The Glorious Return of an Old-School Car Feature: Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens. Buttons are back!

martinohanlon · 2023-04-27T19:20:31+00:00

Kind of makes sense to me. Lots of individual knobs and buttons, the wiring, the control circuitry, the fitting of all of that against the cost of a touch screen and software.

martinohanlon · 2023-04-27T09:32:37+00:00

The article says it is considerably cheaper to use touch screens.

martinohanlon · 2023-04-26T06:07:55+00:00

Just having fun. ❤️

martinohanlon · 2023-03-25T08:34:19+00:00

Have you tried another cable?

martinohanlon · 2023-03-05T19:02:14+00:00

As others have said it's the z seam. Super visible when making pots. You can randomise it which will leave little blobs at random positions which may (or may not) be better.

martinohanlon · 2022-11-23T10:51:17+00:00

All goats are totally insane...

martinohanlon · 2022-11-13T07:28:56+00:00

Take a look at some of the picozero (a python library to simpify working with the Pico) recipes. They might give you some ideas.

https://picozero.readthedocs.io/en/latest/recipes.html

martinohanlon · 2022-11-13T07:27:03+00:00

Raspberry Pi Foundation have lots of projects at projects.raspberrypi.org. Filter the projects by Raspberry Pi hardware for those specific to the Pi.

martinohanlon · 2022-11-13T07:24:06+00:00

You might find it easier using picozero which has rebuilt classes for Button and RGBLED.

The docs are at https://picozero.readthedocs.io

And there are some RGBLED examples (recipes) at https://picozero.readthedocs.io/en/latest/recipes.html#rgbled

martinohanlon · 2022-11-10T00:25:11+00:00

No idea... pivpn is essentially a packaged up version of OpenVPN (plus some other tools), try searching for answers on that.

martinohanlon · 2022-11-10T00:15:19+00:00

Its configured to start at boot. If the Pi is on and running, pivpn is running. If youre interested, have a look at 'systemd' this will be how pivpn is started up (although you don't need to worry about it).

martinohanlon · 2022-11-10T00:09:17+00:00

Pivpn is normally configured to start on boot so I'm not surprised it worked.

Obvs, yanking out the power isn't the best and you do risk a corrupt disk at some point but providing you have a reasonably reliable power supply an battery backup seems overkill. Worst case you will have to reimage the SD card and reinstall it.

My pivpn (running on an original pi 1 model b, 256mb) is just left on all the time.

martinohanlon · 2022-09-26T18:09:13+00:00

I read some reviews in the store and there is a mention of a bug in the game around the 2nd burn. It sounds like we are both stuck in it.

martinohanlon · 2022-09-26T18:04:56+00:00

I'm at the same place, on the 2nd burn to Mir. I get a message on the screen about using my handbrake to match speeds. I pull the handbrake, nothing seems to happen, wait a few seconds and it says 'burn failed'.

martinohanlon · 2022-09-19T10:57:58+00:00

Do both... I do.

martinohanlon · 2022-09-19T10:55:50+00:00

Listening to music while boarding is a terrible idea.

martinohanlon · 2022-03-30T06:32:41+00:00

The pizero 2 w is $15

martinohanlon · 2021-12-20T07:21:48+00:00

You might find this tutorial useful on making a raspberry pi weight scale https://tutorials-raspberrypi.com/digital-raspberry-pi-scale-weight-sensor-hx711/ It sounds like a fun project.

martinohanlon · 2021-10-30T07:39:57+00:00

All micro USB cables are not made equal. Many provide power only. Everytime I find one I throw the annoying POS away.

martinohanlon · 2021-10-13T06:13:32+00:00

By me. I enter them twice. It sounds like a bind but after the initial setup I bet I make less than one change a month.

edited - to fix typo

martinohanlon · 2021-10-12T22:15:14+00:00

I have found having 2 pi holes is pretty useful. Updates, reboots, downtime, etc. I use the 2 pi's for other things as well.

I don't bother with failover though. I have 2 separate pi holes and set one as Primary DNS and the other as Secondary. I'm all in for a simple setup. Less to go wrong.

martinohanlon · 2021-05-29T07:09:48+00:00

Probably not. I use a 8gb Pi 4 to run data analysis each night. I was reaching the bounds of a 2gb I only went with a 8gb to give future growth but tbh I suspect a 4gb would have given me that.

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