

And even if you could, you would have saved yourself the effort by using these instead. They’re good and all, but you’ll have a hard time simulating GPIO pins with them. So no VMWare Workstation, DOSBox, Hyper-V, nor VirtualBox. Just for this article, we won’t talk about virtual machines. You can also see the whole thing work (disregarding electromagnetic forces that could ruin things for you).

Or it could be serious, like a relay wired the wrong way around.īut with an emulator, you won’t just be looking at a piece of paper. This could be as simple as a missing LED.

When you’re planning for a Raspberry Pi-based system that takes a ton of inputs and outputs, you’ll definitely want to put it all down on paper or you’ll forget some important details. And it’s a great tool to help plan for large projects without the risk of breaking your own during experiments.
