Fantastic! Very impressed. Did you base your design on anything existing? What materials did you use? Are your parts laser cut? What source do you use for your actuators & electronics?
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Fantastic! Very impressed. Did you base your design on anything existing? What materials did you use? Are your parts laser cut? What source do you use for your actuators & electronics?
Quey_Quick
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Anyone tried Ubuntu Mate?
Necropolis
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Planning on putting a brew Pi setup together for monitoring and controlling temperature of my homebrew while it ferments.
This will use a raspberry pi (the original one), an arduino and some temperature probes.
Looking forward to putting it all together.
This will use a raspberry pi (the original one), an arduino and some temperature probes.
Looking forward to putting it all together.
Oh don't you want to document the process and put it somewhere nice, like Instructables or something? Would LOVE to see it go from idea to a working system.
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I'm really just going to be following guides that are already out there - what I am doing is nothing new by any means...
Something along these lines:
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=466106
If I'm feeling adventurous I may include a 20x4 LCD display into the design so that I can see the temp readouts on the unit.
Something along these lines:
http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=466106
If I'm feeling adventurous I may include a 20x4 LCD display into the design so that I can see the temp readouts on the unit.
Hamish McPanji
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Has anyone tried the rooter firmware for the pi? : http://ofmodemsandmen.com/downloadsm.html
Am interested to see if it works
Am interested to see if it works
Ubuntu Mate is really user friendly & has a great GUI. Ideal for someone with little Linux experience.
Mainly used it for the browser though...
Shot for the link, going to give it a read tonightQuey_Quick
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Yeah tried it out last night, for some reason had poor audio quality. Will go back to Wheezy for now.
elf_lord_ZC5
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Wanna try FreeBSD on my RPi ...
Also looking for a +/- 18 inch HDMI screen for it. Any ideas where I might get one for a reasonable price?
Also looking for a +/- 18 inch HDMI screen for it. Any ideas where I might get one for a reasonable price?
KOPITE
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Anyone will to assist me setting up my RPi 2. i formatted the sdcard propely, but i just cant get the noobs to load on it. no gui, the grenn led jsut blinkers for a few seconds then it does nothing. i just want to run plex media server on it. any help will be appreciated.
if someone in cpt can set it up for me that would be actually better. you can pm me. thanks
if someone in cpt can set it up for me that would be actually better. you can pm me. thanks
Tinuva
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Dont think the raspberry pi is powerfull enough as a plex server, but it will do fine as a plex media client, like rasplex.
Necropolis
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The Pi2 might be up to the task.
elf_lord_ZC5
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Agreed - RPi mught be a bit slow - depending on if it must down/up sample, but a RPi2 should be good ...
KOPITE
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Any takers......
elf_lord_ZC5
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You followed the instructions on trouble shooting the install on the RPi forums, bit far to volenteer ...
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You would've needed to flash an image to the SD Card...
As a start; what image did you flash to it? And how did you go about doing so?
elf_lord_ZC5
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Basically what you do is use the SDFormat program to format your SD card with, download the NOOBS file for RPi 2 not for RPi - unzip this file to directory on your hard drive, copy all the files onto the SD card insert card into you RPi 2, connect keyboard, mouse and HDMI monitor, plug into power and follow instructions.
Using an old TV with composite output also works, but is a bit more fiddly ...
Not sure what SDFormat does differently than normal Windows format, or, whether you really need to format a brand new SD card at all ... , but follow the instructions to the letter as on the RPi site and forums for sanity sake.
Using an old TV with composite output also works, but is a bit more fiddly ...
Not sure what SDFormat does differently than normal Windows format, or, whether you really need to format a brand new SD card at all ... , but follow the instructions to the letter as on the RPi site and forums for sanity sake.
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KOPITE
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i used this zip and extracted it https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/
then use this to format it https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/formatter_4/index.html
i then copy the content of the zip file onto the sd card.
i then insert the sd card inn the rpi 2 to start it up, but nothing comes up.
KOPITE
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that might be my problem, i probably downloaded for version B.
send me a link to the correct one please.