[lug] free pi

[Bethany Hobson]

Ping! ;-)  Very interested to learn how to use your PiBox. 

Thanks,  Michael!

Thanks again, Glenn!

Peace
--
Bethany

> On Jan 22, 2019, at 6:04 PM, Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Bethany (and anyone else who might be interested).  I build a custom
> Linux distribution for Pi's called PiBox.   It has a kiosk mode for
> digital picture frames.  There is an example of how this works in the
> video on the project page:
> 
> https://www.piboxproject.com/
> https://youtu.be/Yv54eLf-B98?t=95
> 
> The kiosk mode works well for Pi 2's and 3's.  Feel free to ping me if
> you're interested in learning how to use this.  
> 
>> On Tue, 2019-01-22 at 15:52 -0700, Bethany Hobson wrote:
>> Hi Glenn,
>> 
>> If any still available, would like to take them off your hands. Have
>> wanted to learn about Raspberry Pi, and programming. Interested in
>> making digital picture frame and maybe weather station. 
>> 
>> Peace
>> --
>> Bethany
>> 
>>> On Jan 22, 2019, at 2:17 PM, ghe <ghe at slsware.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I've got a box of Raspberry Pis that I've been using for a long
>>> time.
>>> Some as toys, one on the Internet as a DNS server, others as
>>> replacements for earlier ones that never happened. Those with SD
>>> cards
>>> should have Raspbian of some flavor in them.
>>> 
>>> It looks like four of them are 2s (two in boxes, two in a
>>> GeauxRobot
>>> three level dog bone kit with no top or bottom. Or third RPi.
>>> 
>>> One's a 3 with no case, no SD card, but with heat sinks.
>>> 
>>> And there are 2 unlabeled ones with the big SD card, both in those
>>> clear
>>> dog bone cases. One has an 8G card, the other is a 16G.
>>> 
>>> And there's one I can't find a label on. I suspect it's a 2. It's
>>> has a
>>> 32G small SD card, a dog bone bottom, and one of those tiny
>>> Adafruit
>>> monitor screens on top. The software's been modified to make it
>>> work
>>> (Adafruit software). The screen worked fine last time I had power
>>> on it.
>>> 
>>> And there's a 32G small SD card, in a big SD card adapter and a
>>> couple
>>> 8G big SD cards, loose in the box. One, FWIW, with a genuine
>>> Raspberry
>>> Pi logo on it.
>>> 
>>> No wall warts. I don't know where they went.
>>> 
>>> All of them worked last time I had power in them.
>>> 
>>> They are free for BLUG folk that want them.
>>> 
>>> ghe at slsware.net
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Glenn English
>>> 
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