excellent tutorial by Tedb0t. He shows you the ins and outs (so to speak) of how to use the general purpose input/output (GPIO) pins on a Raspberry Pi board. He covers everything from physically connecting to the GPIO headers to accessing them within Python, Bash, and C. And to those of you who are still anxiously waiting to receive your boards, I know it’s rough, but at least you have some time to bone up on this while you wait.