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by SN
Wed Sep 26, 2012 10:05 pm
Forum: Graphics, sound and multimedia
Topic: Interactive sound instillation using Pi + MakeyMakey
Replies: 3
Views: 1665

Re: Interactive sound instillation using Pi + MakeyMakey

It's easy to hook up the MakeyMakey to the Pi. Here's some vid: http://youtu.be/9IzrWdDeuFM Cool! Royal Mail tried to deliver my MakeyMakey yesterday - no one was home AND there was a £4.42' Customs Charge to pay PLUS another £8 handling fee ... Grrrrrr :evil: Picking it up tomorrow and looking for...
by SN
Sat Sep 22, 2012 2:33 pm
Forum: Media centres
Topic: my simple idea
Replies: 4
Views: 1400

Re: my simple idea

You need no parts other than a pi, psu, wireless network conn. Hdmi cable and an android phone. It really is dead easy
by SN
Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:55 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Who is in the 1GHz Club?
Replies: 73
Views: 26748

Re: Who is in the 1GHz Club?

My website pi is running at 1ghz. The xbmc pi is still on an old build at 700mhz
by SN
Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:12 pm
Forum: Other projects
Topic: Any Android device could be used as a wired/wireless display
Replies: 2
Views: 4563

Re: Any Android device could be used as a wired/wireless dis

Overcomplicating matters...

I just have the ConnectBot app installed on my Galaxy Tab & S2

Works fine if I don't care about the Graphic Console - and I don't, because in general the only things I need that aren't console based are web based so I use the Android Browser for that on both devices
by SN
Tue Sep 18, 2012 1:07 pm
Forum: Troubleshooting
Topic: Cannot see past Router
Replies: 8
Views: 1623

Re: Cannot see past Router

have you configured the Gateway entry (to point to your Router) in the Pi networking?
by SN
Sat Sep 15, 2012 8:29 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Flight sim? [obsolete thread]
Replies: 30
Views: 20159

Re: Flight sim?

Thanks TheRobster! "somebody with programming skills"... Indeed. I only have Fortran, Visual Basic, VBA, DOS batch, VBScript, HTML, a bit of Java and am now learning Python. IMHO all these are useless and we need somebody versed into advanced game programming, with 3D Glide environments. All I can ...
by SN
Thu Sep 13, 2012 1:09 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Flight sim? [obsolete thread]
Replies: 30
Views: 20159

Re: Flight sim?

I confess to once-upon-a-time being a "small-sized-cheese" in the MS Train Sim community to the point of a) contributing to stuff on the shelves of Game and b) getting a good way down writing my own engine in VB consuming MSTS assets. (sadly the better ORTS rewrite of the same ilk has been done in ...
by SN
Mon Sep 10, 2012 7:02 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: "made in the UK" feedback.
Replies: 33
Views: 4303

Re: "made in the UK" feedback.

The op is completely bonkers. Do we not live in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? I thought we did. Great Britain is the name of an island and Wales is actually a collection of counties on one side of that island since as pointed out elsewhere Wales and for all intents and pu...
by SN
Mon Sep 10, 2012 6:07 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Remote controlling the Pi over the internet
Replies: 4
Views: 2274

Re: Remote controlling the Pi over the internet

Use teamviewer onto one of those pc's and have putty installed on that pc
by SN
Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:22 am
Forum: Automation, sensing and robotics
Topic: Leap Motion + RasPi
Replies: 10
Views: 14262

Re: Leap Motion + RasPi

Well I've pre-ordered one - if you go to leapmotion.com they're offering them up at $70 plus postage

If you don't know what this is watch the video on this page
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/42 ... the-smart/
by SN
Sat Sep 08, 2012 9:58 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: So: who's got a rev2 board?
Replies: 40
Views: 8185

Re: So: who's got a rev2 board?

