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Patrick Cook
Patrick Cook
1:09 AM
I don't know if anyone is actually interested or not, but as promised, I am in the process of uploading a video demonstrating my speech recognition on the Pi Zero. I will update my answer here: meta.raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/a/676/33979 with a link when the video is done uploading to YouTube.
 
PandaLion98
PandaLion98
1:21 AM
I'm alive!
 
PandaLion98
PandaLion98
1:54 AM
Anyone know what this is? I think it clamps on to some cables and stuff
I think it's the same with the round things on VGA cables.
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
It looks like a fuel ionizer.
@PandaLion98: looks like a fuel ionizer, what it's probably a ferrite core. They're made to reduce interference.
 
PandaLion98
PandaLion98
2:51 AM
Yeah, forgot to mention that. The stuff inside is the same stuff I find in inductors (ferrite).
Hopefully the anti-interference works as advertised.
 
Freedo
Freedo
3:51 AM
Hello everybody
I'm just a person that never did anything with raspberry pi, but I'm interested on learning how to use it for DIY, but I don't wanna be a kind of person that only knows how to copy guides
where i could start my journey? Any good books, online courses or something like that ?
I have basic linux skills
and what i want to do is mostly basic automation, setting up some sensors with raspberry pi and do some basic remote automation..things like that
 
 
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goldilocks
goldilocks
7:24 AM
@Freedo Have you looked around online? You are likely a better judge of your own interests and abilities than anyone here could be off the cuff. Different people get into the pi in different ways. If you are just learning to program, sensors may be a bit tricky, although that depends on the sensor and what pre-existing pi compatible code there is for it. The usual place to start with controlling electronics is buttons and leds; from that you can learn some basic fundamental things
about circuits, and then decide where to go.
Keep in mind that you probably won't be putting a pi into orbit or automating your home in the near future unless you already have some relevant skills.
 
 
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PandaLion98
PandaLion98
9:30 AM
I just pulled out my Pi 1 B+ from storage. Attached power and SD card then booted. Solid red and green light.
I thought it was dead.
But then I saw the SD cardboard box freshly opened. There was literally nothing on the card.
Just sharing. Carry on.
 
 
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Ghanima
Ghanima
11:23 AM
@Freedo have a look at the MagPi, it's 40+ issues published with many different projects shown. Certainly worthwhile to skim through to get some ideas.
 
 
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Jacobm001
Jacobm001
5:28 PM
This is going to be a really shitty term, I can tell already.
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
5:39 PM
how so
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
My senior project... Turns out, I need an alpha product in 6 weeks, and a working beta in 10. I still have no access to the company's infrastructure, and no real idea on how it works.
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
sounds challenging
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
Infuriating. The company we're working with has been extremely frustrating to get information from. And for some reason, we didn't find out about the paperwork they needed completed until after an entire term spent planning the project :-/
So, yeah. No idea how long that will take :P
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
you'll manage!
(hopefully :-P )
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
Here's hoping
 
 
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Ghanima
Ghanima
8:17 PM
Peter Jackson, cursed be thy name
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
@Ghanima: why?
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
for turning hundred pages book into three overlong movies
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
That bothered, me, but honestly... it was one of the least objectionable things in that damn adaptation.
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
don't mention albino orcs!
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
How about the fact that they magically got ahold of two barrels in the barrel fight escape?
Or riding a thin wheel barrow on a molten river of gold without any sort of burn, let alone death?
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
8:29 PM
oh shut up ;)
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
Or that a pillar can protect you from fire hot enough to melt said gold?
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
all the molten gold situations are equally wrongish
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
Yeah.
 
 
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Ghanima
Ghanima
9:54 PM
SO has a reduced ads privilege, crazy
edit rampage, @Jacobm001?
the eagles are coming!
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
@Ghanima I've been going through old questions, and there's a badge for it. So... yeah :P
Less than 400 to go for the gold badge :P
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
copy editor?
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
@Ghanima Assholes always show up late.
Yeah
I'm getting really close to "electorate". Just 43 left.
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
you're working on next years moderator nominations already
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
"Be Prepared"
Currently, I'm just bored as hell.
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
10:01 PM
work your project
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
The one I mentioned earlier?
Currently out of my hands.
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
ok, work on your SO reputation
@SteveRobillard and I developed the idea to implant you as a mod over there so you could redirect all the nice raspberry questions they withhold from the one true place
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
Lol, with a rep of 248!?
Now that would be a trick!
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
i am worse off, 160 something
coming to think of low rep, how long was Gollum in that cave?
some hundred years?
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
Yeah, long ass time.
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
10:06 PM
I really wonder how he could do the riddle things with Bilbo
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
I believe it was north of 400 years.
But he was less than 600 years old if iirc.
@Ghanima For a long time my highest rep was actually english.stackoverflow.com. Weird for a programmer, but whatever P:
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
indeed
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
10:30 PM
399 and counting ;)
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
@Ghanima: what about bacon?
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
your schematics reads beacon when it should be bacon ;)
nevermind
$90bn, frak me
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
@Ghanima ?
bn as in billion?
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
as in billion
the volkswagen story
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
What could possibly cost that much?
Ah.
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
10:35 PM
that's just the amount they're sued for in the US
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
Well, it's not like they don't deserve it.
But yeah, it's hard to comprehend that kind of cash.
Well, there's two old answers. Hopefully one of those is good for the Necromancer badge :P
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
I should delete your answer before the badge is awarded
;)
why would they make the compute modules in the first place?
ever read something about sales numbers or successful projects?
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
11:22 PM
@Ghanima: one of them would need 5 up votes. Seems unlikely
I saw one successful project on Kickstart we that used it as the heart of a media center, but that's it.
 
Steve Robillard
Steve Robillard
@goldilocks you may want to check newark/element 14 and adafruit tomorrow the 6th has been rumored in more than one place as when new pi 0 stock will drop. Hopefully it will free up adafruit to sell just the boards and newark to lower the price to the advertised $5 they had some crazy price (like ubers surge pricing)
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
11:45 PM
@Jacobm001 hmm, seems like an aweful amount of effort for nearly no bang
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
@Ghanima I agree. But the foundation makes a lot of odd choices IMHO.
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
like configuring static IPs in dhcpd.conf ;)
 
Jacobm001
Jacobm001
Or the video core choice. It's an awfully tight chip for an educational e
Device
 
Steve Robillard
Steve Robillard
@Ghanima and releasing this devil child of a change with little notice
 
Ghanima
Ghanima
maybe we should be lucky to not have the rpi questions that linger about on SO
it's mostly W10 IOT
 

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