A few years ago, I made a thermometer of 64 LED's hooked up to some eight shift registers which were controlled by a Microchip microcontroller. Even though that thermometer is still in use, I saw an opportunity to use a Raspberry Pi Zero to build a smaller version. With a Pi, the possibilities are a...

I realize this is an old thread, but in case anyone wonders about latex on the rpi: I installed "kile" and "okular, (okular is a programme that allows you to view .ps and .pdf files): sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade sudo apt-get install kile sudo apt-get install okular, and I'm amazed at ho...

Dear fm4, Thanks a lot for your reply! In the mean time, searching the internet for quite a while (maybe I was using the wrong search terms) led me to the same conclusion. Apparently, my wireless mode initiates this request, which is ironic because all this time I was looking for the cause of this o...

Dear all, First of let me say how happy I am with the RPI. I actually gave one to my 14-year old son, who has become somewhat addicted to it and is, in the spirit of the foundations goal, if I'm not mistaken, programming happily away. The Pi that I'm using seems to work very well indeed. First a dis...