Beginners • Pi 5 GPIO pins
Hello AllJust took my Pi 5 out of the box, plugged it in, and tried to run some examples form my Pi 3. Much to my surprise the GPIO libraires do not work on the 5 that was used on the 3. I'm pretty...
View ArticleAdvanced users • Re: PI5 and easy AI/CV/LLM
Great topic. i am installing gemma right now. Gonna play with it soon After trying, it is too slow and ruins the CPU. Temperature went to out of the charts. We need AI accelerator in next gen PIs. I...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Bandwidth Speed and Options in Raspberry Pi USB...
I've done no hard testing but have experimented with the USB gadgets.The short answer is "it depends".Now for the long answer:The maximum theoretical bandwdith for data transfer using a Pi (whether in...
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Pi 5 GPIO pins
Search ther forum. GPIO moved from on chip in the PI 4 (and earlier models) to off chip in the RP1 on the Pi5. That means libraries that expected to hit the GPIO via memory mapped registers will no...
View ArticleOther projects • Re: How GPS/GNSS works without direct sky view?
David,Some GPS unit feature an external antenna connector although a long wire at GPS frequencies can be self defeating.If your GPS unit is a USB thing consider a couple of metre USB extender cable....
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Help if possible
Likely yes but you likely need some components for the motors. It would help to know what it is supposed to be when done. Sort of having the picture of the complete jigsaw puzzle Is it a kit?here's...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Zip7 question
7zip is not a complete programme, it is an add-on for an existing programme (Archiver in this case)I came from Windows a couple of years ago, the move does get easier if you stick with it7zip is a...
View ArticleDevice Tree • Re: Device tree explanation
I found the first example hereFor the second ex, I found in a book the following : "In this example, the reg property specifies that the device is located at address 0x1000 with a size of 0x100 bytes,...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: On Powering the Raspberry 5 via Battery for Portable...
You need to develop your specs first. Think about what you'd want from a systems analyst before starting to design a program. Now apply the same concepts to your hardware project. You need to...
View ArticleGaming • Re: Need some guidance on retropie on raspberrypi OS.
You don't need Retropie to add console emulators to the Raspberry Pi Operating System, and console emulators are usually open source, which means the program should compile on any Linux Operating...
View ArticleOff topic discussion • Re: Dream hardware
viewtopic.php?t=35880430 and 10or is it25 and 16?If the latter is correct and Pi 5 uses 50% more electricity, the Pi 5 is not achieving 2x.But that GFLOPS is probably not CPU but NEON?And not all...
View ArticleGraphics programming • Re: Freeze/memory corruption after 35-40 minutes of...
Stopping capture on the USB host side after ~30 minutes seems to reset the "freeze timer". The next capture session can live the same 35-40 minutes. So constantly restarting at 30 min mark could be a...
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: cannot login after update; but text mode login is fine
This is usually caused by trying to mount some external storage (e.g., a USB drive) and having the mount fail, but the user not notice that it failed. They then copy a bunch of files to the mount...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Identify which barcode scanner
Assuming the scanners show up as HID then possibly reading from /dev/usb/hiddev(x) could work?My concern would be the scanners may not always be a standard number esp if they are plugged in post power...
View ArticlePython • Re: list/dict error - not understanding
Code: if parts[0] == FIRST_LABEL:results = {}results[parts[0]] = parts[1]First you read a line and put the string value into line.From line you split with the equal to the list parts.parts[0] will...
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Want to make a smart tv with browser feature
Kodi can have browser add ins - https://alvarotrigo.com/blog/web-browsers-kodi/ may help (never tried any though).Statistics: Posted by MiscBits — Wed Apr 17, 2024 12:55 am
View ArticleGeneral discussion • Re: Cannot ping or ssh into RPi
...Cheap/ISP router with a restriction on the number of active connections? Adding a network switch won't help with that....Never thought about Wi-Fi - some of the small 4/5G boxes have a limit so...
View ArticleRaspberry Pi OS • Re: Compile latest version filezilla for arm64
For the clienthttps://wiki.filezilla-project.org/Client_CompileI couldn't find an equivalent page for the server.Statistics: Posted by pidd — Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:04 am
View ArticleTroubleshooting • Re: Raspberry Pi4B No Green Light
Are you using a power supply or charger?My first thought would be power.Did you work through the sticky at viewtopic.php?t=58151Statistics: Posted by MiscBits — Wed Apr 17, 2024 1:07 am
View ArticleBeginners • Re: Please Help. Ipam mini2, want to get pi please help me.
What does locked down me? I ask:my friend he say that you could do linux on my ipad mini, then add to the raspberry pi5 then i can use t as a screen, accelerometer, gps, gyroscope built in.... ? Can i...
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