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You can't predict whether this unit can supply the necessary current without definite specifications. All you know is that this unit has a capacity of 20Ah (ie if it were able to supply 2.5A, it could do so for 8 hours). Here's how it works: if you buy something from a shop, you look at the informat...

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This link has a diagram thanks to pcmanbob https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=194621 The problems with drive discussed in that thread are down to the use of a transistor (with limited current amplification) rather than a Darlington (much higher current amplification and therefore no...

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HashberryPee wrote: ↑
Wed May 23, 2018 9:42 am
It's like those third party tv remote controls which can learn from the original one.
That's the way I'd like to go.

Do let us know how you get on.

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This might help: viewtopic.php?f=45&t=213994

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I have a Raspberry Pi Model B+ V1.2. I was trying to do something simple like turning on/off an LED but I notice that the light was very dim. The RPi works fine, turns on, internet works, boots OS, pins that have 3.3 and 5V work as well as the rest of the pins but when I connect and LED w/ 50 ohm r...

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viewtopic.php?p=526758#p526758

alexeames wrote: ↑
Thu Mar 27, 2014 6:29 pm

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I completely forgot about a few darlington transistors TIP122 which I have and I hope I can use as an alternative? Please correct me if I am wrong but these transistors have got built in functionality which will work as a flywheel diode? if this is the case, additional part working as a "security g...

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The advice (as per the posts in the referenced thread) is to use an instrumentation amplifier. The concluding post sounds like the OP Intended to experiment with an op amp rather than an instrumentation amp. An ordinary op amp has too great an offset and drift for this kind of application - you coul...

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This: Grab the latest Raspbian image from https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ Grab the Etcher software from https://etcher.io/ Install Etcher and use it to write the Raspbian image to your SD card. You don't need to extract the image or format the card prior to writing. Just run Etcher, ...

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Try turning up the gain on the lm386...... http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/lm386.pdf That doesn't explain why the Pi Zero appears to be behaving differently from a 3B. Am I missing something? How can I get a decent volume level with this setup? Any help or pointers in the right direction would be ...

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Hi, im fairly new to GPIO and I've hooked up one resistor to Ground and split the cable up to 12 GPIO inputs. Can that work? Whether it works depends what you are trying to achieve. If you intend to light a combination of LEDs according to the outputs you set on the GPIO, then no (I assume you mean...

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bensimmo wrote: ↑
Mon May 21, 2018 7:22 pm
But have a read here
viewtopic.php?t=173854

The concluding post in that thread looks rather like hope over practicality, flying in the face of advice further up. Just throwing any old op amp at a strain bridge won't cut the mustard.

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What is it about people that they are unwilling for businesses to make an income? How would you get paid if your employer didn't make an income? The choice is simple: if you want what a commercial enterprise has to offer, you pay for it or do without. Trying to find ways to have it for free destroys...

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Hello, After reading a number of articles, I think I have finally got my head around this subject however as I have pretty much no knowledge about the electronic, I would really appreciate if someone could give me a little bit of reassurance/confirm my thinking is correct. I have followed steps fro...

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The various remarks above are misleading. Do not confuse patents with the right to licence. Licence fees are paid in return for the permission to use somebody's product - in this case, the MPEG2 software library. That "somebody" is whoever owns the copyright on the software. The fees the Pi Foundati...

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Actually, a lot of consumer product safety work is protecting the user against himself. That is what it means to make a product "safe". I.e., it is all fun and games for us crochety types to be snotty on a forum here - about poor, demented users who short pins together getting what they deserve - b...

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Following on from this, is there any protection they could have placed on the 3v3 lines, mainly one sat next to the 5v pins. Yes: What could have been done is to have made them pins 1 & 2 with 0V on pins 3 & 4 - that way an accidental short to an adjacent pin would not be fatal What could be done i...

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It was just a bloody suggestion to incite talk of ways it could be improved. I know it is the way it is now, flippity flips sake. :-) How could you improve it from what we get now, on the 3B(+) Education is thinking of way to improve it, not just working around it. RPF/T are constantly looking to i...

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I am not a big fan of the open up the remote and press the switches approach. Not because it can't work, more that it potentially breaks the remote and also means you can't also use the remote separately after the hack. That fair enough, and a valid point of view. However, being a hardware man it w...

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The approach I would take is to hack the existing remote control so that the RPi is used to generate keypad inputs. It may be "quick and dirty", but it should produce results. How can I hack the remote? Is there any device to catch and decode the signals? I mean physically hack: disassemble it, and...

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A lot more information is needed before any specific advice can be given. What, exactly, is the circuit?

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It depends exactly how you have connected the switch (button). If you are accidentally or deliberately relying on arbitrary circuit characteristics for the resulting input voltage to the GPIO pin to be within specification, or for the voltage to be out of specification but still just about OK to be ...

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Has anyone noticed that Pi 3 B+ fries if 3V3 rail is shorted to 5V. This did not happen in Pi 3 B. Seems to because of the upgrade to MXL7704 integrated regulator chip. You can read more about it here: https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/pi-power-supply-chip/. Is there a place where this hardware bug ...

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At first glance, it looks like the "process" command takes parameters which specify character string replacements in a file. These things can be accomplished easily in Linux.

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The approach I would take is to hack the existing remote control so that the RPi is used to generate keypad inputs. It may be "quick and dirty", but it should produce results.

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