[raspberry-vi] Re: introduction
- From: Glenn <glennervin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2013 10:56:09 -0500
The concept is not new as I just found out yesterday.
I have a 92 year old client, and I was teaching her to dial a phone
non-visually, and I say dial literally.
She has an original rotary phone that she got when it first came out and
still uses it primarily.
I bought one myself from eBay about 15 years ago.
But anyway, she was telling me that when they first got to be able to dial
their own phone numbers, that everyone in the local phone company's calling
district had used a different fruit for a prefix prior to the era of
dialing.
So everyone south of this town was something like Cherry 4321 for example.
I got a kick out of this.
Glenn
----- Original Message -----
From: "Darren Brewer" <darren.m.brewer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 23, 2013 7:14 AM
Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: introduction
fruit cobbler ... love these names
Think I still have a couple of breadboards in a box somewhere. I used to
have thousands of components, but sold most of them off on ebay a few years
ago as I couldn't see me building circuits again. Its good that something
like this exists though as it makes connecting to the pi a lot easier.
Darren.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael A. Ray" <mike.ray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <raspberry-vi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 6:23 PM
Subject: [raspberry-vi] Re: introduction
> Hello Jason,
>
> I bought a device called an 'Adafruit Cobbler' to plug into the GPIO
> bus. This consists of a ribbon cable about a foot long with a double
> header plug at either end. One end plugs into the GPIO header on the
> Raspi, and at the other end there is a little PCB assembly that spreads
> the two rows of pins further apart so that they plug into a breadboard
> in such a way that they bridge the central divide.
>
> In this way you then have two distinct halve of breadboard into which to
> push components. I find this works very well as I am able to count
> along the breadboard holes and make sure I have components pushed into
> the right place, and do continuity and resistance tests before I connect
> to the Raspi.
>
> I have a half watt one hundred ohm resistor plugged in series with one
> of the 3.3 volt pins, and from the outer end of this resistor I connect
> ten kilohm pull-up resistors to the GPIO pins I want to use as inputs.
>
> Then a 470 ohm resistor to each of the chosen GPIO inputs to a
> push-to-make switch to ground completes the configuration of an input
> that will be pulled low when the button is pressed.
>
> Mike
>
>
> On 22/03/2013 18:11, Jason Fayre wrote:
>> Hi Michael,
>>
>> What are you using with the GPIO pins? This is something I've been
>> interested to play with.
>> On 3/22/2013 2:09 PM, Michael A. Ray wrote:
>>> Hello Jason,
>>>
>>> Welcome to the list.
>>>
>>> If you didn't find the list via the web site take a look at:
>>>
>>> http://www.raspberryvi.org/
>>>
>>> There's not a lot there yet but we've made a start.
>>>
>>> The list is quiet at times but there are bursts of activity.
>>>
>>> So far none of us have succeeded in getting any screen-readers up and
>>> running and stable enough to publish the results but we are working on
>>> it.
>>>
>>> I've done one or two things of interest; including streaming internet
>>> radio. I'm also working on interfacing to the GPIO (carefully) and one
>>> or two other things.
>>>
>>> Mike
>>>
>>>
>>> On 22/03/2013 16:09, Jason Fayre wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>> My name is Jason Fayre. I've been using Linux for several years and
>>>> was
>>>> one of the first if not the first blind person to obtain a Redhat
>>>> certified engineer certification. That was back in 2001, but I still
>>>> dabble in linux whenever I can.I just discovered this list. I currently
>>>> own a Raspberry Pi model B. To be honest, I haven't done much with it
>>>> yet. This is mainly due to lack of time. I will most likely be using
>>>> it as a PBX server with asterisk.
>>>> I look forward to hearing what others have done or are doing with
>>>> theirs.
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>
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>
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>
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>
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