BabyCam IR LEDS 5V

I'm unfamiliar with rasberry pi- so this is an external circuit that you need to build yourself?..

Yes, this is an external circuit I need to build myself. The switches represent the GPIO Pins on the Linux based Raspberry Pi that can be set high or low

All looking good. Are you using Python to control the GPIO pins? Would be useful if you could post the code too.

Thanks for the feedback! I haven't decided yet how to control the GPIO Pins. Python is an option but It could as well be just bash or node. I'll post the code when it fits usability.

I sorry I don't get it ?

The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized Linux based computer that retails for around $30. It has 30 GPIO pins and these can be used to switch power to a circuit. Using the Python programming language which is built into the Raspberry Pi operating system you can output Hi/Lo signal to and external circuit. When you connect the Raspberry Pi to the Internet you can access it remotely from another computer using Secure Shell. This basically means that the circuit that sdevoogt has built shows the 3.3v and 5v power supply from the Raspberry Pi and the switches represent the connected GPIO pins. He could control the action of the circuit by running a remote script. I have a YouTube video on this subject http://youtu.be/jRdDx27rApA and a full series on Raspberry Pi. Hope this helps.

As the Raspberry Pi is not capable of delivering the amount of current needed for this circuit (450mA), the 5V will be provided by an external power supply of 2A. This power supply will also power the Raspberry Pi. So the Raspberry Pi wil only have to deliver a small amount of current over its 3.3V GPIO pins to control the transistors which in their turn control the LEDS on the 5V rail.

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