I have used a few different tools to SSH into the Pi form my windows machine such as PuTTY, but recently discovered MobaXterm http://mobaxterm.mobatek.net/ It has a few nice features such as: being able to navigate your windows system using linux commands (I seem to be forever putting windows comman...

Just a bit of an update incase anyone is interested, Looks like freesat (well satellite TV) is doable with a usb receiver and a couple of RPis, at least with Raspbmc.

http://forum.stmlabs.com/showthread.php?tid=3177

Hi, What satellite receiver have you got, just out of interest? I currently have a RPi behind the TV running RASPBMC serving media / on demand tv etc. It works pretty well and I'm happy with it. We currently have a satellite feed in another part of the house which we do not use, so I have no receive...

Hi, Has anyone had any luck with getting a DVB-S2 USB device working with the RPi? I know that on the RASPBMC forums there has been success with DVB-T units. I was thinking about the DVBSky S960 which enjoys good linux support but claims that it needs something like a P3 3GHz processor for HD. I'm a...

Excellent work everyone, Many thanks for taking my initial work and turning it into a tutorial. I am currently thinking about how to take the hardware off the prototyping board and make a small tidy unit. Hopefully, kids permitting, I'll find some time to put something together in the near future. A...

Than's what I was aiming for, far more readable and I don't doubt will be much faster. Certainly it is much neater and more logical. I particularly like the x=y=z=True notation. Didn't know you could do that and it makes all the difference. Many thanks, -- M. Thinks I should start with reading the t...

I have just re-read this..... Apologies to all for my terrible spelling! I was doing it on the Pi via VNC while my daughter was playing on it, so things were somewhat laggy, hence not noticing the typos. I have an idea to take it off the breadboard and solder all the components onto a connector so i...

Hi all, I guess this is a bit trivial, but we all have to start somewhere! I how have a strip of 5 leds acting as a cpu usage indicator. I am particularly pleased with myself as I have not dome much in the way of electronics since school many years ago, and this is my first proper go with Python. My...

I know there are a few messages about GCompris, so picked one almost at random to post this... My 5 year old is playing very well on this software running with the new Raspbian distribution. It is a little slower than I'd like and falls over occasionally, but she likes it a lot. So far she has pract...

Hi all, I usually lurk, as I have nothing of value to add, but hopefully this will be of interest. I have been playing with a Teensy microcontroller recently for another application. It has some nice features, such as acting as a HID client (programmable keyboard), and the board has a usb socket rea...

My daughter is five years old, she has used computers at school and occasionally my laptop, but I discourage that as I like my laptop to be moderately clean and in one piece. We have played with Scratch in the past and she loves it. The other day she asked to play on the computer. "Not your computer...

Cross posted on the Warrington thread. I'm based at Ellesmere Port, so just down the road on the grand scheme of things. Have VNC / SSH set up and Raspbmc on another card. Plans are currently: Monitoring home network and NAS units such as alarms when disk space runs low. Media system obviously Re-le...

I'm based at Ellesmere Port, so just down the road on the grand scheme of things. Have VNC / SSH set up and Raspbmc on another card. Plans are currently: Monitoring home network and NAS units such as alarms when disk space runs low. Media system obviously Re-learning Linux after several years off. L...

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