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spannerspencer over 9 years ago

I don't know if everyone's aware, but there's a private section of the element14 Community for the Top Members, who are brought in by invite (as decided upon by the existing Top Members and the element14 team), where they discuss matters around the direction of the Community, where they help out with beta testing Community updates, and even test out new products, RoadTests & Reviews-style. But mostly they just go waaaaaay off-topic and descend into rants and raves about which Minion avatar is the strangest, or who has the biggest... soldering iron.image

 

Anyway, in December the Top Members all gathered together around the eggnog tree to exchange techno-gifts, which we (The Management) facilitated to some degree by way of distribution. Now, I know the Christmas season won't get into full swing again until late August, but their Secret Santa gifts are now arriving upon their workshop doorsteps.

 

So I'd like to invite those Top Members to give us all a big unveiling of what they got, who their Secret Santa was and why they chose the gifts they did, and for the whole Community to join in with a few ideas on what these insane elite engineering eccentrics ("improved" meaning for IEEE?) can do with their hot tech gifts.

 

Merry Christmas!

 

 

Hmm? Oh, to become a Top Member is simple, but not easy. All you have to do is make a fantastic contribution to the element14 Community by way of great projects, insightful blogs, helpful suggestions (in Feedback and Support particularly) and generally spending all your free time on here enjoying yourself image  Trust me, these guys see everything that happens, so your efforts aren't going unnoticed image  Keep it up, and you'll be a Top Member in time for this year's Secret Santa!

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    e14 Contributor over 9 years ago

    I love the Raspberry Pi Sense Hat, it took less than 2 minutes to get it up and working! I can see lots of fun playing the RGB led's and the API documentation is very clear and easy to read.

     

    For reference, the box doesnt include the Raspberry Pi 3 on the list of compatible devices but it works just fine.

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    e14 Contributor over 9 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    Whoops spoke too soon, the joystick functions appear to be broken. Copying the examples in the API results in:

     

    AttributeError: 'SenseHat' object has no attribute 'stick'

     

    Looks like I'm going to be delving into sense_hat.py to find a solution

     

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    Having a quick look, the sense_hat.py file that installs through apt-get appears to be different to the sense_hat.py file in the git hubrepo. The apt-get version doesn't include compatibility with the joystick so I'm going to attempt to manually install the github version over the top and see what happens

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    e14 Contributor over 9 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    Ok so I have a fix to get the joystick API working, it involves slightly modifying the sense_hat.py file from the github repo and using that to replace the sense_hat.py file in the /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/sense_hat directory on the raspberry pi, replacing the __init__.py file in the same way and creating a new file called stick.py using the new code from github.

     

    The github repo hasn't been administered since Aug 2016 so I doubt that theres going to be an official fix any time soon, there are a few issues that have gone unanswered on there.

     

    Im happy to write a detailed guide, where would it be best posted?

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    spannerspencer over 9 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    Fantastic, thanks Lucie! We'll look at giving it some promo image

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    e14 Contributor over 9 years ago in reply to spannerspencer

    Ive posted a guide over in Raspberry Pi Accessories like you suggested, there's also a small example program showing how to move a pixel around the display with the joystick image

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    e14 Contributor over 9 years ago in reply to spannerspencer

    Ive posted a guide over in Raspberry Pi Accessories like you suggested, there's also a small example program showing how to move a pixel around the display with the joystick image

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    spannerspencer over 9 years ago in reply to e14 Contributor

    Fantastic, thanks Lucie! We'll look at giving it some promo image

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