Can we install flotilla on Wheezy rather than Jessie?
Brilliant - thanks for your help PS worked perfectly - plugged it all in and within 5 minutes was detecting colour and showing the output via rainbow. Great stuff.
View ArticleRockpool animation... backwards?!
It's a really tricky one. If the values move from left-to-right then it gives the illusion that they take time to get from A to B when in fact the value you would be seeing on the left is what has...
View ArticleMatrix Brightness - no effect?
Good spot. I can find two bugs with the Matrix- one in the firmware, which doesn't observe the number of arguments its given leading to potentially undefined behaviour and all sorts of fun, and one in...
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Looks like not all Arduino Unos are created the same - will my 3d party Uno...
Sure, here are a couple of snaps. Let me know if you need close ups or other views IMG_1837-1.JPG2592x1936 1.48 MB IMG_1836.JPG2592x1936 1.43 MB
View ArticleAnyone know if the M2 Standoff works with Pibow?
I'm using a HAT (Capacitive Touch), I've soldered the header to the HAT but the connection seems to only be strong when I press down / attach the HAT using standoffs. I've been struggling to find...
View ArticleLooks like not all Arduino Unos are created the same - will my 3d party Uno...
I think your battery clips are the wrong way round!
View ArticleAnyone know if the M2 Standoff works with Pibow?
Could we get a photo of your soldered HAT please? The connection should be rock solid!
View ArticleRockpool animation... backwards?!
I've been playing with it the last few days and it never occurred to me. I guess it looks like an oscilloscope trace, so it's the "right way round" from that perspective.
View ArticleLooks like not all Arduino Unos are created the same - will my 3d party Uno...
You mean positive is where negative should be? That'd be an easy fix... we'll try it!
View ArticleTwitter #hashtag to scroll pHAT
hi sandy, thanks a lot you've really helped a lot and everything seems to be working great although it seems my code is casuing it to loop the same tweet continually and it doesnt step onto the next...
View ArticleLooks like not all Arduino Unos are created the same - will my 3d party Uno...
Fantastic, switched the battery clips and we now have lights! Blinking green light and steady red on arduino and red light on slow blink on the gamer. Troubleshooting says that means no games...
View ArticleSaving and sharing projects
Ahoy I am very hapy about my mega treasur pack and had made some experiments. But i havn't found out how to save my rockwell projects or to deploy my projects to flotilla without running a pi. There...
View ArticleLooks like not all Arduino Unos are created the same - will my 3d party Uno...
At this point you'll need to contact Tech Will Save Us (https://www.techwillsaveus.com/) I think - they know the product much better than we do! :-)
View ArticleScroll pHAT - IO error
hiya, i get them every now and then. its doesnt seem to be causing a problem?
View ArticleScroll pHAT - IO error
I've now squelched them out of the library, however if more than 10 IO errors occur it will pop up a little message saying so. I didn't get any while holding the board against a pin header manually (...
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Saving and sharing projects
squ: Will there be a platform to share projects? I suspect that will be possible in one form or another... I know @gadgetoid is very keen to provide save and load functionality and sharing them will...
View ArticleSaving and sharing projects
We're currently working on a new update to Flotilla/Rockpool, code-named ShipShape. It's a complete overhaul to speed it up, add a bit of polish and get everything working properly. Being able to save...
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Scroll pHAT - IO error
ok many thanks, ive install the latest now. maybe the soldering is the problem, ill have to get another zero and scrollPhat to verify that! for now it seems im not getting anymore IO errors! heres my...
View ArticleTwitter #hashtag to scroll pHAT
this allows for the while loop to be jumped out of and the tweets now cycle...try this.. while status_length >= 0: scrollphat.scroll() time.sleep(0.1) status_length -= 1 #print status_length for...
View ArticleTwitter #hashtag to scroll pHAT
import time import tweepy import scrollphat scrollphat.set_brightness(2) class MyStreamListener(tweepy.StreamListener): def on_status(self, status): if not status.text.startswith('RT'):...
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