I fear I've damaged the LS6203 chip. I was just setting up to test the motor control when I found that the 9V battery, and the LS6203 were hot :shock: I'd hooked the battery up the wrong way round. :oops: Once everything had cooled off, I tried with the correct connections. No joy. No motor movement...
Just noticed this thread. Well, when Windows 95 came out, I hated it on sight. By then Linux was pretty much usable and I had "fun" installing Slackware from a stack of floppy downloads. It was a pain to setup, but stayed setup just as you left it, unlike Windows where hardware arbitrarily disappear...
I do wonder what language was used on LEO, the computer system that ran Lyons' Teashops for years (stock control and Payroll, I think) Supposedly the world's first business computer: http://is2.lse.ac.uk/leo/About_LEO.htm And people are thinking of making an emulator. What are the odds that someone,...
You could try compiling GNU Forth. It doesn't seem to be in the Arch Arm repository. gforth I've been intrigued by Forth, and occasionally look at it: there're quite extensive tutorials online, but I've never been clear what it's used for (I'm sure I saw a mention of radio telescopes some years bac...
Well, just count me in as another Perl user - hacker is way above my pay grade. Had some issues with cpan and cpanp (kept saying it couldn't unpack the .tar.gz files for modules) but installing modules by hand works OK. Installed Tk, and to my delight found that the Distributed Proofreaders post-pro...
After problems the last few days with my Pi randomly locking up, it is now just as randomly (almost) behaving itself. It was probably the usual inadequate power problem causing crashes, but after I posted here about it, I started getting 1hour+ uptimes. Here's the odd thing: first bootup results in ...
Does anyone know how to access the X11 libraries the Pi plainly uses? I'm trying to build wxWidgets but need either GTK+ or X-11 libraries / headers. Is libgtk2.0-dev what you're looking for? The software manager on my Linux mint PC says: This package contains the header files and static libraries ...
Might be interesting to test if the uptime is higher without USB devices (e.g. mouse/keyboard) plugged in. See the attached picture for my default configuration. Only the USB cable for power, and the ethernet for communication with my PC. (The first day my desktop was a horrible mess with the extra...
I started running my Pi on ArmedSlack. Had some hours fiddling and installing stuff, until it started dying. Installed DebianSqueeze instead, but that also is prone to dying. I can ssh in and display on my non-HDMI monitor via my PC's Xserver. But at some random time the router LEDs show the etherne...
I started running my Pi on ArmedSlack. Had some hours fiddling and installing stuff, until it started dying. Installed DebianSqueeze instead, but that also is prone to dying. I can ssh in and display on my non-HDMI monitor via my PC's Xserver. But at some random time the router LEDs show the etherne...