Raspberry Pi Catch-All

I'm looking forward to that bump in RAM. Should improve things a ton.

So is the only way to turn on the pi after shutdown is by pulling the power plug and inserting it again?

I think your other options are either wake on lan, or installing a reboot switch via the GPIO pins.

on the pi 3 i guess it's a header pin marked RUN. Jumping that will cause a reset. Which means you could make a simple push button switch for it.

That's how I do it. Of course we could hook a dedicated power strip or whatever to it, but, yeah, it's suboptimal. There are ways to attach a switch to the open header, which I guess is the promise of the Pi: hackability. (That was just a result from a web search; there could be/likely are better approaches.)

1 option is something like this. Not ideal but maybe better than unplugging/plugging the Pi.

https://www.amazon.com/Belkin-Conser...

or a micro usb cable with switch? but this option would require you to get a different type of power supply then you already have most likely

https://www.amazon.com/JBtek-Raspber...

Good show.

Only had a few minor problems. I was confused by the case because it has a gap in the top of it for airflow. I had to watch a few videos until one mentioned the gap and its purpose.

My sd card wasn't formated correctly so I had to download a app to format it to fat32. This was my big sd card not the 32gb card it came with.

My current problem is partitioning my sd card to different sizes. BerryBoot doesn't give you a option to pick partition sizes. I know how to get around this though. I'm going to make another OS on the original 32gb sd card with gparted on it and use that to resize the partitions.

Other than that everything was easy.

Nice! I know I changed partition sizes but I don't remember how I did it. I guess I must have done it outside of Berryboot if it doesn't support it. Maybe after I installed Ubuntu I did it through gparted.

Raspberry PI Zero W was just released a few days ago. Seems to be the same as the old zero but with added wifi and bluetooth. Also the price is the same.

Also they have announced it will be the last bit of new hardware for a few years. They are going to focus on software development.

I guess I can buy my 2nd Pi3 now that there is no reason to wait for the 4 anytime soon.

Also the price is the same.

The Zero W is $10, where the Zero is $5.

Shame the rumors of a Pi 4 haven't panned out. Those rumors from early this month were very appealing.

edit: last month, it's March now.

If you are looking for something with a bit more power there is the Tinker Board from ASUS, but it has some software issues last time I checked. About twice the price of a Pi.

There is also the LattePanda which runs a full version of Windows 10. Much more expensive than a Pi though.

I have seen some reviews on the tinker board. Seems like Asus isn't supporting it like they should which is the cause of most of the problems with it.

Just bought another pi. I plan to use it practice soldering and building stuff. I'm leaning toward making a portable gaming console. I also have some other ideas but they don't require me learning anything new.

This is the project I'm thinking of going with.
Pi Project

Came across this today while netrambling. It's a project to create a portable Raspberry Pi access point. The post title suggests something about VPN and Tor implementations but they're left for later and nonexistent posts. Still thought it was interesting as maybe the remainder components are addressed in the source posts and articles.

It's from 2015 so there's almost certainly some dated information but hopefully nothing that isn't straightforward and better today.

I knew there'd be a thread somewhere...

Bit of advice if that's cool and assume I know nothing!

The only computer in our house is my work mac.

My 6 year old has expressed an interest in making games and he'll start using Scratch next year at school I believe.

Am thinking of putting together a Pi for his educational usage, Scratch and maybe a spot of Minecraft.

Also to keep it simple and because it looks like it leads you by the hand when it comes to the Pi for kids, is a Kano kit worth the extra expense or would I be better off saving my pennies and assembling / downloading all the bits myself? Only ask because there's a 20% off Kano kits atm, well till tomorrow.

Mac is pretty much the only OS I've used for 20+ years, so wouldn't do me any harm to learn something new either

Cheers.

So it looks like I'm going to be getting a Pi 3 w/Wifi for free as part of a night class I'm taking. I'll have a few weeks to just mess around with it and then have to do some sort of group project that is information security related.

I am reading through some "Getting Started" books/pdfs now. Does anyone have recommendations on must-have accessories and/or fun projects to mess with?

I will probably try to setup a retropie with my XBox Controller, as it seems relatively straightforward and I miss my Ataris from childhood. I might try to set it up as a wifi cracker/sniffer. Anything else?

