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Does the Raspberry Pi have Hardware Floating Point support?
There are a few articles around that say it is best to use soft float algorithms on ARM devices, because very few ARM chips have hard float coprocessors. So, does the RPi have hard float support? If so, is it quicker that soft float? (It should be,…
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Setup Raspberry Pi 3 as bluetooth speaker
I am looking for a way to configure the Raspberry Pi 3 as bluetooth speaker using Raspbian Jessie.
What I mean by as bluetooth speaker is use it to receive audio stream via bluetooth using A2DP and play it via speakers connected to the Raspberry Pi…
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Add an external antenna to a Pi 3
Makezine's writeup on the Pi 3 this morning included a somewhat tantalising section:
The other interesting thing on the back of the board, right next to
the wireless radio chip, is something that looks like an unpopulated
UFL antenna, labelled…
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Is it possible to dual boot from the SD card?
Say I wished to have Debian Squeeze and Arch Linux ARM on my SD card. Would it be possible to dual boot from Grub?
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What is the simplest way to setup and run XBMC?
How can I get XBMC on my Raspberry Pi? I'm not particularly interested in running a specific operating system. My primary desire is to run XBMC on a Raspberry Pi.
According to this official post, at least most of the work has been done by the XBMC…
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Powering without using the micro USB
Is it possible to power the device without using the micro USB? For example, is it possible to use PoE (Power over Ethernet)?
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Does Pi3 Wi-Fi support 5 GHz and does it need an extra antenna?
I was wondering if the built-in Wi-Fi supports 5 GHz networks?
Will it need an external antenna to be attached to work properly?
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What's the current draw and supply voltage tolerance?
What's the current draw when the Raspi is at idle (min), and at 100% CPU/GPU (max)?
(With no peripherals/accessories plugged in)
What's the minimum and maximum voltage allowed to run the Raspi stably?
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Can the Pi be potted in epoxy?
In order to completely waterproof some basic electronic circuits, I've often used potting epoxy to stop anything getting to the internals.
However, this has mainly been with stuff using PDIP, which is must more robust than the smaller packages the…
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Using Pi to stream all audio output from my pc to my stereo
My problem is quite simple but I have been unable to find a satisfying solution.
Basically, I want my Raspberry Pi to be connected to my stereo and then play any audio output from my computer via wifi to the PI.
Is there any way to do this easily,…
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tightvncserver - show the same screen on hdmi and vncclient
Can I start tightvncserver to show the same screen on hdmi screen and vncclient?
I tried -alwaysshared, but could see no difference.
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I want to remotely control Pi, using keyboard, mouse on remote (Mac), and have display on Pi hdmi screen as…
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How to stream Netflix on Raspbmc
There are different blog posts and forum threads discussing this and the challenges encountered (Silverlight, DRM, etc.).
Also read about the XBMC Flicks addon.
But, did anyone succeed to stream Netflix content on the Raspberry Pi?
Even more,…
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Virtual keyboard activation
I bought a raspberry pi2 and 7 inch waveshare touchscreen. The SD card came along with the system already flashed. It turns on and everything works, but how do I activate the virtual keyboard. Do I need a USB keyboard initially to do so?
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Setting up a kiosk with Chromium
I'd like to put my Raspberry Pi into a kiosk mode with Chromium directed to my website but I can't seem to figure out how to get it to work. I've been following a few different guides, and the code they have given me has all been slightly different…
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How to connect to WiFi without reboot?
I just put a freshly flashed card (with 2017-09-07-raspbian-stretch-lite) into a Raspberry Pi Zero W.
Then I added these lines:
network={
ssid="myWifiSsid"
psk="myWifiPassword"
}
to /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf.
The data…
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