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by esba1ley
Sun Mar 11, 2018 4:50 am
Forum: Spirit Technical Discussion
Topic: Democode errors
Replies: 8
Views: 14475

Re: Democode errors

... you beat me to a solution, sm7tix. Thanks!

-E
by esba1ley
Sun Mar 11, 2018 4:45 am
Forum: Spirit Technical Discussion
Topic: Spirit Schematic
Replies: 2
Views: 9743

Re: Spirit Schematic

gpvillamil I think the simplest solution for the existing boards to get the Arduino reset available to the RasPI GPIO would be to take one of the unused pins (like GPIO25) and jumper to the reset pin (pin 5) on the 8-pin header P14, which is near the front of the Spirit board, towards the pan/tilt h...
by esba1ley
Sun Mar 11, 2018 4:27 am
Forum: Spirit Technical Discussion
Topic: Forward-thinking: Jessie or Stretch? Python 2 or Python 3?
Replies: 6
Views: 12307

Re: Forward-thinking: Jessie or Stretch? Python 2 or Python 3?

I agree with your ratinoale for C marckarasek... but C isn't for everyone. I thought kevin's intent was for an education platform for younger coders, for which I think python is the right start, they can then branch into C if they need the performance.

kevin? This is your baby...
by esba1ley
Sun Mar 11, 2018 4:22 am
Forum: Spirit Technical Discussion
Topic: SOLVED: problem uploading Arduino Sketch
Replies: 24
Views: 31958

Re: SOLVED: problem uploading Arduino Sketch

Ah HAH! Makes sense.
by esba1ley
Mon Feb 12, 2018 5:51 pm
Forum: Spirit Technical Discussion
Topic: Forward-thinking: Jessie or Stretch? Python 2 or Python 3?
Replies: 6
Views: 12307

Re: Forward-thinking: Jessie or Stretch? Python 2 or Python 3?

I compiled OpenCV 3.4 against both Python2.7 and Python3.0 bindings simultaneously. That's even more future-proof... and just as easy to do.
by esba1ley
Mon Feb 12, 2018 2:02 am
Forum: Spirit Technical Discussion
Topic: Power use of LEDs - some observations
Replies: 2
Views: 8998

Re: Power use of LEDs - some observations

Very astute observation. For power consumption purposes, capping the values of the NeoPixels to 127 is a really good idea. I'm not sure if it quite cuts power consumption in half... but it gets close. There may be some color shifting, though, because our eyes are more sensitive to some colors (green...
by esba1ley
Sun Feb 11, 2018 11:08 pm
Forum: Spirit Technical Discussion
Topic: Forward-thinking: Jessie or Stretch? Python 2 or Python 3?
Replies: 6
Views: 12307

Forward-thinking: Jessie or Stretch? Python 2 or Python 3?

Kevin et. al.: The cards that came with our Spirit Rovers had Raspbian Jessie installed... The first thing I did was flash my card with Raspbian Stretch from 11-29-17 from "the mothership" at https://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads/raspbian/ . Similarly, as I"m going through your python...
by esba1ley
Sun Feb 11, 2018 10:56 pm
Forum: Spirit Technical Discussion
Topic: A way to clone your Pi's SD card without removing it
Replies: 1
Views: 7907

Re: A way to clone your Pi's SD card without removing it

This tool also allowed me to take an install that was on a 128GB cheap card (unreliable in the Pi) and downsize an already-working install to a 32GB higher-quality SanDisk card... so it has more utility than just backing things up.
by esba1ley
Sun Feb 11, 2018 10:54 pm
Forum: Spirit Technical Discussion
Topic: A way to clone your Pi's SD card without removing it
Replies: 1
Views: 7907

A way to clone your Pi's SD card without removing it

Hey all, I just used a very useful tool today for cloning a Raspberry Pi, using the Pi to a USB SD card reader, so we don't have to remove our SD cards to back up our Spirit Rovers... The tool is here, and it's pretty well documented: https://github.com/billw2/rpi-clone Kevin: we should probably inc...