I've been trying to get cups working and have had some success but no breakthrough as far as adding a new printer. Cups 1.5.3 does discover printers that are attached to my Imac and I can print to them but that means the Imac has to be on. The printer is a networked HP5000 that I access from the oth...

I ordered the Pi and Gertboard from Farnell in early August. i got the 256k Raspberry Pi in late August and have had fun playing around with it. I was considering making a cheap XMBC setup but was concerned about not having enough ram to handle everything. Now that the version B has 512k of ram that...

5.1v _ 20w G18640B.jpg I just ordered a 5.1v 20 watt Condor switch mode power supply for my Pi for $10 form Electronic Goldmine. the 5v 1A usb charger I'm using now works ok but when i couple it to the Gert board it may need a bit more oomph to drive things.This will supply about 3,9 amps and looks...

I ordered mine from Newark / Element 14 on Aug 11 and got notified it was shipped yesterday by priority mail so I should have it by friday. They initially said it would be shipped the first week of september so they are a little ahead Bob Does anyone knows if Farnell is fulfilling the expected deliv...

I should be getting my pi in a week or so (ordered from Newark in early August). I came across this method of heatsinking the chips and thought some might find it interesting.

http://www.michaeldornisch.com/2012/06/ ... -sink.html

Bob