Am thinking I need to order a Rev 2 pi to go with my four Rev 1 boards....
by SN
Sat Sep 08, 2012 12:00 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Wow... 5 days from order to shipping from Farnell
Replies: 17
Views: 4007

Re: Wow... 5 days from order to shipping from Farnell

sheesh - 5 days order to ship :shock:

not like the good old days when you fought for hours just to place an order and then waited three months before it dropped through the letter box :roll:
by SN
Thu Sep 06, 2012 1:24 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Setting up pi with a domain name
Replies: 17
Views: 9383

Re: Setting up pi with a domain name

i had a quick google and it looks like my isp (virgin media) doesnt block port 80 thats my ISP and one of my raspi's is running a little website quite merrily with nothing but port 80 pass through on the router - virgin media seem to hold their ip definition (to me) quite steady - i've only had to ...
by SN
Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:27 pm
Forum: Python
Topic: Morse machine problems...
Replies: 7
Views: 1728

Re: Morse machine problems...

on the subject of good coding style you might want to move your definitions of what dots and dashes are required for each letter into an array of some kind, index that array by letter and then and use the indexed data to drive the leds rather than write an individual function for each letter :| as a...
by SN
Tue Sep 04, 2012 11:35 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: New version of the Pi? (got one)
Replies: 26
Views: 5003

Re: New version of the Pi? (got one)

nice...
mounting points too!
by SN
Tue Sep 04, 2012 8:36 am
Forum: Camera board
Topic: Camera module! (And a picture of JamesH)
Replies: 431
Views: 169744

Re: Camera module! (And a picture of JamesH)

can you give us any clue on when (weeks,months,years timeframe) the camera module is going to be available to order? I need to make sure my alarm clock is ready for another 29th February morning ;-)
by SN
Sat Sep 01, 2012 10:03 pm
Forum: Automation, sensing and robotics
Topic: MaKey MaKey & Raspberry Pi . Great combination!!!
Replies: 8
Views: 6395

Re: MaKey MaKey & Raspberry Pi . Great combination!!!

still waiting for mine too :cry:
by SN
Tue Aug 07, 2012 5:46 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: backing up
Replies: 21
Views: 4703

Re: backing up

I thought you could constrain how many bytes dd copies with a parameter value. If you know you're only using the first physical 2gb of the sd card that should work
by SN
Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:31 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Getting past TSA in the USA
Replies: 21
Views: 18422

Re: Getting past TSA in the USA

They used to ask to see laptop computers turned on and booting or coming out of hibernation or sleep modes. yes but that was because their scanners couldn't tell the difference between laptop batteries and a block of semtex 10 years back you needed to be sure you had some juice in your laptop when ...
by SN
Thu Aug 02, 2012 8:27 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Alternative solutions for wireless connection
Replies: 6
Views: 1616

Re: Alternative solutions for wireless connection

I've got one too and it is bridging from my Pi hosting my website to my wireless router and the outside world However... it does seem far to keen to drop the link between pi and wireless router if there is no network activity. So I have a 30 second ping to 8.8.8.8 running constantly as a background ...
by SN
Sat Jul 28, 2012 3:15 pm
Forum: General discussion
Topic: Cheap powered USB hub?
Replies: 8
Views: 5992

Re: Cheap powered USB hub?

I have two of ebay item 220522733314 work well with 2 or 3 amp psu
by SN
Fri Jul 27, 2012 8:46 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Don't laugh
Replies: 4
Views: 1977

Re: Don't laugh

you need to run it with a sudo on the front as your need root permission to access the GPIO I believe
by SN
Thu Jul 26, 2012 12:31 am
Forum: General discussion
Topic: What's yours called?
Replies: 42
Views: 5542

Re: What's yours called?

R1,R2,R3 and R4 - at the moment...
by SN
Sun Jul 22, 2012 7:29 pm
Forum: HATs and other add-ons
Topic: Are the Gertboards here?
Replies: 84
Views: 21365

Re: Are the Gertboards here?

I'm sorry but I'm going to have to stick up fir Gert and the RPF here. Just get off their case and sto whinging about what they're doing. Go do your own thing but DON'T criticise them for the good work they're doing for not a lot if any reward as far as I can see.

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