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UnicornHAT show .png files?

I'll have a look tomorrow - just looking at the code it seemed it would be OK with an image exactly 8x8, but I guess there's a 'gotcha' I'm not seeing.

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Rockpool - Searching for Flotilla takes 10 minutes or more

Honestly I'm surprised you're trying to do that at all. It would certainly be a nice feature to auto discover all the Flotilla units on the LAN but far from essential. I like what's in Rockpool so...

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Display-o-Tron: display IP while waiting for passphrase

Hi! I have a server on a Raspberry Pi 2 that uses an encrypted root filesystem. It's pretty easy to do with Debian. Although it requires an initramfs which is not how most installations are done. It's...

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UnicornHAT show .png files?

I seem to have solved the problem, unfortunately when exporting the images from photoshop it must have removed any surrounding transparency and this resulted in all my images being sized 8x7 and less,...

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UnicornHAT show .png files?

np, glad to hear you got to the bottom of the issue.

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Rockpool - Searching for Flotilla takes 10 minutes or more

floyduk: I've spent most of this evening wiring up all the modules to each other in various random combinations and playing with the converters. :D I had "Sine Wave" implemented as a converter in...

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Rockpool - Searching for Flotilla takes 10 minutes or more

Ahhh a sine wave converter is an excellent idea. A value passed into a Sine converter would let me do what I want. I still think a Cosine wave would be useful. Combining a Sine and a Cosine wave would...

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All video's on the new 7" PI 2 Touchscreen are not in sync [SOLVED]

Thanks Pimoroni Crew. The solutions is to add the right codecs, now the video's are right in sync with the 7" display. See: www.howtogeek.com How to Add MPEG-2 and VC-1 Video Codec Support to Your...

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Scroll pHAT - IO error

Just wondering if getting the odd IOError is normal? I added a print where the IOError exception is caught so I could get a better understanding of how many I am getting. I ran the example progress.py...

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Scroll pHAT - IO error

Interestingly the sine.py example which uses set_buffer rather than set_pixel does not throw a single IOError.

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Scroll pHAT - IO error

have you updated the package? they supressed the IO error... im unsure why theyre appearing but one thing to be aware of is that not all of the pins are required to be soldered on the scrollphat.....

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Scroll pHAT - IO error

you should only get an error on 10 consectutive IO Errors github.com/pimoroni/scroll-phat Suppressed IO error flood by Gadgetoid on 08:34PM - 19 Jan 16 changed 1 files with 12 additions and 2 deletions.

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Scroll pHAT - IO error

A actually added the more verbose logging of the IOErrors back in to the update method as I wanted to see how frequently I was receiving them. Without my verbose logging I guess I would get the normal...

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Display-o-Tron: toy music player with scrolling colors

Here's a “toy” music player written using Python, and GStreamer. On the Display-o-Tron LCD, it will show artist name, title and time. While playing, the music is analyzed ala moodbar to turn the sound...

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DisplayOTron Hat not running

Hi, quick thanks for the help, all running now. I did wonder if it was an admin problem.Thanks again, all the best IALong.

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Display-o-Tron: display IP while waiting for passphrase

Guess realPy's kernel module would allow us to get rid of a good amount of the code. That'll be for a next time.

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Display-o-Tron ST7036 R/W pin?

Display O Tron Hat kernel Module There a are a pin missing that would be very useful with the st7036 So according to realpy's message and the diagram on pinout.xyz there's no way to access the R/W...

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Noisemaker

What actually makes the noise though? I see lots of inputs on there. What's the output? I don't really understand what the noisemaker is meant to be.

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Flotilla "ShipShape" Update: Dip in and try the pre-release

You could add a button to turn on and off the moving graphs. Call it turbo mode or something. It could be something to turn on once you've debugged your app and want to just run it. Also it would have...

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HTU21D-F Humidity Sensor is faulty

Hi there, I ordered 6 HTU21D-F in order #PI46874. I've tested all of them and one of them appears to be faulty. Other units report a humidity level of 38.8%, except one, which reports a staggering...

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