Networking

More Networking Things Our Raspbian specific networking stuff is here: https://raspberry-projects.com/pi/category/pi-operating-systems/raspbian/network-settings IP Address ip addr Is A Specific Interface Connected ip link show wlan0 WiFi List discovered networks sudo iwlist wlan0 scan Is network connected ifconfig wlan0 If the inet addr field has an address beside it, the RPi has connected to the network.  Get connected […]

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Installing Eclipse On Raspberry Pi 2

Can you use Eclipse on the Raspberry Pi? On a Raspberry Pi 1 (pre RPi2 model B) Forget it! Technically eclipse will run, but not really!  The RPi 1 is far too underpowered for it On a Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Yes we've got eclipse to run, but not with the cdt c++ compiler installed […]

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.Raspberry Pi PCB Versions

Oldest to newest Model B Revision 1.0 (256MB) PCB says: "Raspberry Pi (c) 2011" Model B Revision 1.0 (ECN0001) (256MB) Model B Revision 2.0 (256MB) Model A Revision 2.0 (256MB) PCB says: "Raspberry Pi (c)2011.12" Model B Revision 2.0 (512MB) PCB says: "Raspberry Pi (c)2011.12" Model B+ Revision 1.0 (512MB) PCB says: "Raspberry Pi Model B+ V1.2" Compute Module Revision 1.0 (512MB) Model A+ Revision 1.0 (512MB) […]

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RPi2 Model B IO Pins

Note that the schematic for the Raspberry Pi 2 Model B has not been released so we are unable to confirm if there are any changes to the specific signals used on the display and camera connectors. Changes Compared to Raspberry Pi 1 The Raspberry Pi 2 uses a new processor model so some pin additional […]

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RPi2 Model B CAD & Mounting Info

The Raspberry Pi 2 has an identical form factor to the previous RPi 1 Model B+. The PCB measures 85mm x 56.2mm excluding overhanging connectors and is 20.8mm high. Official CAD https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/hardware/raspberrypi/mechanical/README.md

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Model B+ Hardware General Specifications

Official Raspberry Pi Page www.raspberrypi.org/products/model-b-plus/ Memory 512MB RAM Connections 4 USB ports Ethernet port 3.5mm jack for audio & composit video out HDMI Processor SoC is a Broadcom BCM2835 This contains an ARM1176JZFS (ARM11 using an ARMv6-architecture core) with floating point, running at 700Mhz, and a Videocore 4 GPU. GPU The first version of the […]

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RPi2 Model B Hardware General Specifications

Official Raspberry Pi Page www.raspberrypi.org/products/raspberry-pi-2-model-b/ Core Differences To The Raspberry Pi 1 ARM V7 instead of ARM V6 processor architecture.  (This opens it up to operating systems like Ubuntu, robot operating system, Windows 10, etc). Quad core instead of single core processor.  For the operating system and multi threaded applications this provides a massive speed […]

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UART control from PHP

Turning off the UART functioning as a serial console See the instructions here. Setup Permission You can determine the user PHP is running as with this command in a php page: <?php echo exec('whoami'); ?> It will typcially be 'www-data'.  All serial connections, virtual or physical, are owned by the 'dialout' group so if you add www-data to the dialout group your […]

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