For someone that has never soldered before, this video goes into more detail about soldering the GPIO header pins to the Pi Zero. We also go over some soldering basics and a few tips on technique.
Showing posts with label Raspberry Pi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raspberry Pi. Show all posts
January 05, 2016
January 03, 2016
Pi Zero Next Steps: Part 1
You've finally got a Pi Zero in your hands, now what? I take a look at soldering in the GPIO pins and protect the board with an acrylic case. Instead of using the USB and HDMI ports to connect, you can easily connect through the GPIO serial pins to access the command line.
December 17, 2015
December 03, 2013
more Raspberry Pi
Here's something very interesting - combining my two newest hobbies Ubuntu Linux and RaspPi - A Raspberry Pi Build Cluster for Ubuntu
Never mind that I can't actually watch the YouTube video with Raspbian :-P
Still, if it could be done, I think having a modified Ubuntu that could run on the Raspberry Pi would be cool!
Never mind that I can't actually watch the YouTube video with Raspbian :-P
Still, if it could be done, I think having a modified Ubuntu that could run on the Raspberry Pi would be cool!
Setting things up on Raspberry Pi
Just for fun, I thought I'd buy one of these little Raspbian kits and get back into using Linux (and maybe learn some Python and Perl and the way). In fact, I'm posting this today from the RaspPi! Cool stuff but not as easy out-of-the-box like Ubuntu 12.04.
So, blogging some steps that I took to customize and optimize Raspbian:
1) Installed Iceweasel (version of Firefox) and moved cache and profile to RAM disk (surf the web much faster!) - Firefox Ramdisk
2) Added some new shortcuts to the desktop (I'm using the default LXDE desktop GUI) using LXShortCut and added/modified the program menu with LXPanel
3) Oops, I deleted the log-out button from the panel! Never did find a graphical way to put the button back, but did find out how to restore. Rename the directory ~/.config/lxpanel (to something like ~/.config/lxpanel_bad) and reboot. LXDE will create a new panel from the default configuration. Note the dot in .config (it's normally a hidden directory).
Next up is to clone my SD card so I have a copy of Raspbian just the way I have it setup now in case I screw things up again!
So, blogging some steps that I took to customize and optimize Raspbian:
1) Installed Iceweasel (version of Firefox) and moved cache and profile to RAM disk (surf the web much faster!) - Firefox Ramdisk
2) Added some new shortcuts to the desktop (I'm using the default LXDE desktop GUI) using LXShortCut and added/modified the program menu with LXPanel
3) Oops, I deleted the log-out button from the panel! Never did find a graphical way to put the button back, but did find out how to restore. Rename the directory ~/.config/lxpanel (to something like ~/.config/lxpanel_bad) and reboot. LXDE will create a new panel from the default configuration. Note the dot in .config (it's normally a hidden directory).
Next up is to clone my SD card so I have a copy of Raspbian just the way I have it setup now in case I screw things up again!
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