The Raspberry Pi Thread [2]

caperjack said:

came across this picture of the case you bought ,I don't think you will need to dremel the case

I wish they would show it with the cover that has the square cutout on it. That's the part I'm wondering about. To get access to the joystick on the sense hat.

Just came in from working on my snow blower. There were two bolts that their heads broke off of. I drilled them out and tried easy outs on them and got nowhere. Actually broke one of the easy outs off in the drilled hole. Had to use vise grips on the back side/inside to turn what was left out. I had to pull a c clip off and a bunch of hardware off of the axel to get at one of the broken bolts. All the easy steer gears etc. My back is broken now from all the bending and contortions to get at stuff. All fixed now though, whew. Hopefully I won't have to do that again anytime soon.

alphanumeric said:

I wish they would show it with the cover that has the square cutout on it. That's the part I'm wondering about. To get access to the joystick on the sense hat.

Just came in from working on my snow blower. There were two bolts that their heads broke off of. I drilled them out and tried easy outs on them and got nowhere. Actually broke one of the easy outs off in the drilled hole. Had to use vise grips on the back side/inside to turn what was left out. I had to pull a c clip off and a bunch of hardware off of the axel to get at one of the broken bolts. All the easy steer gears etc. My back is broken now from all the bending and contortions to get at stuff. All fixed now though, whew. Hopefully I won't have to do that again anytime soon.

that's right its 3 pieces, missed that , good job on the snowblower.
the sense pi's green board is exact same size in the width as the Raspberry Pi's ,the joy-stick will be close
I didn't get the 4 screws and standoffs's with mine

caperjack said:

that's right its 3 pieces, missed that , good job on the snowblower.
the sense pi's green board is exact same size in the width as the Raspberry Pi's ,the joy-stick will be close
I didn't get the 4 screws and standoffs's with mine

I have some standoffs from previous order, they aren't the 16 mm ones though, I think they are 11 mm. They come with the nuts but no screws? I had some black ones left over from a laptop tear down. I've been using those. Hopefully the 11mm are long enough. If not I'll order some 16 mm with my next order. I think that case is 5 pieces actually, The base, 2 side pieces and 2 covers, one solid and one with a square window in it.

I have my new Pi up and running. Only problem so far is I can't find a way to go to full screen.
If I click on the box in the upper right, it makes the screen smaller.
How do I make it full size ?
I'm using Raspbian OS.

COMPUTIAC said:

Its OK, thanks for the info.
I did find a solution and was just going to post it when I spotted your response.

Had to go into a terminal and enter: sudo raspi-config > Advanced options > Overscan > Disable.
Did a reboot and like magic its full screen and set to the correct resolution.

You can do it with a config.txt edit too, sudo nano /boot/config.txt You add or remove the # at the start of the appropriate line. Running raspi-config will make changes to that file. That file is in a sense, the Pi's BIOS settings. It's read even before the display turns on. Sometimes you have to actually enter the screen resolution manually. I had to do it that way for the 5 inch touch screen I sold Jack. Just disabling overscan isn't enough with that screen. I don't think it is anyway.

If your running Jessie the raspi-config should be in the start menu. Some of the settings are there, not sure if all of them are though. In Wheezy, it pops up on first boot, after that you have to do the sudo raspi-config though to run it a second, or third time.

I'm guessing your connected to a TV or PC monitor. Anyway, welcome officially to the Pi users club. Now that you have it up and running.

COMPUTIAC said:

Thanks for the info and the Official welcome Alpha. I'm using Raspbian OS and a HP 23" LED monitor.

Raspi-config was not in the start menu, I had to open a terminal to find it.

Is there any list of common command's available ?
Its kinda time wasting to search for each one as the need for something come's up.

If it's not in the Menu your likely running Raspbian Wheezy. It's not called raspi-config, don't remember exactly what its called, configuration or something. Jack posted a link of common commands at one time. Might have been in the original thread. I thought I had bookmarked it but can't find it at the moment. Have you used Linux before? If no, welcome to the club of first timers. A lot of stuff is Pi specific, especially in the tutorials that I've been using. Raspbian is I believe, a special port of Debian Linux. One thing you may want to do is a sudo apt-get update, then a sudo apt-get upgrade Run from a terminal window. It's the equivalent to running Windows update. The upgrade will as far as I know update the firmware on your PI to the current version. I usually run the upgrade once when I get a new Pi. The update I run every once in a while, if instructed to in a tutorial. There is no need to run them frequently, it can actually undo some custom mods you may have done. I'm still trying to wrap my head around what it actually does.