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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 ...

Itead 2.8 TFT Add-on V2.0 Touch

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, ...

WD Pidrive

https://github.com/PiDrive/CommunityFoundationEdition

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. ...

Autostart program like minicom at console at boot

Install minicom setup your system to auto ;login into a commandline session [use sudo raspi-config] then at the end of .bashrc put in then ...

RPI4 as USB gadget

https://www.hardill.me.uk/wordpress/2019/11/02/pi4-usb-c-gadget/

Shutdown menu not working: You can get the Buttons working, just change the line ‘Logout=lxde-pi-shutdown-helper’ to ‘Logout=sudo lxde-pi-shutdown-helper’ in ‘/home/pi/.config/lxpanel/LXDE-pi/config’.

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.