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Instructions for setting up touch display with Raspberry Pi running Arch linux. This is a brand-new release using DSI display port.
Follow instruction here to setup, and also Video Instruction here There is a official mechanical drawing in case you needed. Remember to make a full system upgrade to enable the touch screen driver (in my case, both for Arch ...
It is always fascinating when the virtual reality starts to compete with real world, particularly when one can track user’s locomotion, head movement, gestures, EEG and vital statistics etc. Here is just a little teaser project about virtual reality.
There is always different ways to achieve the same goal. This is very true in programming, so is in life. Most times we like to think there is only one way – our way.
This is a good tutorial for this subject and Arduino Experimenter’s Guide for NodeJS.
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In the process of developing a device, we come across a situation that we needed a responsive way to abort the device; However Arduino will be stuck in the middle of loop and only response after that, esp when the only communication to Arduino is via a serial port. We have adapted a very wasteful way of putting the whole ...
From official site: “The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video.”
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Following are some quite notes about intallation of Ubuntu Server.
ClamAV Antivirus -preinstalled already
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Multi-views represent a setup when multiple display devices are attached to a computer. This is an easy configuration adapted from Arch office site.
Three ways to setup multiple-head displays with xrandr:
This should only be used in some case, including emacs and java. Emacs has ahistorical bug, that under en_US.UTF-8 or similar locale, it will never use XIM (Though emacs is a gtk app, it use XIM). The only way to walkaround this is to use LC_CTYPE to fix this.
This was one of most obnoxious problems. With installation of my favorite Sougou(搜狗) IME, I can input Chinese ...
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The time switch back and forth between two systems between Windows 7 and Arch Linux in a dual-boot system. The RTC will changes when boot up windows, and Arch will complain about possible modification in future.
UTC in Windows One reason users often set the RTC in localtime is to ...