Anyone managed to acquire a Raspberry Pi?
I've got one, if you give me £100 you can have it ;) At least one other Alugger has one. Adam
** Adam Bower <adam@thebowery.co.uk> [2012-05-10 22:51]:
I've got one, if you give me £100 you can have it ;) ** end quote [Adam Bower]
Likewise, it arrived on Tuesday - although not likewise on selling it - at any price - I haven't had a chance to play yet! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU
Adam Bower wrote:
I've got one, if you give me £100 you can have it ;)
At least one other Alugger has one.
Well, that's cheaper than first day Ebay asking... But thanks, I'll wait for them to become more widely available: after all, I don't *need* one. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
From: Adam Bower <adam@thebowery.co.uk>
I've got one, if you give me £100 you can have it ;) At least one other Alugger has one.
Hopefully mine will arrive in the next day or two. A helpful guy has been busy building an optimised Debian port for it here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4256 - but he's looking for some volunteer mirrors: http://www.raspbian.org/Mirrors I look forward to trying it all out when it gets here ... -- SimonT.
Simon Turner wrote:
From: Adam Bower <adam@thebowery.co.uk>
I've got one, if you give me £100 you can have it ;) At least one other Alugger has one.
Hopefully mine will arrive in the next day or two.
A helpful guy has been busy building an optimised Debian port for it here:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=4256
- but he's looking for some volunteer mirrors:
http://www.raspbian.org/Mirrors
I look forward to trying it all out when it gets here ...
Thanks for posting that. (If 'posting' is the right term on a mailing list...) -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
On 10 May 2012 21:52, Anthony Anson <tony.anson@girolle.co.uk> wrote:
-- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
Yeah, I do. I've taken a video and a few photos. See http://www.retrocomputers.eu/2012/03/23/raspberry-pi-running-the-fuse-zx-spe... and http://www.flickr.com/photos/andysretrocomputers/sets/72157629550077581/with... Plan for the weekend is to put one into a case of some description. Andy http://www.retrocomputers.eu
Andy Taylor wrote:
On 10 May 2012 21:52, Anthony Anson <tony.anson@girolle.co.uk> wrote:
-- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
Yeah, I do. I've taken a video and a few photos. See http://www.retrocomputers.eu/2012/03/23/raspberry-pi-running-the-fuse-zx-spe... and http://www.flickr.com/photos/andysretrocomputers/sets/72157629550077581/with...
Plan for the weekend is to put one into a case of some description.
I'm going to play with one of those 'digital' photo frsmes for a screen. Unless someone tells me it won't work... -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
On 11/05/12 20:41, Anthony Anson wrote:
Andy Taylor wrote:
On 10 May 2012 21:52, Anthony Anson <tony.anson@girolle.co.uk> wrote:
-- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
I'm going to play with one of those 'digital' photo frsmes for a screen.
Unless someone tells me it won't work...
I wouldn't go that far but you'd have to find a digital photo frame with an LCD that uses the MIPI DSI specification and fits with what it looks like on the schematic ( the RPi gives 1 clock and 2 data lanes...that I think rules out a few salvage screens like the one I have here from an iPhone) That said if you can find a datasheet for the manufacturer specific extensions to the standard command set then I think it is possible to configure some screens to only use the data lanes you can feed, or maybe it is automagic and if you only supply 2 bytes at a time the display figures out that you only have 2 lanes. Then the hardware documentation on the RPi is pretty scant but I am not sure if the raw LCD interface is even properly supported in the current linux images. Finally the DSI pinout on the RPi lacks the voltage supplies you will need for most most screens. It is quite common for them to need a few sometimes helpfully +- supplies as well as whatever the backlight needs. So you'd need to knock up a daughterboard with some DC-DC converters at a minimum. It'd be an interesting little project if you can find out the display type used in the picture frame in advance and then look it up on panelook.com and the interface type is listed as DSI or MIPI then you are in with a chance.
Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On 11/05/12 20:41, Anthony Anson wrote:
Andy Taylor wrote:
On 10 May 2012 21:52, Anthony Anson <tony.anson@girolle.co.uk> wrote:
-- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
I'm going to play with one of those 'digital' photo frsmes for a screen.
Unless someone tells me it won't work...
I wouldn't go that far but you'd have to find a digital photo frame with an LCD that uses the MIPI DSI specification and fits with what it looks like on the schematic ( the RPi gives 1 clock and 2 data lanes...that I think rules out a few salvage screens like the one I have here from an iPhone) That said if you can find a datasheet for the manufacturer specific extensions to the standard command set then I think it is possible to configure some screens to only use the data lanes you can feed, or maybe it is automagic and if you only supply 2 bytes at a time the display figures out that you only have 2 lanes.
Then the hardware documentation on the RPi is pretty scant but I am not sure if the raw LCD interface is even properly supported in the current linux images.
Finally the DSI pinout on the RPi lacks the voltage supplies you will need for most most screens. It is quite common for them to need a few sometimes helpfully +- supplies as well as whatever the backlight needs. So you'd need to knock up a daughterboard with some DC-DC converters at a minimum.
It'd be an interesting little project if you can find out the display type used in the picture frame in advance and then look it up on panelook.com and the interface type is listed as DSI or MIPI then you are in with a chance.
Food for thought and experiment. Some of your caveats are no problem, as the charity shop (£10) purchase came with a PSU. Thanks for the stuff to chew on. Unfortunately, I can find no maker's name on the thing, nor b going into its setup. In the data on the back it proclaims: 'Digital Picture Frame' and it has a USB socket and a card slot marked 'SD/MMC/XD/MS'. It may have to be suck-it-and-see. -- Tony Anson www.girolle.co.uk/
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