The Raspberry Pi Thread [4]


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       #981

    I'm really hoping my Pimorni order comes today so I can play with it over the weekend. The Royal mail "International" tracking is useless once it leaves the UK. so I have no idea where in Canada it currently is. =(
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       #982

    alphanumeric said:
    While its still not full gigabit speed wise, 300mb is 3 times the 100mb you get with any other Pi. Nice boost in speed. It still meets all the other specs for gigabit ethernet. You can go from device to device with out having to use crossover network cable, etc. Its a nice step forward from the 3B.
    Yeah, I was aware of the maximum speed it is capable of. But just like you said, it is still a nice upgrade. The current Pi2 I am using for Libreelec has been running for the past 2 years on a case without ventilation. But I will definitely install heatsink on the B+.
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    I have a heatsink on just about every Pi I own. I get told over and over on the Pi Foundation forums the Pi doesn't need one. I do it anyway as I like how it looks and it can't hurt anything having one on there. IMHO it will help if its a 3B or 3B+. Cooler is better especially for the Pi's SOC / CPU. What do they cost, like a buck. I ordered a dozen or so on one order a while back. When I'm almost out I'll order a few more. I use the tall ones on 3B's and the thinner ones on my Zero's. You can still get a Zero in the official case with the thin / low heatsink on it.

    My Pimoroni order just arrived.
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       #984

    alphanumeric said:

    My Pimoroni order just arrived.
    Have fun!!
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       #985

    It's parts for several projects.
    A track set for my outdoor rover. It converts it from wheel drive to track drive. https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/p...t=933151014922
    A Pi Zero W with no header for my bird camera. I want to put it in the official Zero case. You can't use that camera cover if the Pi has a male header on it.
    An and LED shim I want to add to my portable weather clock. https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/led-shim I'm going to mount it on this, https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/pico-hat-hacker and then bolt that to the back of the black diffusor that's already there. It's going to replace the 4 10mm LEDS I have in there now. The Red, Yellow, Green and Blue ones.
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    Got my tracks mounted to my Pimoroni loot box. I used two of the metal corner brackets from my open beam stuff to mount the idler wheels. They are triangle shape and worked out really well. Will post some pics when I get a chance. Also got the electronics chassis (mini black hat hack3r) mounted in the loot box. The Pi Zero will be outside facing forward. I cut a slot for the GPIO header. The motors are mounted, still have to wire them up. Battery isn't installed yet either. That's for another day I think? Nerck and back are getting sore.
    Also hooked up my LED shim to my bread board rig and ran some of the examples. Near as I can tell all the LEDs work. That's about as far as I got. It's mounted to the pico hat hacker board and I have my male headers in place to hook it up. I'm going to tinker with my code on my bread board rig first. I think this is going to take me a while. Pimoroni don't have the function list for it up yet. I'll have to give Phil a nudge I guess. Trying to figure it out just from the examples makes my head hurt, lol.
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    good days work
    alphanumeric said:
    trying to figure it out just from the examples makes my head hurt, lol.
    It all make my head hurt !
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       #988

    Just found my camera.
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    looking good for sure ..
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    Playing with my LED Shim at the moment. Just hooked up my BMP180 to use as a test temperature source, or test barometric pressure source. I'll be showing one of the other on the LED shim. That's my plan anyway. Adafruit now has their own python library for it. I had to hunt one up on GitHub the last time I used it. Ran the test python file and got temp and pressure readings. =)
    My Weather clock, the one I want to use this on, is all enclosed and headless. PITA to take apart to tinker with. So I'm going to tinker with it on my bread board rig instead. How weird is that, actually using it for what I built it for? lol. Having the BMP180 helps big time. I think that was one of the first breakout boards I bought. Its been used, unused, used unused, etc. Its come in real handy.
    Once I have it working the way I want it "should" be a simple edit to replace the BMP180 with the BME680. Making it do what I want first is going to be the part.
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