Overriding Pins used for Keybow mini
Hi, total newbie to all things hardware, but I am familiar with software development. Just got a raspberry pi for xmas and I’m excited to try some projects out! I’m trying to find out if I can remap...
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Unicorn pHAT unresponsive
I have bought a Raspberry Pi Zero W, a Unicorn pHAT, and a set of Pogo-a-go-go Solderless GPIO pogo pins. Whatever I try, I can’t get the lights on the Unicorn pHAT to turn on. I was following this...
View ArticleAdafruit LC709203F and Arduino MKR ZERO
I can’t get the above working together. With a basic program which runs lc.begin(), I found the begin() never returned if the battery monitor was connected. It does return if it is disconnected. I...
View ArticleScroll:bit and inky:bit 927 error
Disclaimer: I am new to all this so need to be handheld through it! My daughter was give a microbit V2 plus scroll:bit and inky:bit for Christmas. She has got various simple programs working however...
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Inky pHat Yellow has vertical streaks
Howdy, I recently got an inky pHat Yellow from Adafruit. After some messing around with the libraries, I was able to get the demos from the new Inky library working through my Raspberry Pi 3B+. I’ve...
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Hyperpixel square - white lines across screen
Recently my Hyperpixel Square started displaying white lines across the screen (example below, above the “Welcome” dialog). Does not seem to be a driver issue as it persisted after I started from...
View ArticleScreen showing "No Signal
My son received the Picade for Christmas. After setting up and switching on he gets the following on screen:- First “HDMI” and then “No Signal” I have tried adding the line “hdmi_force_hoyplug=1” to...
View ArticleOnoff shim faulty gpio pins
Hi, I have purchased an onoff shim and having issues troubleshooting a problem I am having. It turns on via external momentary button and will shutdown but does not kill power. Thinking it might have...
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PIM244 - Maker Essentials: LEDs & Resistors - Datasheet
Hello all, Was wondering if I could get some specs or a datasheet about the LEDs that come packaged with the essentials pack? 1024×1024 119 KB shop.pimoroni.com Maker Essentials - LEDs & Resistors...
View ArticleHow can I connect gigabit ethernet
I have got a raspberry pi 4. I connect ethernet connect and copy to raspberry pi 4 from my pc. I check speed on ‘Task Manager’ of windows10. The speed is around 50Mbps that is not Gigabit. I look at...
View ArticleBlack screen after installing picade software
I have built a new picade 10 and everything as worked smoothly until I have installed the picade software as described with the following command curl https://get.pimoroni.com/picadehat | bash. After...
View ArticleHyperpixel 4: 1 touch = 4 clicks?
I’ve just added a Hyperpixel 4 to a Pi 400 - it mostly works fine, but a touch in Chromium seems to effectively be 4 mouse clicks rather than 1. How do I fix this? 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
View ArticlePimroni Picade - No Reponse After picadehat
Hello! Totally new raspberry pi and pimroni user here. I got the Pimroni Picade console controller kit and finished putting everything together. I got the unit hooked up to wifi, then ran the...
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Enviro+ - Low Voltage on 3V3 GPIO
I’ve been working on putting together an indoor air quality sensor array using the Enviro+, PMS5003, Pimoroni SGP30, and roscoe81’s really well featured “enviro-monitor” code. After quite a few...
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Grow - unable to turn off backlight
Hi all, First of all, I love this product; it’s going to help with reminding me to keep my plants alive :) I do have an issue with the back-light though, as in when I call display.set_backlight(0) it...
View Article128x128 OLED SPI display using SH1107 controller
Hello, Using this OLED display…1.12" Mono OLED (128x128, white/black) Breakout – Pimoroni and having a small issue. I have it communicating with my RPi Zero W board, however, occasionally, when I...
View Article"Snowflake Solo" problem - cannot change pattern
hello and happy holidays, I would like to thank you for the snowflake gift coming with my order. but there is a tiny flaw. by pushing the mini push button switch sometimes works normally but others...
View ArticleEnviro+ FeatherWing fails to produce 5V until power-cycled
I just turned on an Enviro+ FeatherWing and noticed my PMS5003 wasn’t responding. I’m running essentially the Pimoroni CircuitPython library for this on a (healthy) Feather nRF52840 Express. I noticed...
View ArticleKeybow problem
hi, i have recently bought a keybow macropad from amazon and i don’t quite know how to get it to work. Im not quite sure what FAT32 partition is on a microsd card and the keybow os wont boot up. Any...
View ArticleHQ camera problem
Hi - I have a raspberry pi 4, an HQ camera and the 6mm lens. I’ve set the pi, camera and lens up as recommended (so no C-CS adaptor, I’ve screwed the back focus all the way in), I enabled in software...
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