The Raspberry Pi Thread [6]

Just went and changed them, I hadn't spotted that option. Thanks for pointing it out.

This is my latest Pan Tilt Camera setup. I removed the Servo header from the underside of the Pan Tilt Hat, cut the servo cables to shorten them, and soldered the wires directly to the pads on the Hat. Makes for a nice clean setup. I also soldered on a Pico Captain Resetty button. If you look close in the top down picture you'll see it. I usually shut the camera down and just leave the power supply plugged in. Pressing the button grounds GPIO 3 and causes the Pi to boot up. It's just luck that the ground and SCL pads on the hat are spaced accordingly on the HAT's extra pin breakout.

You might think that the camera ribbon cable is a bit too long, but the next smaller length ends up being too short. IMHO anyway. It lasts a lot longer being that little bit longer. No pinch points, if you know what I mean.

Hey Jack, do you happen to have a Pi 4B your not using?
And if yes, I have a Pi 400 I'll trade you for it. Interested?

alphanumeric said:

Hey Jack, do you happen to have a Pi 4B your not using?
And if yes, I have a Pi 400 I'll trade you for it. Interested?

no, I only have the one Pi4,and i have all ready have a Pi 400

Ok, Was just wondering. My Pi 5 has replaced my Pi 400. And I don't have a good use for the Pi 400 now. If it had been a Pi 4B I'd have swapped it in place of one of my 3B+'s I'm using in some of my Pan Tilt Camera setup's. A lot of the time its a trickle down scenario. Pi 5 replaces Pi 4B, that 4B replaces a 3B, 3B replaces a 3A, etc. The Pi 400 is a bit of an exception. No camera port, built in keyboard, GPIO header at an angle. It's not as versatile as a B model, IMHO.

I have two 1.54" SPI LCD breakouts on mine. They display CPU info, clock speed, CPU temp, etc. And a RTC and trackball breakouts. At some point I'll likely move them over to my Pi 5. It's not at the top of my list of things to do though. The Pi 400 may go back into service, I'm short on monitors at the moment though.

Don't worry about it Jack. I'll pick up another Pi 4 at some point. The camera works fine with a 3B, a 4B will just get me a few more frames a second in my Video Feed. I just figured I'd see what you had on hand first. You had talked about selling some of you Pi stuff. I forgot that you already had a Pi 400. They say your memory is the first thing to go, I forget what the second thing was?

Spoiled, I am. My RGB USB HID keypad decided not to work this morning? I had to actually mouse over to the icons in the tray to launch things. The horror!!

Had to reload Circuit Python, and copy the USB Hid library etc back onto it's PICO. I'm not all that impressed with Circuit Python, if I'm honest. The big wrinkle is it totally messes with any other Pico trying to connect in Boot Mode. I have to unplug it if I want to flash anther Pico with a UF2 file. PITA