On Tuesday, 13 January 2015 15:15:16 UTC, Jonathan wrote: > > > An indoor/outdoor thermometer, using DS18B20 sensors and the Pixie tubes I > got from Walt a coupleof months back. It's only a lashup but I wanted to > play with my new Pixies. You can do some fun "casino" effects with these > tubes, spining around and such. > > I also go my Raspberry Pi working and talking to my favorite uC, but that > is a post for another forum. > > Jonathan >
That's neat - I also got 8 pixies but have not yet powered them up. Also been doing a bit with RPis - just used two B+ versions to turn dumb 40"+ flat screens into smart wallboard monitors - interrogates max pixel depth & resolution over HDMI, sets the screen to max resolution with no borders, sets up an equivalent frame buffer on the Pi and then runs the matchbox window manager & chromium in app mode to display the pages full screen with no boarders or titles, mouse etc. If the TV is turned off or the HDMI unplugged, the Pi goes through the query & set cycle again so you can swap screens etc. and it'll always be full colour depth and full screen size. RPis are good at this sort of stuff. Nick -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "neonixie-l" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/neonixie-l/d01ee39b-1314-4b98-9502-a276071b1c0d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
