The Raspberry Pi Thread [5]

caperjack · 19 Jul 2019

i haven touched the install on my sense hat, actually not really sure what it running . i did create a sd card that for birthdays, the led create a flickering candle and you blow on the hat and it goes to smoke ,, ,use it for the kids ,just change the name of who's birthday, i know i post it before but here it is again , YouTube

alphanumeric · 19 Jul 2019

Found that Sense Hat thread, looks like its a buster issue.
Buster won't boot headless with the Sense Hat attached - Raspberry Pi Forums

strollin · 19 Jul 2019

caperjack said:

i retired last Aug,and if some company offer me a job ,it's

to them ,,,

Even if that job paid more than you had ever earned in the past? I mean to say that the company had to make it worth my while to come back out of retirement!

caperjack · 19 Jul 2019

oh im sure your line of work is much different than mine, and i would go back for more money ,but my line of work is labouring ain't no one going to offer me more ,, enjoy the new job

strollin said:

Even if that job paid more than you had ever earned in the past? I mean to say that the company had to make it worth my while to come back out of retirement!

caperjack · 19 Jul 2019

for no good reason i just setup pi to boot to usb device ...went well ,.a bit slow doing things ,,i was using a old laptop spin hdd...I do have a 120gb ssd hdd,that has files stored on it so im moving them to another hdd ,and will set pi to boot to the SSD see if its any quicker than the spin hdd,,,just playing around instead of mowing grass in the heat ..

caperjack · 19 Jul 2019

up grade that old hifi to bluetooth Turn your old speakers or Hi-Fi into Bluetooth receivers with a Raspberry Pi and this step-by-step guide

alphanumeric · 19 Jul 2019

caperjack said:

for no good reason i just setup pi to boot to usb device ...went well ,.a bit slow doing things ,,i was using a old laptop spin hdd...I do have a 120gb ssd hdd,that has files stored on it so im moving them to another hdd ,and will set pi to boot to the SSD see if its any quicker than the spin hdd,,,just playing around instead of mowing grass in the heat ..

Performance should be a lot better on a Pi 4, once they enable USB boot on it. Especially an SSD connected via USB 3. I have a 64 gig Kingston Hyper X USB 3 thumb drive I'm going to setup as boot on a Pi 4. May have to wait a couple of months for USB Boot to get finalized, from what I'm reading on the Pi forum though. They jumped the gun and released early, now they are playing catchup software wise.

EDIT: Or do it the old way and boot from the Micro SD card but run everything from the thumb drive.

alphanumeric · 19 Jul 2019

caperjack said:

up grade that old hifi to bluetooth Turn your old speakers or Hi-Fi into Bluetooth receivers with a Raspberry Pi and this step-by-step guide

I think you can do something similar with the Pirate Radio via Airplay? Might even be able to do what's in that link on a pirate radio. Just use the phat beat / SPI as your audio instead of analog audio.

caperjack · 19 Jul 2019

yeah it should be really nice on the Pi4 , i just booted up the 120 kingston ssd drive ,seems quicker than the old laptops spin drive

alphanumeric said:

Performance should be a lot better on a Pi 4, once they enable USB boot on it. Especially an SSD connected via USB 3. I have a 64 gig Kingston Hyper X USB 3 thumb drive I'm going to setup as boot on a Pi 4. May have to wait a couple of months for USB Boot to get finalized, from what I'm reading on the Pi forum though. They jumped the gun and released early, now they are playing catchup software wise.

alphanumeric · 19 Jul 2019

caperjack said:

yeah it should be really nice on the Pi4 , i just booted up the 120 kingston ssd drive ,seems quicker than the old laptops spin drive

One issue with laptop drives, the spinners usually only run at 5400 RPM. Instead of the 7200 RPM that full sized desktop drives run at. You really notice the difference.