Skywriter + Pi3
Another followup… Received my own Skywriter HAT (since it was in the mail, borrowed somebody else’s to prepare for a workshop). It looks like things are working properly “out of the box” (or...
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How can I re-flash the firmware? I'd like to get the HAT I bought working.
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pHAT DAC "no soundcards found"
No luck. Here's a photo of the DAC and the Pi. Not sure if there's enough solder on there or not. IMG_2650.JPG2448x3264 2.79 MB IMG_2651.JPG2448x3264 2.43 MB
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Well now I feel dumb. :P Got it working. Solder's all fine (spent a while with http://wiringpi.com/ to verify that. Turns out that I needed to run the script from...
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hum, that's strange, it shouldn't be necessary... is your 'lucy' user not part of the sudo group then? Either way, the configs you posted seemed fine.
View ArticleExplorer pHAT for Raspberry Pi Zero - Would work with the sensor: BMP180
Hi Guys, I am new to electronics so I have a question for a future project I want to do.Here what I intend to do:- Use a raspberry pi zero to build my own weather station- I wish to buy pHat explorer...
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Are you sure? 20mA per LED colour gives me 60mA per LED. 64x60mA equals more than 3.6A
View ArticleExplorer pHAT for Raspberry Pi Zero - Would work with the sensor: BMP180
The BMP180 is an i2c-ready sensor, so you don't need an Explorer pHAT to interface with it, you can communicate with it directly from the Pi, using Python. See the Adafruit tutorial...
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Yes, I'm sure... you don't want to run the LEDs full beam. In fact the last soul who tried that ended up with a bunch of components desoldering themselves from the board ;-)
View ArticlepHAT DAC "no soundcards found"
Yeah, likely I've got the user set up wrong. Something I'll figure out later if I have the time. For now it does what I needed it to :)
View ArticleScrollphat not working anymore/
Hi. I had scrollphat working nicely on a pi zero. I used the sd card for something else and have now put another one in and installed VERSION="8 (jessie)". i have done apt-get update and upgrade and...
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Thx a lot for help. All the bestAlex
View ArticleWhat improvement could be done on the Picade
Having fun tinkering with my picade - I replaced the artwork and put a light behind the marquee, and an additional blanking panel to stop it shining down on the screen, I also fitted a powered USB hub...
View ArticleSkywriter + Pi3
What is it doing, at this point? Do you get “signal” (as in numbers in the console/terminal when trying test.py)?The original HAT I tested was probably DoA, but @gadgetoid is the one who can send you...
View ArticlePowering Skywriter with 5V
Do you have that P5 code handy? Processing newbie, here. Though it’s clear that the IDE supports GPIO, it’s not that clear how things can be set up without the library.
View ArticleScrollphat not working anymore/
How did you install it? git clone and sudo python setup.py install? Can you try curl -sS https://get.pimoroni.com/scrollphat | bashfollowed by a reboot?
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I really think this should be put on the readme- took me hours to figure out why the UH wasn't playing ball...
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It's on the product page, but I agree it's not the best place for it. Regardless I have reworked the installer to route audio to HDMI to try to minimise initial problems.
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I bought two hats and have the same result. if I touch top of the board directly I get x, y , z. I am hoping that there is patch or and update to fix it. If firmware update would fix it would be much...
View ArticleRequest for more detail on the parts provided with the Raspberry Pi Complete...
Hi there! I've just received my Raspberry Pi Zero Complete Starter Kit. I'm definitely a complete starter, so this seemed like the right kit for me. It arrived with everything you said it would (I...
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