Building pigpio for Raspberry Pi OS “trixie”

The pigpio library for GPIO control supports hardware timing for PWM and servo outputs, which provides much more accurate and jitter-free control. It can be used from gpiozero by setting the pin factory.

However, for some reason, pigpio is not included in the latest version (“trixie”) of Raspberry Pi OS. This post summarizes how to build it from source.

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Airtable for project planning

A while ago, I found myself with more work than usual, for several different clients. There were about a dozen projects to finish in a few weeks and I was beginning to lose track of where I was with all of them. I looked around at various tools that would help keep on top of all this. Most were too complex for my needs, and very few were free (or nearly free). In the end, I found one I am really happy with.

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