Phillip Howard and Gordon Henderson recently announced the availability of WiringPi2 along with a new python wrapper WiringPi2-Python.

OpenXC is a very cool initiative involving Ford Motor Company and Bug Labs aimed at creating an open development ecosystem for interfacing with in-car electronics. Looks like a pretty great project.

Gaugette Time Clock

This build combines a Raspberry Pi with a rotary-encoder, an RGB LED and an OLED character display to create a time clock that logs my time on tasks directly to a Google Docs spreadsheet.

Check out this great new Tindie project launched by The Renaissance Engineer Adam Fabio for a new breakout board designed for Switec motors and clones.

Here’s a quick overview of the rotary encoder I/O class in the py-gaugette library.

The encoder I’m using is a 2-bit quadrature-encoded rotary encoder, available from Adafruit.
The datasheet is here.