Use this tag for questions about how to use the device safely, and how to keep the device safe from other dangers.
Questions tagged [safety]
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Can I break my Pi in a way that can't be fixed with a new SD card?
Aside from physical damage (treading on it), is there anything that I could do to the Pi that could irreversibly damage it?
More specifically, will anything I can do with code, or by prematurely taking out the SD card (I know this can corrupt the…
Tom Medley
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Is Raspberry Pi resistant to nuclear radiation?
I've had this wacky idea to turn my Raspberry Pi into an autonomous Geiger counter that would log the decay rate at various high-radiation sites such as Chernobyl Exclusion Zone or the surroundings of various power plants.
I would like to know if…
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Safely using GPIO pins of Raspberry Pico?
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While I was trying to use
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
on a Raspberry Pico, I was experiencing some difficulties. I had successfully installed the RPi.GPIO package manually in Thonny by clicking: Tools>Manage Plug-ins>Search…
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