[lug] free pi

[Michael J. Hammel]

Okay, glad to help out.  We can either get together at the next BLUG
meeting (before or after), or I can set up a forum on my issue tracker
where we can talk freely and I can explain how to get started.

I used to run a PiBox Meetup group in Colorado Springs, but I moved to
Broomfield (by the airport) and haven't started it up again.  I could
always try to get that going again if that's a better option.

Stephen and Bethany - let me know how you'd like to work on this.  Feel
free to email me directly:
mjhammel at graphics-muse.org
michaelhammel at acm.org


On Thu, 2019-01-24 at 10:08 -0500, Stephen Kraus wrote:
> 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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