Getting started with the Explorer Hat Pro (problems)
Hi folks, I have a Raspberry Pi 3 along with an Explorer Hat Pro. I've run the tutorials, including the analog tutorial; as I was running the tutorial, I noticed that the values read from analog input...
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I am a raspberry pi noob and know no linux. I got everything to work on an 8 GB sd card. Retropie is running and my mame games are working great. The problem is I have a large collection of roms and...
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Update 1. Complete ID-10-T error on my part. The pot has three leads. Pin 1 needs to be hooked up to 5V. Pin 2 needs 2 be hooked up to Analog Input 1. Pin 3 needs to be hooked up to ground. As I...
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Update 2. Read more. Found that the outputs can sink but don't source 5V. Electrical Engineering not being my background, I googled a little more and found an example of using Outputs that helped put...
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New 2.x Configurable Keyboard/Gamepad Firmware
T1nue: Basically, "!digitalRead(HEADPHONE_DETECT)" always reads true, no matter whether or not a headphone is connected. This definitely shouldn't be the case. I haven't been able to replicate this...
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Thank you for posting updates to your original post, it's a great insight about how you ran into and solved problems and may help us come up with some better documentation to explain these things from...
View ArticleNew 2.x Configurable Keyboard/Gamepad Firmware
After I added the pull-up, I could see the bouncing clearly. Before there was nothing at all when I connected/disconnected the headphone, no matter how quickly or slowly I fiddled with the headphone...
View ArticleDebugging python code for explorer hat
Your use of while True basically means your light pattern will repeat forever once triggered, and the code will never reach the next if statement. A while loop means you're telling the interpreter to...
View ArticleLogic level converter - Question
Hi folks, I'm looking for some help with the following component https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/adafruit-4-channel-i2c-safe-bi-directional-logic-level-converter I was looking to use with a teensy...
View ArticleNew support dude on board!
Hi people, I'm Matt, I'm looking after the whole customer support/experience side of things now (after looking after the shop orders/dispatching for the past year) and just wanted to say hi, give me a...
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thanks very much for the detailed explanation (it helped me understand the code a lot!) just one problem which is probably just a stupid thing I am doing wrong when I run the code in either python 2...
View ArticleDebugging python code for explorer hat
Sorry I think that should be: if pattern == 11 = sets a value to a variable, whereas == checks for equality.
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thanks so much your the best phil. you have been so helpfull
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Capacitive touch hat not working always
Hi, Sorry for the late response but I didn't know I had to manually check for replies. Probably some setting! Anyway, I bribed a friend to solder the 40 pin header to the Capacitive Touch HAT and it...
View ArticleLogic level converter - Question
Hello there, I'm sorry but this cannot work. As it says on the product page of the Level shifter:"Works down to 1.8V on the low side, up to 10V on the high side" so low side at teensy (3.3V) should do...
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Sorry, I should have been clearer. The LEDs use 12V to drive the LEDs, but the actual data pin expects 5v This is why I was trying to step up the 3.3V logic of the teensy to the full 5V Do I have the...
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P.s they work at lower voltages as they have a voltage regulator, but they can't go to full brightness
View ArticleQuestion about new pi 3 & sd card booting
hi, i just recently got a pi3 which im using as game emulater, now i know nothing about raspberry pi's as totally new to them , so today i dropped my pi 3 and now power light is on but im getting no...
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Logic level converter - Question
netmindz: Sorry, I should have been clearer. The LEDs use 12V to drive the LEDs, but the actual data pin expects 5v I think you'll find the data pin expects 0.7VDD, which would be 8.4v, which may be...
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As long as your Pi 3 booted from that SD card before, and as long as the SD card isn't somehow damaged from the fall ( have you verified that the SD card is not corrupt, because that can cause the...
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