Can't get flotilla to work and no cookbooks
then you are missing some dependencies. run: curl -sS get.pimoroni.com/rockpool | bash check the output of the script as it may reveal why the required boost library was not correctly installed the...
View ArticleFlotilla and Rockpool on Ubuntu PC without Raspberry Pi
It sounds like you have built the pre-release from source, which is not required on the Pi and probably best recommended only for advanced users since the code in the flotilla-daemon-vs repo is rather...
View ArticleTrinket i2c Neopixel Driver
I trying to use this as well and are unable to get it to compile, with the "undefined NEO_KHZ400" error message, I'm using Arduino 1.6.6 on windows 10. Any hints on how to get this working?
View ArticleFlotilla Colour cannot see all three color components
This is perfectly normal, although possibly a confusing choice. I was looking over the code responsible for this last week. In order to scale the colour values to something that makes sense in...
View ArticleTrinket i2c Neopixel Driver
OK, I managed to sort this out myself, hopefully this will help some else, time to build the circuit and test. I had to modify the Adafruit_NeoPixel.h file to clear the "undefined NEO_KHZ400" error, I...
View ArticleWhat are Output Values for Pressure and Temp Sensors
The Rockpool web interface uses values that are all scaled to 0 to 1 so they can be fed from one module to another and they all agree on a fixed ranged. I've noticed how utterly confusing this makes...
View ArticleRockpool Cookbook Weather Station in Imperial Units SOLVED
I'll make note of this for Rockpool, too. I'm not saying it'll be in the Shipshape update, but it shouldn't be too hard to let you see Degrees F instead of C in the "Inspectors" ( the little text...
View ArticleRockpool Cookbook Weather Station in Imperial Units SOLVED
Good to hear. I totally understand this is a work in progress. The hardware (IMHO) is the hardest part. The software always comes second and is by far the easiest and fastest to change. I'm happy to...
View ArticleWhat are Output Values for Pressure and Temp Sensors
Glad to know it's on the drawing board. I've always documented my projects last....even though it's easier to do as I go but I understand, you guys are doing great. Thanks!
View ArticleI've built the worlds slowest light avoiding robot
We're currently overhauling the Rockpool UX/UI to make it better/faster/shinier and will put together the coding part when that's done ( otherwise the video will be out of date immediately ). It's...
View ArticledotHAT On an RPi2 "Ubuntu MATE"
Hi!Until recently i was on Raspbian Jessie, and worked smoothly on the dotHAT.Since a couple of days, i switched on ubuntu's rpi release, and now dotHAT is completely unusable.Is there any way to make...
View ArticleProblem getting Rockpool to work AT ALL!
I ran into this one, too. Maybe you should point it out on the start page!
View ArticledotHAT On an RPi2 "Ubuntu MATE"
Hi, Raspbian is the only distribution we officially support at the moment, but I suspect it could be made to work in Ubuntu Mate. I'd be surprised if someone hasn't tried it and fixed it already....
View Article7 inch touch screen 180 rotation
I think the lcd_rotate might not work with some versions of NOOBS. It might be worth updating your SD card to the latest version of Raspbian Jessie. However the steps to enable it are as follows: In...
View ArticleFlotilla Colour cannot see all three color components
Okay, as I understand it, the sensor devices (distinct from controls like Slider) have a fuzzy range. For example for temperature and pressure there are not good bottom ends (other than 0 degK and 0...
View ArticleFlotilla Colour cannot see all three color components
There's actually a 4th channel on this, and most RGB colour sensors, which is usually called something nonsensical like: "clear". It represents the unfiltered light level, so normally you can do...
View ArticleTechnical Support
I am a beginner to Pi, but when I go from the main menu to preferences then to Rasp pi configuration I cannot find anything that looks related to device-tree.
View ArticleNeed some help with the "Light" module in Python3 please
Python Beginner alert and long post warning :-o I'm more or less a beginner with Python but I can follow the code and have used other programming languages.I've managed to get mini-kit.py working by...
View ArticleCan't get flotilla to work and no cookbooks
Just tried that - it says bash: get.pimoroni.com/rockpool: no such file or directory
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