Simian I would be hesitant to suggest that you put any hardware on the street, especially that has some kind of active output, you leave yourself liable to litigation for any incidents that may occur (solicitors will try everything to divert blame for RTAs) I would suggest that if you have a highway...

Take pi and windows disc.

Throw away pi.

Buy pc from store.

Install windows.

Cry as you cant learn anything and and system crashes lots.

Something like the http://www.schmalzhaus.com/EasyDriver/ would work here.

Unlikely without breaking some local laws.

Nick.

Something like this:
http://www.0-360.com/
With the associated software is whats needed.

I was in poundstretcher the other day and they have the above cables at £3.99 each (labelled at £4.99, they go through the till at a whole english pound cheaper!). I have since bought a couple (one for me and one for a colleague) and they work very nicely on two different Pi's and various monitors a...

Morgancomputers has some cheap screens, best to call and ask if any are DVI compatible though.

Nick.

<t>Urm, if you want to support the foundation buy from one of the two official suppliers who are international companies with good reputations who have contracts to honour.<br/> <br/> If there are cheaper clones and you still want to benefit the foundation, then donate the difference to the foundati...

I've been really happy with one.com

Lots of storage and cloud services I dont use.

Nick

<t>"Then we learned about the RJ45 socket problem and that the boards had not actually left China on schedule because of that, and the Foundation said that replacing the components was expected to add 4 days to deliveries.  This doesn't transform "early March" into "mid April" in any shape or form."...

<t>Hi<br/> <br/> I'm Nick, 32. I live in South London, a Traffic Control Engieer by trade right now.<br/> <br/> My background is my mums ZX81, my dad used to borrow Superbrains, Apple II's and Macs from work and we were also treated to a Spectrum +2 when they came out.<br/> <br/> I had a massive arc...

<t>So what I would like to achieve with a Pi is touchscreen (and real button so inputs required) based Stepper motor control with optional webcam based tracking.<br/> <br/> maybe webserver link it to track pets/burglars<br/> <br/> No idea if I can do it, no idea how I'll do it and no idea why I'm do...