The Raspberry Pi Thread [4]

alphanumeric · 15 Dec 2017

caperjack said:

its early and i didn't sleep well last night ,

That's how I felt when I posted it, lol. Hadn't even finished my first cup of coffee.

alphanumeric · 15 Dec 2017

If you go to the link you posted, then go to button shim, https://github.com/pimoroni/button-shim down at the bottom of the page is a link to Function reference - http://docs.pimoroni.com/buttonshim/
I loped off the /buttonshim/ part to get just the http://docs.pimoroni.com/ just to see what else was there. But then button shim isn't in the list? I was helping somebody with a button shim on Pimoroni. Now looking for other similar pages for the hardware I have. I don't remember seeing this stuff before? memory isn't what it used to be though.

I saved you link, will come in handy I'm sure.

caperjack · 15 Dec 2017

the stuff in your first link is great stuff for sure ,but I still need to learn Python for any of it to mean much to me .. and that's my issue with the Pi ,Learning !!! i suck as a student and even more as Teacher

alphanumeric · 15 Dec 2017

There are other ways to code, not sure if they are any easier though. I was looking at the different ways to do it with the Micro Bit. The block style ones look pretty easy. Better suited for kids anyway. It fills in a lot of the blanks for you. I'm leaning towards Micro python myself though. Will see when I get it I guess.

For the Pi, python seems to be prevalent. Most of the libraries and code are python. That's why I ended up using python. I'm no expert but getting a lot better at it the more I use it. Don't take this the wrong way, but you learn a lot more if you do your own code versus just running what somebody else coded. I ~~steal~~ um borrow a lot of code from examples etc, but almost always change it a lot before I get what I want to happen.

caperjack · 15 Dec 2017

nope ,wont take it the wrong way ,you are 100% correct ,I just need to take the time to learn, i first need to focus on one project, one addon board at a time ,right now i tinker with different ones till i hit a wall .then tinker with another one ,ect ect ,, in the new year i'm going to do more ,to learn more basic Pi projects that lead to bigger projects ... if any of that makes sense ..

alphanumeric said:

There are other ways to code, not sure if they are any easier though. I was looking at the different ways to do it with the Micro Bit. The block style ones look pretty easy. Better suited for kids anyway. It fills in a lot of the blanks for you. I'm leaning towards Micro python myself though. Will see when I get it I guess.

For the Pi, python seems to be prevalent. Most of the libraries and code are python. That's why I ended up using python. I'm no expert but getting a lot better at it the more I use it. Don't take this the wrong way, but you learn a lot more if you do your own code versus just running what somebody else coded. I ~~steal~~ um borrow a lot of code from examples etc, but almost always change it a lot before I get what I want to happen.

alphanumeric · 15 Dec 2017

Yeah, I think if you follow it through and get one fully the way you want. The next one will be all that much easier. Me, I never really finish anything, I keep changing things or adding functions etc.

caperjack · 15 Dec 2017

If i don't do it everyday i forget what i did the days before ...i was like that in school too,i only studied a few nights before the exam..

alphanumeric said:

Yeah, I think if you follow it through and get one fully the way you want. The next one will be all that much easier. Me, I never really finish anything, I keep changing things or adding functions etc.

alphanumeric · 16 Dec 2017

I'm starting to have to make a lot of crib notes so I don't forget things. My Raspberry Pi documents folder is cluttered with all kinds of little tidbits of info.

caperjack · 16 Dec 2017

yeah,i have a notebook too ,it will get more use in the future..

alphanumeric said:

I'm starting to have to make a lot of crib notes so I don't forget things. My Raspberry Pi documents folder is cluttered with all kinds of little tidbits of info.

alphanumeric · 17 Dec 2017

Started playing with that microstacks stuff you gave me Jack. Didn't get very far though, ran the sudo apt-get install python3-microstacknode and got an unable to locate package message. GPS module is teasing by blinking that it has a fix. Manually setting it up for UART instead of USB is a long and painful procedure. If I go that route I may as well just plug my GPS module in. I'd be following the Adafruit guide for that module and not knowing if it would work for the Microstacks one? That may end up being a project for another day. May change tracks and plug that audio board in and play with that instead.