pcmanbob, DougieLawson, neilgl, joan Thank you for your insights it is truly appreciated. I'm going to move forward with the help from your responses. After practicing some soldering I will return to the chip and try to salvage my first mistakes and follow up with a post, hopefully with a successful...

Hi joan and neilgl, https://photos.app.goo.gl/hSS8q3u3Dq7oqgpn6 - ADS1115 chip close up photo https://photos.app.goo.gl/kYaKY8amAs3sK59r5 - to the PI wiring https://photos.app.goo.gl/73ML1tSFZg2zQhBD7 - oblique of the device https://photos.app.goo.gl/B8L1UHnXJvd7wxxh6 - angle of pentiometer https://...

i2cdetect -y 1 is not discovering my device that I constructed, see the photo below possibly the soldering is botched or the wiring is bad? I'm not an excellent solderer. https://photos.app.goo.gl/HSxBxhYkrHwnSqtg7 https://photos.app.goo.gl/dWyV6N4fTK6767Bc6 this is a raspberrypi 3 and this circuit ...

I hit a depressive episode in my twenties and when following my dad to work found Mathematica on one of the computers in an abandoned room on a research campus of UC Berkeley. It was probably my oldest/fondest memory of programming. Most people, or the really good programmers, start very young. Stil...

Yes, sometimes commands require multiple arguments.

If you become too dependent on other's programs that you don't understand, you can always start smaller in whatever way you define that.

Idle will boot files because when you load the .py file to the idle terminal, it understands the path. However with the command line in the raspberry pi you need to define the path or have the working directory be where the file is located. You are getting an IO error because you cannot locate the f...

hi my name is vince. i like my code name as a reference to ghost in the machine. i don't know about all this tech stuff where it's taking me but it's better than where i was. life is hard but i think computer make it easier. w/ the science of it.

Thanks Patrick!

I am in the same boat, it only happened just recently.