Puppi Raspberry Pi Hardware
Never had a problem with my $5 HDMI cables from ebay/amazon ...aarf wrote:Unless you are going to sit ontop of your tv the HDMI cables arent cheap either. Suppose you could have a bluetooth mouse and keyboard to compensate. Once again extra cost.
The new TV came with a $60 cable ("free"), and it doesn't make any difference.
It does look cooler, so I use the expensive cable
Cheers
JohnM
Not all of them - there's a bog std. one for a couple of quid in the CPC catalogue if you've got time to search it out. If you're desperate, I can look up the code from past orders and PM it.Last time I checked HDMI to VGA adapters cost more than a PI
Later: sorry, can't find it - must've been a telephone order.
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I'm desperate (in more ways than 7) Please post details Sage.
Did you order one (or try to get a slice?)
Twitter from rpi team - gone silent. They are up to something . . .
. . . I am still excited . . .
I am hoping their site will go up soon and then we will have more info
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/a ... ution.html
http://gizmodo.com/5889245/five-things- ... spberry-pi
Puppy r squared
We iz raspberried . . .
Did you order one (or try to get a slice?)
Twitter from rpi team - gone silent. They are up to something . . .
. . . I am still excited . . .
I am hoping their site will go up soon and then we will have more info
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/a ... ution.html
http://gizmodo.com/5889245/five-things- ... spberry-pi
Puppy r squared
We iz raspberried . . .
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Just got a message from Liz Upton from Rpi headquarters
http://youtu.be/wEZ-NvSKJLI
They are clearly swamped.
some of you have probably seen the snort inducing video for doubters and detractors . . .Mad doesn't even *start* to address what it's like here at the moment. Absolutely can't believe the interest. We've got the Chinese State Broadcasting "news" people visiting this morning. Mental.
Thank you for Spike. I hadn't seen that before, and was reduced to making snorting noises. Lovely stuff.
Up crustacea!
http://youtu.be/wEZ-NvSKJLI
They are clearly swamped.
Cable adapters won't work because of the analogue/digital mismatch.Sage wrote:Not all of them - there's a bog std. one for a couple of quid in the CPC catalogue if you've got time to search it out. If you're desperate, I can look up the code from past orders and PM it.Last time I checked HDMI to VGA adapters cost more than a PI
Later: sorry, can't find it - must've been a telephone order.
I assume that whatever you bought worked for you ... But for a couple of quid ?
If you found a full on converter that works at that price, I am sure people here would be interested in you digging it out
This is the cheapest I could find, but it is still more than thirty quid :
http://cpc.farnell.com/pro-signal/psg03 ... dp/AV19973
No one is going to be desperate, as I suspect no-one will have their PI in their hands for a while
Cheers
JohnM
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Cool! I had an email from Liz a while back too! Glad you are keeping Puppy on their mind!Lobster wrote:Just got a message from Liz Upton from Rpi headquarters
Thank you for Spike. I hadn't seen that before, and was reduced to making snorting noises. Lovely stuff.
Up crustacea!
My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
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"[url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76049l]RacyPy[/url]" puplet on Toshiba Tecra 8200. PIII, 256 MB RAM.
[url=http://raspberrypy.tumblr.com/]RaspberryPy[/url]: Lobster and I blog about the RPi.
I don't know if a simple HDMI to VGA+Audio cable will work as advertised on ebay?
http://tinyurl.com/6ratttx
I'm sure potential Pi owners would be interested
Aitch
http://tinyurl.com/6ratttx
Any care to gamble a few quid to test one of these with an XBox or DVD player with HDMI out, and report back?John M wrote:Cable adapters won't work because of the analogue/digital mismatch.
I'm sure potential Pi owners would be interested
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There's more than analog/digital behind the problem of converting HDMI to VGA. HDMI is set up to be paranoid about someone converting protected content to unprotected, like VGA. Whenever it sees an unprotected output, a message goes back up the chain to convert to standard definition (SD).
I set up a TV (for someone else who watches the idiot box) using a 31" CRT monitor with a VGA input. It will show 1080i, which looks quite nice on a CRT. (The interlaced lines actually fit between those of the alternate field.)
The problem, even when showing off-the-air TV, is that you may have to buy old equipment to display HD via VGA. I got a Sony SAT HD-200 off eBay. This is a very nice box which originally cost around $800. The satellite input is obsolete, but for people like my friend who are upset about paying cable rates the off-the-air tuner is very good.
A side benefit of using an old 31" CRT monitor is that you don't have to worry about thieves doing a smash-and-grab if they see it through the glass door to the patio.
I set up a TV (for someone else who watches the idiot box) using a 31" CRT monitor with a VGA input. It will show 1080i, which looks quite nice on a CRT. (The interlaced lines actually fit between those of the alternate field.)
The problem, even when showing off-the-air TV, is that you may have to buy old equipment to display HD via VGA. I got a Sony SAT HD-200 off eBay. This is a very nice box which originally cost around $800. The satellite input is obsolete, but for people like my friend who are upset about paying cable rates the off-the-air tuner is very good.
A side benefit of using an old 31" CRT monitor is that you don't have to worry about thieves doing a smash-and-grab if they see it through the glass door to the patio.
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Guys beyond hyperspice and other spaces
in a future raspberry dimension populated by Puppys
we are already running . . .
Wheras other distros such as Raspberry Hat and Pi Ian
are already able to test and devevop on actual hardware
we have to develop on hardware we don't have.