Berryboot makes installing and multi-booting the various OSes, including Retro Pie, super easy. I'm not positive but pretty sure Retro Pie detects the 360 controller, and wireless dongle, without any setup. It's been a while so I can't fully confirm.

They make pretty kickass little DHCP/DNS servers for a network, only pulling down a few watts. Most consumer-level firewalls offer primitive versions of those services with very little configurability; running it yourself on a Linux distro lets you take total control and do anything you want. Implementing DNS filtering, for instance, is trivial when running through a Pi. (just like with any other Linux box.)

NEW Raspberry Pi 3 b Plus is out now.

Nice!

Going to make a small media server with the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.
Any good links for that or hints and tips?

Sparhawk wrote:

Going to make a small media server with the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.
Any good links for that or hints and tips?

I haven't actually played with it, but I did buy this
http://www.microcenter.com/product/4...

RolandofGilead wrote:
Sparhawk wrote:

Going to make a small media server with the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.
Any good links for that or hints and tips?

I haven't actually played with it, but I did buy this
http://www.microcenter.com/product/4...

That looks good too

Just wondering if anyone here can help me to find a solution.

I have been busy trying to figure out how a RPi works. Got the Wi-Fi running and have started up some old games (point and click because i do not have a controller yet).

I added a cheap 3.5 inch touch screen display to it which works fine for everything else but not for the games. The games start up as if the game is alot bigger.

Has someone here added such a screen to his RPi and got it to work? I would be interested to hear some tips or links. Preferably in English or Dutch, but German should be fine too.

I will keep trying to find something on my own as well

SparrowOne wrote:

Just wondering if anyone here can help me to find a solution.

I have been busy trying to figure out how a RPi works. Got the Wi-Fi running and have started up some old games (point and click because i do not have a controller yet).

I added a cheap 3.5 inch touch screen display to it which works fine for everything else but not for the games. The games start up as if the game is alot bigger.

Has someone here added such a screen to his RPi and got it to work? I would be interested to hear some tips or links. Preferably in English or Dutch, but German should be fine too.

I will keep trying to find something on my own as well

Hey, a fellow Dutchie
Am curious how it will work out with the screen. Don't have any advice.
Just building a Home Theatre thingy with it

What's the resolution of the 3.5 inch screen? You would need to make sure that the game you are playing can match the resolution. I'm just guessing.

Might want to link to the screen you're using so we can see what you're working with.

I added a cheap 3.5 inch touch screen display to it

Maybe it's something that works as a console, not as a video device? That is, it may be connected as a serial terminal, and managing its own display, rather than being driven by the video port. (this is something that Unixes have done for forty years, and all the code to handle this is still in modern systems.) How does it connect to the Pi?

As astralplaydoh says, it could also just be low resolution, and the games only show a small part of their playfield because that's all there's room for.

If you're seeing graphics and they're going at full speed, even if they're not all there, then it's not a serial terminal, and it's probably just low res.

Malor wrote:
I added a cheap 3.5 inch touch screen display to it

Maybe it's something that works as a console, not as a video device? That is, it may be connected as a serial terminal, and managing its own display, rather than being driven by the video port. (this is something that Unixes have done for forty years, and all the code to handle this is still in modern systems.) How does it connect to the Pi?

As astralplaydoh says, it could also just be low resolution, and the games only show a small part of their playfield because that's all there's room for.

If you're seeing graphics and they're going at full speed, even if they're not all there, then it's not a serial terminal, and it's probably just low res.

Yes, you are right: I see the game, but only a part of it. I can scroll in the game to the other side of the screen. It is just the window that is too large.

The screen is no longer sold, but this is the link: Chinese 3.5 screen. It is simply added to the GPIO.

To make the screen work I used this code:

sudo su
sudo git clone https://github.com/goodtft/LCD-show
cd LCD-show
chmod +x LCD35-show
./LCD35-show

followed this website as information (sorry, mainly in Dutch, but code should be the same): Raspberry Tips website

Was hoping to add ScumVM to the Rpi, but when I tried the only game already available I noticed this problem. After that I tried several websites and tips, but nothing worked.