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Heater wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 18, 2018 1:56 am
I can always hack up some kind of guard ring and glue it on there.

Yes, do that. The Antex guard is still a guard - although small, it is enough to stop it slipping. The TS lacks any kind of guard at all.

Possible solution: https://sugru.com/buy/original-formula-black-8-pack

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Heater wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 17, 2018 1:21 pm
In fact I don't even have a TS100 yet.

So your "I wouldn't bother with that" is based on nothing? Tsk.

I recommend you think twice before getting the TS100: there is no guard on the handle, so it would be very easy for fingers to slip onto the hot bit.

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You should also note that on the original Pi B the 26-pin numbering was slightly different. Pins 3 and 5 were GPIO0 and GPIO1 (BCM), still with the 1K8 pull-ups and available for general use, and Pin 13 was GPIO21. Thanks for the alert. My research indicates the above only applies to the Rev 1 boar...

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I have a switch like the one below how do you wire this to the raspberry pi? swslidestddps_sml.jpg I tried to follow this article http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/robot/buttons_and_switches/ but I could not work out how to wire it. Could someone please explain or send a pictur...

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This was never intended to be a "mine's better than yours" face-off, just alerting UK forum members to the availability (and I note your link is for Aus). However, yours looks nice - although considerably more expensive, and the tips will be more expensive. For tin/lead I rarely even get m...

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In case anyone is in need of a new (or better) soldering iron: Aldi currently have one of their "specials"* - a Work Zone (own-brand) soldering station comprising a stand (with sponge tray), the iron itself (with three tips, threaded fitting), and a control box with LCD digital temperature...

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I feels as though this thing is too dumbed down to be useable for me. It seems to me you were expecting too much. The RPi is not a PC minus peripherals, it was a cheap-and-cheerful means to put hands-on computing electronics into the hands of children and educationists, and then massively adopted b...

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Which Arduino board (for I/O applications) should I buy and where please? Your question has already been answered: Have you seen this HAT? https://www.dfrobot.com/product-1211.html HATs are designed to plug straight onto the RPi GPIO, and this HAT has a 5V Arduino complete with all the voltage leve...

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Keep it simple. Question 1: is there a spare contact on the relay, or do you have to monitor the drive to the relay coil only?

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I can't tell you which contact is which on that photo of the socket - you will need to work that out for yourself (it's not rocket science). I would have thought the rest was pretty straightforward (now you have established the negatives are common) too: common the negatives and take them to the neg...

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If you want a fan to run continuously, use a 5V fan and connect it to the 5V pin on the GPIO or plug it into the USB socket. Transistors are only required if you want to turn the fan on and off under program control.

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Beat detection is trickier than you seem to think. I recommend you read up about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription_(music)#Beat_detection https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_detection Implementing it in an RPi will require DSP (digital signal processing) operations, and (in the firs...

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How do you plan to link the RPi to the mobile phone network to receive the MMS in the first place? Once you've done that, sure the rest is possible.

It would be easier to receive an image in an email.

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Is this a fun project or a serious requirement? If the latter, just go and buy a commercial reversing camera system - it won't work out any more expensive.

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The supply variations caused by motors at the various conditions they can face are very difficult to accommodate when also trying to power sensitive (and power-hungry) electronics systems. Save yourself a lot of grief and use separate batteries.

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When an engineer posts a question related to a commercial product, the answer is usually that the Pi was designed as a real computer that children can own and not as a mission critical device for industrial control. Except, as an engineer, I was criticised for saying that and told that the Compute ...

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I mean a similar radio chip that is fully compatible with RPi There's nothing "incompatible" about the TEA5767 - I just told you to make sure it would be OK running at 3.3V instead of the Arduino 5V, and the post above says it is. The rest is learning how to code the RPi to run it. The on...

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I believe this should work but I'd like some confirmation. Thanks! I don't think it will, and I seem to have some agreement on that. For some design principles on circuits I, personally, know will work, take a look at my guide: https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=207597 (scr...

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Any progress here? I will happily send you a couple of Schottky diodes to test, but now this forum does not allow PMs we have no means to exchange contact details in private.

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The other link had the load between the power source and drain side of the MOSFET and the source goes to ground. Either way works. Really? The illustration now available in the first post looks completely weird (although I did say I have little experience of FETs). I would be happier with the sourc...

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finnbo11 wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 12, 2018 10:41 am
I've done a bit of work with Arduino. Is there anyway I could feed data to the RPi.

Plenty. A standard serial data link seems favourite.

finnbo11 wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 12, 2018 10:41 am
Or alternatively is there another similar chip I could use?

For what?

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Your button will not be reliable unless it is wired correctly. See the link below, and scroll down to "Hardware Interfacing".

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The "feedback" is an issue for radio and mains-borne home automation systems such as X10. You need to be looking at IP remote controlled sockets and the like (probably WiFi), or a full bespoke setup with RPis communicating to other RPis. Bear in mind that there are already commercial offer...

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I want to use a tea5767 chip as it has an inbuilt amplifier. I've had a quick squint and the examples seem to be for Arduino. Be aware that the Arduino used 5V but the RPi used 3.3V (even if 5V is available from the GPIO and USB etc). You will need to make sure the electrical interface is OK (or ad...

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