Hi, interesting question as my wife has just reminded me that I have a LED cube attached to the Pi that has been running for a night and day. As others have suggested the Pi is inherently safe but its worth putting a few safeguards in place: The Pi runs on 5 volts, about the same as a torch, so no p...

Hi Simon,,
The file was a PDF. I've also stored it as a doc: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxZfFVr ... sp=sharing

I got my Pi last May. I decided write a wide range of simple programs to try things out and document all my experiences in detail. I've documented how I learned python and wrote early programs on the PC, getting the Pi working, writing programs for the Pi, simple wiring circuits, building a breakout...

Hi, not sure if I've missed the point. I've just bought a new 21" monitor and found that VGA works better than HDMI. I initially used the HDMI on 2 HD TVs. In both cases I had to play around with the settings. Using VGA on my old small display I found it almost unusable as the display size was ...

Hi, Pronro. I'll have a look at the interface you mentioned. I've not used the Mercury but did quite a lot on the Argus using early assembly languages. I did electronics before IT at university and then moved onto IT for around 40 years. In common with a lot of IT people I used around 12 or so langu...

I've noticed on other posts that HDMI to VGA converters are thought to be expensive. Not sure what expensive is considered to be. I have an old monitor that I use via the HDMI port. I bought a converter from Amazon for £14. It works fine.

I've enclosed a link to a detailed description of the code I've written to try out Python and the Pi. I hope others will find this useful. As its a very long time since I did any programming I'm starting more or less from scratch. The code is therefore used to "just get something to work" ...

Its a very long time since I did any programming, so I decided to get a Pi and start more or less from scratch. I assumed others would be in the same position so I've documented everything I've done in lots of detail. I started using Python on windows and converted code across when the Pi arrived. T...

I have the same problem. If I restart the Pi it goes away for a time. I've noticed today that by taking the keyboard out of the powered USB Hub and using the Pi USB the problem went away. I didn't need to restart. I'm waiting to see if this clears it up perminantly.

Hi, I'm also very new to Debian and python and would like to get Sqlite working. So any help on getting it onto the Pi would be useful. As for a round-robin I would have thought that its very simple if you use 2 tables. One pre-populated with dummy rows and the other which just stores the last row w...

Thanks Mark, that worked fine, I've now plenty of space to work with!!

markb wrote:There is no administrator/root account in Debian, you need to use the sudo command. you can run gparted as root by opening a terminal window and typing:

sudo gparted.

I received my Pi on Friday and I'm having fun trying things out. I noticed that the SD card space is limited due to the image. When I tried to run Gparted to reallocate the partition I'm asked for the Administrator/Root password. Does anyone know what this is ???