[lug] free pi

Stephen Kraus ub3ratl4sf00 at gmail.com
Thu Jan 24 08:08:29 MST 2019


I too will have to play with this, nicely done!

On Thu, Jan 24, 2019 at 10:06 AM Bethany Hobson <blhobson at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> > Michael J. Hammel <mjhammel at graphics-muse.org>
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