pifon 2.0 released

By lallafa, on März 5th, 2016%

Due to recent events (I became a dad a second time 🙂 I revisited my audio baby monitor project for Raspberry Pis called Pifon. The former setup of having one Pi observing one room is not enough anymore and therefore the new version adds multi-room support!

mon observing 2 fon clients now

Now . . . → Read More: pifon 2.0 released

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fbTFT Setup on modern Raspbian

By lallafa, on März 21st, 2015%

I am a big fan of those small TFT displays in the size of the Raspi. They even come with a resistive touch panel and allow you to realize small applications with full UI control. With the fine fbtft drivers from notro you can access them as regular framebuffers and use all software that runs . . . → Read More: fbTFT Setup on modern Raspbian

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Networking on the Minimig with PPP and Roadshow

By lallafa, on November 17th, 2013%

When working with an Amiga running on a Minimig platform then data transfer is not as convenient as one might think: You have an SD Card connected and copying files around with SD Card is not the biggest deal, but unfortunately your Amiga is currently running from a system drive stored on this card :/ . . . → Read More: Networking on the Minimig with PPP and Roadshow

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Watterott’s new RPi-ShieldBridge

By lallafa, on Juli 13th, 2013%

With the ili9341fb driver I wrote for notro’s fbtft driver suite you can easily connect and use a Watterott MI0283QT9A display with your Raspi. For now you had to wire the display yourself to the Pi and a nice plate connecting the display was missing. Now the wait is over: Watterott designed the RPi-ShieldBridge! This . . . → Read More: Watterott’s new RPi-ShieldBridge

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Building AROS hosted for Raspbian

By lallafa, on Juni 4th, 2013%

The Raspberry Pi platform really looks very suitable for running AROS. I wanted to play with this setup and build a Raspbian (armhf) release from source (so I can hack on if I like to). I chose the Linux hosted version of AROS as it is already available in the source tree and Raspi’s Linux . . . → Read More: Building AROS hosted for Raspbian

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Watterott MI0283QT-9 display with generic flexfb driver

By lallafa, on Juni 1st, 2013%

Notro has added a generic frame buffer driver called flexfb in his fbtft driver framework. This driver resulted from the observation that most small TFT driver chips share a lot in common like data transfer scheme, pushing pixels, and setting the update window. The only major difference is found in the initialization sequence required to . . . → Read More: Watterott MI0283QT-9 display with generic flexfb driver

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Watterott MI0283QT-9A Display for the Rasbperry Pi

By lallafa, on März 10th, 2013%

In my last post I attached the Watterott Display to my Raspi. The model MI0283QT-2 I have here is not available anymore and was replaced with the newer MI0283QT-9A display modul. Unfortunately, this new display uses a different graphics chip and thus the driver I wrote won’t work for these panels… 🙁

With my new . . . → Read More: Watterott MI0283QT-9A Display for the Rasbperry Pi

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Watterott Display on Raspberry Pi

By lallafa, on März 3rd, 2013%

I really like my Raspberry Pi, but what I am missing is a tiny display matching the size of the board that can be used as primary display, the boot console or some graphics later on.

A very nice and cheap TFT display is the MI0283QT-Adapter (note: I got the -2 version not the newer . . . → Read More: Watterott Display on Raspberry Pi

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