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Explorer hat pro with Adafruit OLED

Hello all,I hit a bit of a wall getting the Explorer Hat pro and the 0.96" Adafruit OLED playing together. The OLED works fine when attached to the Pi itself and The Raspberry Pi Guys examples run....

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Unicorn Hat on Raspbian Jessie

And when you've seen enough blinky rainbows, how do you stop the Unicorn Hat? Ending the .py just freezes the coloured lights, how do you get them all to go off. If possible, I'd rather not shut-down...

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Something to add to Breadboard Base for Pibow?

I think rubber feet are already included.Little square black ones. Connor

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Official 7" Raspberry Pi Touch Screen FAQ

PaulWebster: any progress on adaptation of the case for screen reversal? For the time being we've decided to leave it as it is because it makes the ports ( including the connections for power ), which...

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Error in python with explorer hat pro

I installed exporerhat on a clean installed Jessie (update/upgrade done). When I launch python or python3, after a while I get this message (a script running or not). Press CTRL+C to exit.* Explorer...

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Something to add to Breadboard Base for Pibow?

I must have missed out, or I dropped them in opening the packet. Not a issue as I have my own feet. :)

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Adafruit Feather Bluefruit LE. When?

They just released these, when do you think you'll have them in stock? A few months about I made the guggen hat and since they announced this product will be coming I've been waiting to do an upgrade....

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Adafruit Feather Bluefruit LE. When?

Hola! They are in our next shipment so I'd expect them in stock first thing next week. :-)

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Questions about Picade Console

Just a followup on this, after a couple days playing with the console, I don't think it is really an issue -- or at least the problem is so small I really couldn't get a good picture to demonstrate...

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Explorer hat pro with Adafruit OLED

try to invert the connections as follows:Rst -> RXDC - TX ... pretty sure that will do the trick (it's a labelling issue on the Explorer, or not, depending on your point of view).

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Unicorn Hat on Raspbian Jessie

open an interactive shell then: >>> import unicornhat >>> unicornhat.off()

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Adafruit USB Power Gauge Mini-Kit rocks!

I just tried out my new Adafruit USB Power Gauge Mini-Kit, and it's fantastic. I'm building a project for which battery life will be critical, and I needed a quick way of measuring peak power usage....

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Adafruit USB Power Gauge Mini-Kit rocks!

I like the option for inline assembly, I'd not seen that before! I'm basically chief executive of splicing USB cables into interesting new configurations, so I've probably already got bits of cable...

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Error in python with explorer hat pro

This is Python crashing out when it fails to talk to the Cap Touch chip on Explorer HAT. It could be a flaky electrical connection between the Pi and HAT, or possible the chip itself misbehaving, or...

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Explorer hat pro with Adafruit OLED

Solved! Working perfectly now, thanks very much for your help.

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Error in python with explorer hat pro

Thanks for responding. I was thinking in that direction. I tried with another PI2.Same problem, so is should not be the Pi. I have a second Explorerhat pro.I'll try that one with both Pi's this...

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Error in python with explorer hat pro

Ok, I did some testing. The second HAT is stable on both Pi's. I re-installed the problematic one... crashed within 2 minutes.So it definitely is the HAT that is defective. The thing was ordered...

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Built picade, but is my PCB faulty?

FYI: I had the same issue with the provided USB cable. I've replaced the cable with my own and it started to work fine.

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Introduce yourself!

HiI am GregI did a degree in electronics back in 1978, working as an electronics engineer until 1990 when I unfortunatley went in to management.I have recently retired and am looking to get back on to...

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Official 7" Raspberry Pi Touch Screen FAQ

one-liner to rotate screen for the lazy among us: echo "lcd_rotate=2" | sudo tee -a /boot/config.txt (may not work on Wheezy, which seems sensitive to where the line is inserted in /boot/config.txt)

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