It is only of card-size and costs about 35 EURO but the Raspberry Pi is a fully functional PC with astonishing capabilities. It runs under LINUX and can be enhanced by many different, low-priced modules. All I/Os of the minicomputer can be addressed with the BORIS driver package and can be used for different measurement and control tasks. The communication is established via LAN or WLAN (UDP).
The current driver version supports the following components:
Each driver package contains the corresponding user-DLL for BORIS, the Python script for the Raspberry Pi as well as the source codes (Delphi 6). The driver package can be downloaded free of charge from the download area of our website.
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