It may be impossible but I would remind you that
Barry once created a release version of Puppy which included
OpenOffice in under 100MB when OpenOffice (now LibreOffice)
on its own was 120MB
It may be impossble but let's do it anyway.
I am starting to remind myself of any latent
Python skills I may have
(the language of the RPi Foundation for its educational
prime directive)
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppySchoolProgramming
As soon as a PARM devx exists
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PARM
in this time line, I will be testing my
Fruit machine
Code: Select all
## Random fruit response
# Python Code
# Lobster March 3 2012
import random
verb = ['erratic', 'unbelievable', 'unfortunate', 'inconsequential']
fruit = ['raspberry', 'pomegranite', 'banana', 'grape', 'loganberry']
print "You are an" , random.choice (verb) , random.choice (fruit)
to shutdown all ARM tablets to Ipaid only . . .
Get your Puppy ARM ISO ready.
Tens of thousands of users worlwide will have
boards and be bored with the bug dogs in no time
Puppy Linux
Small Dog. Big Bones.
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Finally got an email from RS!
we will send you further information on your request in the next seven days. Once we receive the boards into stock, they will be allocated on a first-come first-serve basis, in order of when requests were received.
My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
"[url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76049l]RacyPy[/url]" puplet on Toshiba Tecra 8200. PIII, 256 MB RAM.
[url=http://raspberrypy.tumblr.com/]RaspberryPy[/url]: Lobster and I blog about the RPi.
"[url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76049l]RacyPy[/url]" puplet on Toshiba Tecra 8200. PIII, 256 MB RAM.
[url=http://raspberrypy.tumblr.com/]RaspberryPy[/url]: Lobster and I blog about the RPi.
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Finally!
Managed to place an order.
Never been so happy to send money
I will be reciving a Rpi B board in 2058
. . . well OK 58 days - 58 days? They go to the moon and back in less time.
Meanwhile Liz Upton has promised to send me a model A board
thanks to the kind prompts of a US Puppy (also called Ed)
. . . who also offered to send me his B board, if I can not get one
[too kind guys, too kind]
So I am frutified and raspberrian.
So much so I started a blog of my adventures
starting with purchasing fruit coloured accessories
http://raspberrian.tumblr.com/
Fruit is good for you
Raspberry Pi - all of your 5 a day
Finally!
Managed to place an order.
Never been so happy to send money
I will be reciving a Rpi B board in 2058
. . . well OK 58 days - 58 days? They go to the moon and back in less time.
Meanwhile Liz Upton has promised to send me a model A board
thanks to the kind prompts of a US Puppy (also called Ed)
. . . who also offered to send me his B board, if I can not get one
[too kind guys, too kind]
So I am frutified and raspberrian.
So much so I started a blog of my adventures
starting with purchasing fruit coloured accessories
http://raspberrian.tumblr.com/
Fruit is good for you
Raspberry Pi - all of your 5 a day
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Great news. I've also managed to order one. I should get it mid-May.Lobster wrote: Finally!
Managed to place an order.
Never been so happy to send money
My System:Arch-Arm on RPi!
"[url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76049l]RacyPy[/url]" puplet on Toshiba Tecra 8200. PIII, 256 MB RAM.
[url=http://raspberrypy.tumblr.com/]RaspberryPy[/url]: Lobster and I blog about the RPi.
"[url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76049l]RacyPy[/url]" puplet on Toshiba Tecra 8200. PIII, 256 MB RAM.
[url=http://raspberrypy.tumblr.com/]RaspberryPy[/url]: Lobster and I blog about the RPi.
Hello Lobster...
I'll be watching your "Raspberry Pi" adventures with interest.
By-the-way...
Who is the handsome chap in the suit and tie holding the Puppy mug?
With eyes that display the classic indication [upper whites showing] of "Charisma" [excitement, interest in others, etc].
There IS "an art to show the minds' construction in the face".
Face reading.
I'll be watching your "Raspberry Pi" adventures with interest.
By-the-way...
Who is the handsome chap in the suit and tie holding the Puppy mug?
With eyes that display the classic indication [upper whites showing] of "Charisma" [excitement, interest in others, etc].
There IS "an art to show the minds' construction in the face".
Face reading.
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Barry Kauler is the guy in the mug shotWho is the handsome chap in the suit and tie holding the Puppy mug?
http://bkhome.org/bkauler/melbourne-dec-2010.htm
Just done a post on using dd (isn't that a bra size?)
ahem . . . just done a post on using dd to put Debian on an SD card (to brastrap from - eh bootstrap from) . . .
http://raspberrian.tumblr.com/post/1884 ... -to-debian
No hardware and no HDMI cable but software is ready
and wallpaper is ready
Linux Tmxxine is my brand of Puppy
Next step I think is what to strip and add from Debian and how to turn an image on an SD card into an ISO or image file
- so a pseudo Puppy experience will be ready for our Puppy Pi-oneers
The raspberrian website (which I only started yesterday) will be merging with the team python blog
http://teampython.wordpress.com/
Any ideas for a name?
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Great.We are going with RaspberryPy
Added my first post (OK it it is a rehash)
to the combined blog
http://raspberrypy.tumblr.com/
Will take us a while to establish a style . . .
I have only done one combined blog before
antiloquax owns the site and I am a guest blogger.
We will see how it works out and I hope we will gladly consider other guest bloggers.