Switches in general don't have dedicated positive and negative ends - they're just bits of bent metal that touch when you press it, so either way round is good. As for the rest, I've just written a 50-page document explaining in detail the whys and wherefores about connecting a switch to the Pi. Bu...

I'm sure you didn't mean it, but it seems three of the switches at the right connect the power rails to ground! I've taken the liberty of cutting the important bit: fritzing-cut.png Thanks :-) I'm new to electronics. So which pins on the switch are positive and negative and where should each pin go...

Hey guys :-) I've had this really cool idea to create a games controller for my Raspberry Pi using the Adafruit Pi Cobbler so that I can use it for when I write games. I've created a project in a program called Fritzing which allows you to create virtual breadboards. Please can you take a look at th...

I had the same problem with my pi. It turns out that the partition was too small for the pi to boot.
Hope this helped.

pluggy wrote:2 problems, any video codec worth anything at all is already compressed up to the hilt and zipping it is likely to increase its size, not decrease it. No 2, pulling things out of a zip archive in real time takes a lot of CPU horsepower the Pi doesn't have.

Why would it increase file size?

I have raspbmc loaded on my Raspberry Pi Model B, with a 16GB flash drive. I don't have the options to use cloud storage, a media server or external hard drive. I only have the memory on my SD card. I want to put my movies on it but I'm a little stretched for space. Then I thought: Would it be possi...