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Given that a raspberry pi B+ uses about 2 to 3 Watts, you could have eight of them always on (yes !eight) with less power than a <brand-name> rival, all running some sort of check-the-other LAN program, and tell the router that the first one which agrees with the majority is the server to get outsid...

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That is only so if you count replicating sysmon.exe in and out of cache as processing, with occasional halts to trundle it off up the 240-ohm 200 lines to DDR and back. Personally, I prefer to skip all that waste.

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Nevertheless, you'll get a theory calibration which says that it is good to +-0.01%, but does not know the temperature dependent mV where a copper wire is touching a nickelplated one somewhere. But first, put an icecube tray in the freezer, as that will be one point in your testing tomorrow.

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Read up twenty year old material about RISC operating systems. Like the old IBM, the pentium was designed as a commercial chip to do lots of things and to have a few *mistakes* which software firms could rely on being there in all subsequent versions. The ARM chip was designed by purists to be Turin...

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16 bit precision? +-0.5% is 1/256 so you should expect at best 10-bit useful precision, and more probably seven bits of useful followed by noise. I'd say i) look at the datasheet tabulations of thermister resistance at various listed temperatures and spreadsheet yourself a chart to look at 16-bit ad...

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I don't expect that the arduino will be good for camera images. Reason is that arduino has about 2k of data memory and about 32k of program memory. The number of bits required to store a 3 colour image at 8 bits per colour of size 240x240 pixels is 1382400; or about 1350k. So no chance of getting th...

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probably ok. try it. Today a specially complicated multi-partition 32GB SD card which I'd made in gparted did not work. My main goal had been to define a huge swap partition before running noobs. I wiped the card, reformatted to FAT32 which I think means much the same as VFAT, copied in the unzipped...

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The question is unanswerable until you've said how much current (either measured or from datasheet) you expect to put through each servo and how much current in total you'll use from time to time. As it is, they might be industrial ones for which AWG22 is definitely way too small. As the weight and ...

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I'm not too happy with only 1k from your gpio control pin to the base of your transistor because the 3mA which it might draw is a bit much for the very tiny system on a chip which drives the gpio. I'd use two of your transistors (look up 'Darlington Pair') and feed one with about 40kOhm from the gpi...

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For that type of TFT display technology, wire me $160 million and I'll make a quarter of a million of them for you.

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As the opamp on the right is expected to give 1x the difference between the other two, it really ought to have +- power supplies such as +-9V and not the single supply that you've done, so that its output can go quite negative when that is the right answer. The CMMR of the 741 might cope with diffin...

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I second the proposal to add a 1k pullup, as that would help to make the 3V3 "open relay" state more strongly defined than the internal pullup got (thanks for sharing that line of code).

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If Farnell are still mucking you about by the end of this week then I'll buy an extra one and post it to you for £2 above the Farnell price. (that should cover the postage plus 50p for my efforts). I can receive paypal from your online banking or direct bank-to-bank. UK only. My account is Halifax. ...

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Yeah, that's my point. The ARM left out some of the mistakes prevalent in other commercial cpu designs, so there isn't a funnycircuit for virtualbox to present to the host os. Fast&flawless was the goal of the risc design, and "too slow to use if emulated by something fast&flawless" was the (alleged...

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I wouldn't recommend it. Much of what goes on in virtualbox software is to link contemporary names for lots of useless extra bits in modern hardware to WinXP or other system names for useless extra bits which might or might not have been present in the older hardware and which the commercial operati...

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ok. so 16Vac presumably to the coil of the relay might close it. Does it rattle and hum ? You've not said where you get your 3.3V from (relying on the GPIO internal pullup might be sensible, but might warm up your chip). You might want to check your code to see what pullup resistors are in place. Pl...

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A few years ago I had a look at the connectors from the screen of an Acer laptop to the graphics near to the cpu. They had used a custom flat kapton ribbon, factory-made and not easily changed to a vga or any other recognisable connector which might fit an hdmi adapter to your rPi. My initial reacti...

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As soon as I saw the question with 16V AC in it, I imagine all those 0 to +3.3V rated transistors in your poor rPi getting smoked. Buy yourself a 1x2 inch pinboard on 1/10 inch pitch, a bag of cheap fet or transistors (it does not matter which, as long as their Vgs or Vbe is sufficient), a bag of as...

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"A program in Windows7" does not define whether it does a sequential task (like "compute successive decimal digits of pi", which won't multithread) or a fully parallel task (like compute the number up to 256 and colour of each pixel in an 800x800 px region from [-2,-2] to [+2,+2] of the Mandelbrot S...

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A nasty to watch out for is "updates creep". That is, something which worked last year and still works for some people on the forum just stops working for no hardware reason at your end. The only response is to not buy stuff from people who might withdraw support for known-good hardware. A more spec...

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I'd go Arduino for your application. Reason being that it does less to clutter up your workflow, and has enough in/out lines for the task. You'll need a PC to upload your programs from and debug. You can write your programs to send out a single line of text from an arduino for debug purposes such as...

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The schematic posted above showed blocking capacitors in the audio output line, so it is ac only. I think you'd be better off using one of the GPIO pins. Look up how to program your pi to set one of those. If you can get it to light an LED with 470 ohms in series below then you have a controllable v...

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Just in case some noobies find this page, compiling is not always so difficult. At a terminal prompt on a pi, mkdir hw cd hw nano hello1.c is sufficient to open a nano text editor and type in a hello world in correct ansi c you should find an example online to get that right. CTRL-O (yes) CTRL-X get...

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The following worked for me. At the pi do nothing. It gets its ip from dhcp, from whatever network equipment is connected. Pull out the cable from your DHCP router to the internet as you don't want the mafia to see what you are doing. At your home DHCP router, login using the admin user and password...

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