Submitted by drew on

 

I have several of the original Model B and B+. I also have one 2.0. I would like to use the same cards on all of my Pis, because who wants to keep track of which card is for which unit? Not me.

First, I read this article and mine was already up-to-date with everything mentioned.

When I first put a card from a Model B+ into the 2.0, it didn't finish booting. It got part way through and then got stuck and eventually tried rebooting. Once, it got booted, but the opening video that plays at startup had artifacts on it and never got to the desktop. I figured it might be an issue with speed/timing. So back in the Model B+, I set overclocking to none (sudo raspi-config). After that, it worked in the 2.0.

However, no overclocking is kind of lame, especially in the old models. So the question is, what overclock settings work in all of my units? I've tried this in all of my chips and it works in both of my Pi units that I have at hand (B+ and 2.0). This is the Pi2 overclock setting, but with 6v overvolt instead of 2v overvolt. Since this option isn't in the raspi-config, edit the over_voltage line in /boot/config.txt (can do it in Windows or on the Pi).

arm_freq=1000
core_freq=500
sdram_freq=500
over_voltage=6

 

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Timer

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The timer's appearance and the format of the time (and text) is very configurable. You can hide it's border, it's background, set the color and glow effects.

Sound Recorder

This is a simple recorder that records directly to an MP3 file. Recording can be paused and resumed.

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RocketDock with multiple bars\docks

Submitted by drew on

It seems there is plenty of interest about how to make RocketDock work with two or more docks or bars. Most answers say to use additional docking programs--one for each dock you want. Or use a commercial program that offers multiple docks. I think RocketDock is excellent except I want more than one. I finally figured out how to do it!

Let's first point out that RD is licensed under the Creative Commons license and it explicitly says "You are free... to Remix--to adapt the work." And also to redistribute.