The Raspberry Pi Thread [4]

caperjack · 13 Apr 2019

yeah i have the tall pibow one . yeah im aware of the difference with the kodi flirc case

alphanumeric said:

All the Coupe Pibows now have a cutout for a heatsink. And vent holes in the bottom layer. Plus you can now get this, https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/p...nt=17839278663
I'm guessing you have the full size tall Pibow? Not sure why they don't put more vent holes in those? I see camera cable and display cable cutouts. No real need for a CPU cutout but some vent holes would be nice. Nothing a dremel won't fix though.
Be careful with those aluminum built in heatsink cases. The spacing is different between the 3B and 3B+. You could break the Pi as a result. The 3B+ has a heat spreader on the SOC / CPU. That makes it higher / taller than the one on the 3B.

alphanumeric · 15 Apr 2019

My Raspberry Pi Crickit Hat is on the way, or will be very shortly. Just got the order confirmed e-mail. I needed a LIPO and there were a few other things I wanted that I can't get at Pimoroni. Pimoroni can't ship LIPO batteries by AIR to North America so they just won't ship them here.

caperjack · 15 Apr 2019

interesting looking board ,enjoy , to honest I'm loosing interest ,,but that's normal for me ,i hit a wall and i quit ,story of my life ..i will continue with what i have ,and try and make the activity board, but will not be buying anything new for now anyway ...

alphanumeric said:

My Raspberry Pi Crickit Hat is on the way, or will be very shortly. Just got the order confirmed e-mail. I needed a LIPO and there were a few other things I wanted that I can't get at Pimoroni. Pimoroni can't ship LIPO batteries by AIR to North America so they just won't ship them here.

alphanumeric · 15 Apr 2019

Just got the order has shipped e mail. Its been off and on for me lately. Do a bit then take a few days off. The weather has a lot to do with it. It's hard to get motivated when its wet and gloomy and I'm sore and achy. I expect to get back into things once I get my gazebo back up and I can spend some time out in the fresh air. The crickit hat should be able to do most of what I wanted to do with the Google AIY kit. Minus the voice commands bit and the excess Google account baggage. I may have another go at the AIY too. I swapped in one of my now spare 3B's. I'll use a 3A+ or 3B+ with the crickit hat. I was asked to walk my friends dog for her while she's away again so I used that bit of extra cash to make this purchase.

caperjack · 16 Apr 2019

yeah,i need a boot in the ass,i just sit and watch tv most days,hoping warmer days will help ..

alphanumeric said:

Just got the order has shipped e mail. Its been off and on for me lately. Do a bit then take a few days off. The weather has a lot to do with it. It's hard to get motivated when its wet and gloomy and I'm sore and achy. I expect to get back into things once I get my gazebo back up and I can spend some time out in the fresh air. The crickit hat should be able to do most of what I wanted to do with the Google AIY kit. Minus the voice commands bit and the excess Google account baggage. I may have another go at the AIY too. I swapped in one of my now spare 3B's. I'll use a 3A+ or 3B+ with the crickit hat. I was asked to walk my friends dog for her while she's away again so I used that bit of extra cash to make this purchase.

alphanumeric · 16 Apr 2019

My Adafruit order should be here by the end of the week. I had to take the more expensive shipping option, likely because of the LIPO battery. They were saying expected delivery Thursday the 18th. I will be tinkering with some of it over the weekend if it does arrive by Friday. I prepaid the duties on it, its just easier as they are going to ask for it anyway when I sign for it.
I bought some Arduino stuff too. Another one of those 9V power supplies and a stand for a mini solderless breadboard. You mount the Arduino beside the breadboard with nuts and bolts. I have a spare Uno just for that now.
Grabbed a couple of 16 gig Sandisk cards on sale at the Source today. Almost half price 15 bucks each. I bought 2. Had to go to the Mayflower Mall anyway so I went in just in case they were on sale.

caperjack · 16 Apr 2019

interesting stuff. do you know when the Source closing , just got my Income tax refund in the mail ......i need most or more even for some Home repairs and septic tank clean out ...would like to buy 1 Pi related item that suites me, and my knowledge level ,,any ideas ?? I was thinking maybe one of these[or something like it ] for Grandson and Me to play with, i could see him loading building blocks into his truck ..he's only 3 but very smart ..got his own Leapfrog tablet and can use it for picking colors and numbers and such .. https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/m...spberry-pi-kit

alphanumeric said:

My Adafruit order should be here by the end of the week. I had to take the more expensive shipping option, likely because of the LIPO battery. They were saying expected delivery Thursday the 18th. I will be tinkering with some of it over the weekend if it does arrive by Friday. I prepaid the duties on it, its just easier as they are going to ask for it anyway when I sign for it.
I bought some Arduino stuff too. Another one of those 9V power supplies and a stand for a mini solderless breadboard. You mount the Arduino beside the breadboard with nuts and bolts. I have a spare Uno just for that now.
Grabbed a couple of 16 gig Sandisk cards on sale at the Source today. Almost half price 15 bucks each. I bought 2. Had to go to the Mayflower Mall anyway so I went in just in case they were on sale.

alphanumeric · 16 Apr 2019

The Source in the little strip mall in town here is already gone. Sign and all. I was going to look in there for a deal on SD cards the other day. So its all of them that are going. I fgured it was just that store that went under.

I was looking at that, should be good for cowardination etc. Colors etc too. Some assembly required and "maybe" some coding. I didn't get as far as looking at the software side of it. Might be all done for you as its Kitronics.
You'll also need a Raspberry Pi and power supply.

caperjack · 16 Apr 2019

i'll have a closer look at the Arm , the north sydney Source closed n January ...This MeArm link has lots of info http://learn.mearm.com/docs/getting-...-the-mearm-pi/

alphanumeric said:

The Source in the little strip mall in town here is already gone. Sign and all. I was going to look in there for a deal on SD cards the other day. So its all of them that are going. I figured it was just that store that went under.

I was looking at that, should be good for cowardination etc. Colors etc too. Some assembly required and "maybe" some coding. I didn't get as far as looking at the software side of it. Might be all done for you as its Kitronics.
You'll also need a Raspberry Pi and power supply.

alphanumeric · 17 Apr 2019

One advatage to a kit like that is, its all there. Except for your Raspberry Pi and power supply. No needing to make something else or modify something with a drill or dremel etc. And you just follow the instrutions. Like building Ikea furniture, sort of kind of.

They show a Pi Zero in the picture. It looks like 4 servos are used in total. And they use two to move the arm back and forth. That means at least two running at the same time at times.

I think I'd go with the official Pi power supply, its 5.1V and 2.5A.