March 12, 2017 by Daniel P. Clark

Installing the Adafruit 2.8″ TFT Display on the Raspberry Pi

One thing I’ve learned over and over from working on the Raspberry Pi is that it’s most likely going to take a chunk of time to get things set up just the way you want.  And this display is no different. I’ve written in the past about How to Play HD Video on a Raspberry…

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February 3, 2013 by Daniel P. Clark

My Initial Raspberry Pi Raspbian Configuration

So I ordered the Raspberry Pi Version B for $35.  And boy was I surprised at how really small it is. So first thing I did was hook it up.  But I can’t run it without an operating system so I downloaded the Raspbian OS 2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian.zip from http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads. Unzipped it to get 2012-12-16-wheezy-raspbian.img . And then…

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