Hi, thanks both for replying. I've since soldered some pins to the FTDI circuit and can now communicate with the Pi Lite via a UART/USB adapter from my PC. I can open the Arduino IDE terminal and send scrolling text directly to the Pi Lite and it displays them. However, I cannot upload Arduino sketc...

Hello, I've recently bought one of these from Maplin - it was going cheap - I think it has potential but as you said (13 months ago!) there's next to no support. I've just about figured out the syntax and have managed to successfully send text straight from Minicom and also run a few Python scripts....

If you want to always run IDLE with root privs then simply edit the desktop link entry in ~/Desktop and change the following line: Exec=/usr/bin/idle to Exec=sudo /usr/bin/idle You will then be able to just open idle in the normal way from your desktop and it will have root privs. Hi,I did this by ...

Cheers DirkS that sorted it!

Hi there, just created a new install of Jessie and ran the commands listed below:- sudo apt-get update - succeeded sudo apt-get install python-pip python3-pip - succeeded sudo pip install gpiozero - failed sudo pip-3.2 install gpiozero - succeeded The error for the third line is:- building 'spidev' ...

Hi there - I would be interested in knowing of any progress made on this - I would like to develop a system for my elderly mother.

Thanks,

Andrew

Hi there, I've had a similar experience, having installed the Slice of Radio onto my RPi B+ and tried the various introductory exercises I was happy that everything was working. I then installed Arduino 1.0.6 on my PC and uploaded the Blink sketch. Two days later, I set up the RPi again and found th...

Hello, I once accidentally connected the wrong hdmi lead into my Pi. Instead of the one connected to my TV, I connected the one from my PC. Since then, I get no output from the Hdmi connection. Other than that, the Pi works perfectly, obviously using the s-video output. I have since bought a second ...