sounds, sensors, stones
The weather was various shades of atmospheric as we came to Carn Gluze barrow on the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall. To be honest, it was foggy as hell. Let’s look on the bright side, it wasn’t actually raining at the time.The subdued light and damp really made the heather glow
but it didn’t really make for an inspiring picture of the site – a nearby derelict tine mine was lost in the misty gloom Continue reading “Ballowall Barrow”
I got a new Raspberry Pi v4 and the official touchscreen. The aim of this is to be able to run FLdigi and WSJT-X1 in a portable setup. Also to stop FLdigi getting hopelessly confused on my main PC – with two sound cards already adding a third sound card as interface for the radio meant portaudio, whatever that is, gets hopelessly confused on Windows and loses touch with the hardware intermittently.
Setting it up was surprisingly painless – blow a new 16Gb SD card with Raspbian, connect screen to the 5V and 0V on the GPIO and the ribbon cable to DSI. Normally you then have to remember to add the empty file ssh to the boot partition with the PC so you can talk to the damn thing, and perhaps wrangle the wireless config if the Pi doesn’t have Ethernet.
With the touchscreen I didn’t need all that. Although I started it up on ethernet, the onboard Bluetooth meant I could connect a Bluetooth keyboard using just the touchscreen, and then set up the wifi in the usual way. The touchscreen needs a reasonably firm press, this is no responsive smartphone screen, and being so small it is sometimes hard to get the right target, even with a conductive stylus, particularly as I set the font size a little smaller to use the screen area more. Continue reading “Raspberry Pi 4 with touchscreen and FLdigi”
