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holmez

That's what I kept thinking. But it only ever happens when the pi is switched on, and the only things connected to it are mouse, external HD, usb hub and psu. There is nothing connected to the line out, and although it is connected via hdmi to a tv, the tv is not switched to hdmi, and sometimes not ...

holmez

I have a small problem with my pi which has been ongoing, probably for a year now (since I got it). When my pi is running for any length of time, it beeps for no reason. Sometimes it will go a long time between beeping, other times not so long. When it beeps, it is a single, constant beep lasting no...

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Taking a class of about 40 eighth graders to the lab is a behavioral/logistical nightmare, so teachers have to avoid it until troublemakers are inevitably out on suspensions. Some schools have laptops on carts that can be brought to classrooms, but, again, the troublemakers are just as likely to sn...

holmez

[quote="hippy"][/quote] Thank you for the excellent response, I had no idea that it filled a huge gap in the market. I only got interested when it was featured on the news just before its launch, and decided to get one to see what I could do with it. I also had no idea about the other types of board...

holmez

a new version is forthcoming once the demand in the pi has died down to nothing My guess is that neither prediction will happen :D You think pi's will still be flying off the production line in 10 or 20 years time? Be one hell of a success story if that's the case. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I do...

holmez

Suliman wrote:When do you plan to release new version of Pi with more RAM and better CPU?

Based on the comments to date, I would suggest that a new version is forthcoming once the demand in the pi has died down to nothing.

holmez

Now, if you throw a new improved Pi in there you fracture all that effort. Support becomes divided between old and new. A huge amount of effort has to be put in by it's creators to bring it up to the level of stability of the current Pi. A huge amount of effort needs to be put in by all the users o...

holmez

redhawk wrote:Just be aware the GPIO pins are 3.3v tolerant only, anything higher i.e. 5v and you will damage them.

Richard S.

Is it safe to put the signal through a 3.3v zener diode? Or are there better ways to connect higher voltage signals to the GPIO pins?

holmez

LCDd would sort out itself what to write on the screen providing the size=16x1 is set correct. The interesting bit is it does it when first switched on or hard reset, but soft reset (sudo reboot) or LCDd restart it works as expected, correct? So maybe a power issue? Is the Pi itself getting enough ...

holmez

It does it both when switched on & when rebooted - in fact, it appeared to happen exactly as xbmc flashed up its network detected message. It may be a power issue - I only have a 1A power adaptor, running the pi, a hub, a HD and the LCD screen (I've never had any problems with the pi - I got about 5...

holmez

Apologies for not tinkering and updating since - seem to be having a busy week. Would be nice to have the 16x1 working first. Just wondering if there was any way of switching logging on - I notice the ReportLevel and ReportToSyslog options in the configuration file and am wondering if setting these ...

holmez

Thanks for your prompt reply boeeerb. It is connected on a breadboard, I have checked the connections again, but can find no loose connections. It seems consistent in that it is always a matter of seconds after XMBC has started that the display corrupts. Running sudo /etc/init.d/LCDd restart fixes t...

holmez

Hello, I hope someone here will be able to help me solve the problem I'm getting with a corrupt display on an LCD screen. I followed the tutorial on tech-fruits, which worked (almost) perfectly (many thanks for the great tutorial). I have a fully HD44780 compatible 16x1 screen on raspbian. When I tu...

holmez

If you have an external HDD, and are willing to put the time and effort into splitting the main partition onto it, and only the boot partition onto the SD card, it is possible to get away with a 64MB card.

holmez

You might want to have a look at the Screens and displays forum under Projects.

holmez

Should be fine. It seems to be a fairly common plan. See here . You're basically using 6 GPIO pins as output to feed: RS and E (control pins on the screen) DB4-7 (the 4 data bus pins) You will need to make sure to connect R/W pin to the ground. Other advice has been to connect DB0-3 to ground as wel...

holmez

Perhaps you should have a look at this thread from the Networking and servers forum.

The basic conclusion was that a 14W solar panel + a deep cycle leisure battery might be sufficient.

holmez

I've had a first thought of this too. I have a much older robotic, the RCX. I'm more interested in connecting the sensors(motors, light sensor, touch sensor) to the GPIO and doing a simple programme for it. But the hard part is, how much voltage can each sensor take in? I was wondering about using ...

holmez

Forgot to ask one more, can I install programs etc into the sd card that will contain debian image, or nothing else than image can be installed on sd card, and need to connect a drive (hard drive, usb etc) Yes you can. How much extra depends on the size of the SD card. A 2Gb card has a very limited...

holmez

Perhaps get some college students on the job, who are willing to work for a fraction of the price of a normal software contractor? I disagree with the type of economics that sees "employees" as a cost. They help you earn more instead. May not be an issue at the moment, while sales are still high, b...

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Perhaps it doesn't matter. One of the best things you can do to get ahead in life is to give your time to something. The big names (Eben, Liz, Jim et al) may not make their millions directly from the pi, but are sure to make far more indirectly.

holmez

Back in the day of early CB radio one of the tricks wasto run the CB from a battery but leave the battery attached to a battery charger. That way the battery acted as a voltage stabaliser. I was wondering if a small LI-recharge battery in the power line could perform the same with the pi and would ...

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Any thoughts? I'm seeing two schools of thought currently on this and similar issues - 1) There appears to be a lot of problems with low quality hub and/or hub power supplies. Some hubs are not fully compliant with USB standards, others are just cheap tat that you can get away with on a PC but the ...

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I also have a mouse/keyboard problem: Both the keyboard and the mouse work when plugged directly into the rpi. An HDD works in my USB hub. But neither my mouse nor my keyboard work when plugged into the hub, even if I only have hub, mouse and keyboard plugged in. Everything is powered by a 1A adapto...

holmez

So, in all the time you were waiting for your Pi to arrive, you didn't think to check what powersupply it needs? ;) http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs http://elinux.org/RPi_Hardware_Basic_Setup#Typical_Hardware_You_Will_Need I was in the same situation. Primarily because I didn't realise that there we...

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