Official 7" Raspberry Pi Touch Screen FAQ
Really enjoying our new screen which was a xmas present! Working well except I'm not clear if it has sound / speaker - and if so, how you activate the speakers. If it doesn't, is there a way to use...
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Hi Paul! The official touchscreen display does not have speakers. You'd need to connect something up to your Raspberry Pis audio output!
View ArticleTwitter #hashtag to scroll pHAT
cant quite crack it yet, but something is up with scrollphat.buffer_len() the length seems to never fall!
View ArticleTwitter #hashtag to scroll pHAT
It's behaving as it should. The scrollphat.buffer_len() will remain the same until you call scrollphat.write_string() again. That's why we have the status_length variable that we decrement by 1 on...
View ArticleMega Chest Content?
I got the mega treasure chest too and I thought there were things missing but now I know why, thanks. Will we get all these things later?
View ArticleTwitter #hashtag to scroll pHAT
hi sandy, yeh ive updated the library. thanks for checking :) import sys import time import tweepy import scrollphat scrollphat.clear() while True: try: scrollphat.set_brightness(2) class...
View ArticleRobot!
After building the robot Update 47 a few nights ago we've now mastered on getting our little beauty to follow a line - which is very exciting!Why is the matrix attached though? We've had the alphabet...
View ArticleTwitter #hashtag to scroll pHAT
The reason that status_length isn't decreasing is because it isn't inside the while loop! That's where it gets decremented so, to see it change, you need the print status_length inside the while loop....
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Twitter #hashtag to scroll pHAT
Mr-G: while status_length > 0: #print 'status length',status_length #print 'buffer_len',scrollphat.buffer_len() scrollphat.scroll() time.sleep(0.06) status_length -= 1 status_length is here at the...
View ArticleI've built the worlds slowest light avoiding robot
I think I'm going to need the coding part of the robot build video! When is it due out?
View ArticleTesting Mac software
yup, feel free to check where it's at by downloading the 'pre'(release) from:https://github.com/pimoroni/flotilla-pre It's been tested on 10.9 to 10.11 but I reckon it should work on 10.7 and 10.8 (so...
View ArticleCan't get flotilla to work and no cookbooks
Check out the Getting Started Guide to make sure you are clear on what the different parts that make flotilla are here: forums.pimoroni.com Flotilla - Unofficial getting started guide Could be the...
View ArticleTwitter #hashtag to scroll pHAT
I think the problem is that the buffer isn't cleared after each call to scrollphat.write_string(). I'm hoping that a scrollphat.clear() at the end of the scroll_tweet function will sort it out. That...
View ArticleTesting Mac software
Fantastic - thanks very much. Firmware updated ('dfu-programmer: no device present.' errors but updated fine) and I'm happily tinkering with Rockpool (on 10.11.2). Will give more feedback as I have...
View ArticleTesting Mac software
The script may state the firmware has been flashed, but if you received a note saying no device was present then it may not have performed the firmware update at all (the script could admittedly be...
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Testing Mac software
Ah OK, how do I check firmware version / what should I be expecting if the firmware didn't update successfully? I'm connecting to it fine via Rockpool and at I've just had a little play with the...
View ArticleHandling Time
What is the best way of handling time with Flotilla? I see the time 'pattern' in Rockpool but I can't quite figure out how it's supposed to be used... Let's say I want to change the colour of the...
View ArticleFlotilla Colour cannot see all three color components
I finally broke out my new Flotilla hardware and have been playing with Rockpool on my RaspPi 2 running Wheezy. My Colour sensor doesn't show output on all three channels (R/G/B) at the same time, at...
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