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Phat Dac Picade Help
you could split a usb cable so the data lines are coming from the pi to picade, but the power feed comes from a separate power supply. would just involve some soldering, and joining of the respective...
View Article18-Channel 8-bit PWM LED Driver
Hi, I don't suppose you could tell me how to wire this board to the PI? I have been struggling to find any useful info. Thanks in advance Darren.
View ArticleHelp with Pi Pan/Tilt Face tracker
Your wiring to the Pi seems correct, but the servo side has no power supply in your pic. See https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-16-channel-servo-driver-with-raspberry-pi/hooking-it-up which goes into...
View ArticleHelp with Pi Pan/Tilt Face tracker
Thank you, I did wonder what the terminals were for....a small note / instruction with the product would have save so much time. I will try this tonight.
View ArticleHelp with Pi Pan/Tilt Face tracker
Ok, I have a seperate 5V power supply wired as shown in the picture, apart from an initial power on jitter, where the servo's seem to move randomly for a few milliseconds, there is no other activity,...
View ArticlePhat DAC down-mixed to mono audio
Hey guys, I'm trying to use my Phat DAC in a mono speaker setup, as an airplay receiver.I have the Airplay part working great with the Phat DAC, and it sounds great! However, I'm having some problems...
View Article12" Picade Screen
I can confirm : I bought one of these screen on eBay, and Mark from the support sent me a 12" shim. These guys are really great, believe me :)
View ArticleUnicorn pHAT - incompatible with Retropie?
I'm a little rusty on what exactly causes this, so I've dug up my reply from another thread on this topic: I had a support ticket from a guy using Retro Pie with the Unicorn HAT a while ago- it turns...
View ArticleMini Black HAT Hack3r - How to connect 2 HATs?
The Mini Black HAT Hack3r was designed for a pHAT and a HAT or two pHATs, so you're right- there's overlap and the Piano HAT/Drum HAT wont fit together. All mine have gone walkies, but I don't believe...
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Mini Black HAT Hack3r - How to connect 2 HATs?
You could use the larger version but the boards would still overlap slightly, though not a huge deal for those 2 specific HATs. You'd also have to fit a female header in the middle 'lane' though and...
View ArticleHelp with Pi Pan/Tilt Face tracker
I can imagine it's becoming quite frustrating for you. I do have to repeat my advice to try to get something more basic working first though, such as the simpletest.py. Once you've troubleshooted your...
View ArticleUnicorn pHAT - incompatible with Retropie?
brentwomble, you might look at http://forums.pimoroni.com/t/addressing-pixels-of-unicorn-phat-wierdness/2226/5 to see what fun is being had there with the addressing of the 8x4 display. It might just...
View Article18-Channel 8-bit PWM LED Driver
I haven't got one of those, but it should be your typical '2-wire' i2c, meaning clock and data linked up, with common ground, and either power from the Pi or separate supply (2.75-5.5V).
View ArticleUnicorn pHAT - incompatible with Retropie?
The Pi uses PWM for it's audio out through the headphone jack, and the Unicorn HAT/pHAT use PWM for their data, hence the conflicts. @gadgetoid is correct in saying that HDMI audio should resolve the...
View ArticlePhat DAC down-mixed to mono audio
What was the content of asound.conf originally? Did you append to or replace what was there (if anything).
View Article12" Picade Screen
I bought the picade with the 12" screen when they were still in stock. I received both the 8" and 12" screen shim/bezel in the picade box :)
View ArticlePicade 10.1 inch screen shim
Not sure about that. It woukd be pretty easy to make your own 10.1" shim with some black card however....
View ArticleAaaargh! Where be BT035?
Hi, BT035 (5th May) does not appear in the Bilge Tank YouTube Channel :-( When playing BT034 there is a popup link for BT035 "Rombus CT cocktail arcade special". If I click on the link all that is...
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