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Testing USB Serial TTL adapters
A program, SerialTester, a guide and test results. Also updated Prolific PL2303HXA driver misery solution.
Raspberrry Pi 400, first steps
First steps with the Raspberry Pi 400, first impressions November 2, 2020. My birthday! Early, checking twitter. Eben Upton says good morning. ...3.5 Inch RPi Display Touch - XPT2046 (480x320) - Install
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=178443&p=1699671&hilit=xpt2046#p1699671How to install Lazarus 2.0.10 & FPC 3.2.0 on Manjaro 20.06 with Raspberry Pi 4
How to install Lazarus 2.0.10 & FPC 3.2.0 on Manjaro 20.06 with Raspberry Pi 4 http://minibase.no/?p=1530
Experimenting with the Pi
An overview of the breadboard based experimenters boards and deplyment PCBs for the Pi.
Tiny LCD DSPI based screens
A recent test of the tiny LCD screens (2.8 to 3.5 inch) I have, to assess if they support a ...Hyperpixel 3.5 Pimoroni
3.5 inch touch screen. Superseeded by Hyperpixel 4.0 Reasonable quality, touch is, though it i capacitive, not too easy to use. ...Adafruit PITFT 2.8 resistive
Image Raspbian full if you want a desktop, else lite is sufficient for CLI. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get remove ...Kedei 2 touch screen
Something I bought in 2015, 2 Kedei 2 lcd 3.5 inch touch screens. Worked, albeit slow. With a Wheezy image, ...USB quirks
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=245931 1. Finding the VID and PID of your USB SSD Disconnect the USB SSD. In a terminal window, run the command ...Mouse double click speed
Trouble like me with Mouse double click speed? Google "lxde double click speed", there is a hidden file named ".gtkrc-2.0" in ...RPI_HAL
rpi_hal from https://github.com/rudiratlos/rpi-hal is an incredible rich and uptodate unit for Freepascal to use the I/O of the Raspberry. From Freepascal ...Arduino on Raspberry
Install Arduino on Buster Arduino 1.8.12 (or higher) from arduino.cc - Software - Arduino ARM 32 bits Download to e.g. ...A page and news blog about Raspberry Pi, Freepascal and Lazarosn on the Pi, Ulitbo on the Pi, Arduino and ESP8266. More of a personal logbook for my own usage, it may be of use for others.