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#46 Post by JohnMurga »

Sage wrote:
Last time I checked HDMI to VGA adapters cost more than a PI
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.
Later: sorry, can't find it - must've been a telephone order.
Cable adapters won't work because of the analogue/digital mismatch.
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 :-(

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#47 Post by antiloquax »

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!
:D :D Cool! I had an email from Liz a while back too! Glad you are keeping Puppy on their mind!
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#48 Post by Aitch »

I don't know if a simple HDMI to VGA+Audio cable will work as advertised on ebay?

http://tinyurl.com/6ratttx
John M wrote:Cable adapters won't work because of the analogue/digital mismatch.
Any care to gamble a few quid to test one of these with an XBox or DVD player with HDMI out, and report back?

I'm sure potential Pi owners would be interested

Aitch :)

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#49 Post by prehistoric »

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.

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#50 Post by Lobster »

Image
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. :shock:

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. :lol:

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

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## 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)
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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

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#52 Post by antiloquax »

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.
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#53 Post by scsijon »

Lobster wrote:Image
Aw Lobster, and I thought you'd pick to do it the other-way around, with red puppy's curled around each other instead of individual seeds.

8)

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#54 Post by Lobster »

antiloquax, Fellow Puppys, Barryk, Raspberrians of all flavours,

Finally!
Managed to place an order. :D
Never been so happy to send money 8)

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. :roll:

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
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#55 Post by antiloquax »

Lobster wrote: Finally!
Managed to place an order. :D
Never been so happy to send money 8)
Great news. I've also managed to order one. I should get it mid-May.
:D
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#56 Post by Sylvander »

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.

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#57 Post by Lobster »

Who is the handsome chap in the suit and tie holding the Puppy mug?
Barry Kauler is the guy in the mug shot :)
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
Image
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 8)

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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#58 Post by antiloquax »

We are going with RaspberryPy.

:D
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#59 Post by Lobster »

We are going with RaspberryPy
Great.
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.
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#60 Post by Pence »

Still waiting for my chance to order one, but I did find a usb to micro usb cable, micro usb phone charger and a usb keyboard with trackball. Very cheap at our town's SPCA thrift store.

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Ordering

#61 Post by raffy »

Discussion about ordering is becoming intense here:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/764#comments

and I inserted a URL to help survey the Raspberry Pi ordering problems (example - my country was not in Farnell's shipping routes! Will have to add that this evening.)
http://raspisoft.org/showthread.php?tid=1
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#62 Post by James C »

I've already ordered my Raspberry Pi but at the moment my expected shipping date is June 14.Guess I should have time to get all the accessories together. :lol:

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delay due to wrong part

#63 Post by raffy »

There will be some delay in shipping the RPi because of the manufacturer's use of a wrong ethernet connector:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/781
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Has anyone got one of these RPi's yet

#64 Post by askanthea »

I've registered the interest, not ordered yet as the lead time looks to be quite long -

goona be fun to play with :-)

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#65 Post by Lobster »

We have another operating system (Fedora) available
This is the official recommended distro for the Rpi
http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/805

I used 3 commands to install it
You can see them mashed in the following raw and untested script
While I am writing to my SD card - waiting for Rpi may take a bit longer . . . :D
Importantly the Fedora image has drivers for the Broadcom videocore GPU chip
Anyway if you wish to improve the script feel free
Hope it works :?

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#! /bin/bash
# raw download, decompress and install onto SD, Fedora for Rpi from Puppy 
# Lobster March 2011
#
# ACTUNG - this is a raw and powerful script DATA CAN BE LOST
# Run the script from where you want to decompress and install image to be
# when you insert your reader make sure it is sdc1 (or change)
# WARNING - this is a raw and powerful script DATA CAN BE LOST

# wget file
wget http://files.velocix.com/c1410/images/fedora/14/r1-06-03-2012/raspberrypi-fedora-remix-14-r1.img.gz

# decompress file
gzip -d raspberrypi-fedora-remix-14-r1.img.gz

# load file onto sd card
dd bs=1M if=raspberrypi-fedora-remix-14-r1.img of=/dev/sdc1
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