Raspberry Pi GPIO Switch Input - Part 2: Making the Connections

This is a quick walk-through of connecting physical switches to the GPIO header of the Raspberry Pi. It assumes we will be using the internal pull-up resistors available on the Pi's Broadcom SOC.

Items referred to during the video:
• A 5 channel rocker joystick with buttons similar to the one used in the video can be found by searching on, "five direction rocker joystick with keyboard."
• Female-to-female breadboard jumper wires similar to those used in the video can be found by searching on, "female/female jumper wires." Be sure you are getting the ones with sockets on both ends and not pins.

Takeaways: At the completion of this lesson, each student should be able to safely connect a switch circuit to the pins of the Raspberry Pi GPIO header.

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