I kinda figured out a lot of what you said on my own but I know this will help someone else starting out who finds this. It would've helped me. Did pick up a few good tips and confirmations. Thanks for this video. ❤
I'm a bit surprised that the Raspberry Pi manufactures made it possible to connect the ribbon incorrectly even though the ribbon connector has the key notch. But anyway, this was good info. For those of you who care, and I know THAT includes ALL of you ;) : notice that the ribbon has a red wire or stripe at one end (sometimes a different color) , THAT is pin #1 of the connector and is important to know...
Good point but not all ribbons have this red stripe or they may be entirely rainbow-coloured. It is also possible to make the connection backwards on both ends and it will work, but the red stripe will be pin #40 then.
I assume that you are referring to reversing the ribbon on one side. This by itself will not damage the Pi until you build your circuit. Generally, damage occurs when 3.3V (or a GPIO port set to OUT mode) is shorted to GND, or if you short GND with 3.3V straight up. Also, you can cause damage by connecting 5V to any other pins.
I’m just looking for a simple tutorial where you talk about connecting jumper wires in the first place. I’m trying to get my 12 year old daughter into coding and programming. We keep buying extra stuff because we don’t have what we need. Yikes !
Have a look at this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7NzbZaX5MAA.html I demonstrate there how to connect LEDs to Raspberry Pi GPIO. As far as electronics components go, I recommend Freenove kits on Amazon.
