Pimoroni 7" Touchscreen Flashing Test Pattern
I might be barking the wrong tree but it looks like the Pi is going through a perpetual power cycle loop in your vid. What is the LED activity on the board like when this is occurring? ... Try with...
View ArticleHow to share projects using your products with you and others?
Depending on complexity of the project, these forums are a good place to start (project section). Alternatively, you could create an instructable and post the link here and on Twitter, no doubt it...
View ArticleFlotilla project seems to have stalled
Received the Treasure Chest in January - and some five months later we are still waiting for the software and the cookbooks. I understand the nature of Kickstarter - and that I have invested in...
View ArticleFlotilla project seems to have stalled
Nick A, Agree with the sentiment completely. My son was so excited to get moving, but he can't do it without a lot of help as the cookbooks aren't there.Its now never even looked at and I had great...
View ArticleHow to share projects using your products with you and others?
OK, I will post pictures and a description in the project forum, and see where it goes from there. I would love to make a tutorial, but I feel that Instructables is possibly a little too wide-ranged...
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Flotilla project seems to have stalled
Right now @sandyjmacdonald is churning out the documentation for the kits and Cookbook recipes, @guru is making some graphical tweaks to ShipShape and @roguem and I are figuring out how to roll out...
View ArticleUse Propeller Hat with johnny-five
I don't believe there's a Firmata build for the Parallax Propeller, so you'd have to start by writing one. Firmata is the firmware that runs on Arduino boards to give johnny-five control over their...
View ArticleUse Propeller Hat with johnny-five
I was afraid I'd get that answer. I'm a bit disappointed that there is no real support for nodejs and Python, and you can only use some proprietary language. Anyway, I've got a GROVEPI now and it does...
View ArticleHowto: get PHAT DAC to play all system sound + software volume control
Ok if anyone is interested this seemed to work on a fresh updated SD sudo nano /boot/config edit bottom to look like this this: # Enable audio (loads snd_bcm2835) #dtparam=audio=on dtoverlay=i2s-mmap...
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Picade Artwork
Many Thanks Connor, I got your Pacman design printed by an Ebay vendor 'swiftprintuk' for £5.74 on A3, cut it out and fitted it to my picade - looks great, even if I do say so myself. Here's what it...
View ArticleHowto: get PHAT DAC to play all system sound + software volume control
This /etc/asound.conf looks to make alsamixer have a software volume control + mpd volume works: # the sound card pcm.real { type hw card 0 device 0 } #support the ipc stuff is needed for permissions,...
View ArticleTips needed to speed up Pimoroni I2C display
I bought this display: https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/i2c-graphical-lcd-128x64 It is a nice display to use, but is a little slow. Is there any way to speed it up? My test code is below. To take...
View ArticleTips needed to speed up Pimoroni I2C display
For whatever reason when I included my test code, the include LCD library command in the first line has been automatically changed. The test code works fine in the unchanged state. Maybe I should also...
View ArticleTips needed to speed up Pimoroni I2C display
As a guess, just before you do the test you set the font code. Check the datasheet that this is not causing the println to stall before it does it's work. A simple test would be to wait a second...
View ArticleFlotilla project seems to have stalled
Looks awesome, I'm delighted its moving forward behind the scenes. Will have to dust it off soon I hope. Any ETA?
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Pi Zero 1.3 kit appears to contain old style Pibow case
We've now added an exploded diagram, that shows how all of the Pibow Zero layers fit together, to the product page on our shop. Here it is again, should you need it. We'll try to put together a quick...
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Pibow zero instructions
We've now added an exploded diagram, that shows how all of the Pibow Zero layers fit together, to the product page on our shop. Here it is again, should you need it. We'll try to put together a quick...
View ArticlePimoroni 7" Touchscreen Flashing Test Pattern
Rogue,I can't believe it, but it is suddenly working. I disconnected the ribbon to compare the LED patterns and then reconnected it and suddenly its working. Amazing. You have a Midas touch.I suspect...
View ArticlePurchase advice - Finding a case
I already own a RPi 3 and an IQAudio PiDAC+, and I'd like to get a display for the Pi, probably a Raspberry Pi 7" Touchscreen with stand I'm looking at getting a Pibow Audio case to mount the whole...
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