Contents - Raspberry PI Community Projects

Home automation
▪ Tellstick (www.telldus.com), installation instructions
▪ Depends on libftdi1
Touch Screen
▪ ACER T230H touch screen [39] (http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/monitor/
2009/acer/t230h/t230hnv.shtml)
▪ USB TS identifies as "Quanta Computer, Inc. Optical dual-touch panel",
module hid_quanta
▪ Seems to draw over 200 mA from USB!
Floppy Disk Drive
▪ Samsung USB Floppy Drive SFD-321U/HP
▪ I suppose a floppy drive might be considered exotic nowadays!
▪ LSUSB lists it as Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co. Floppy Disk Drive
▪ Only tried connected to a powered USB hub, as the drive is labelled 5V
at 0.5A on a Raspberry Pi running Debian Wheezy.
▪ tail -f /var/log/syslog looking for mount device when plugged in, came
up as SDA in testing.
▪ sudo mkdir /media/floppy
▪ sudo mount /dev/sda /media/floppy
▪ Contents of floppy now available in /media/floppy
▪ To remove drive, ensure no sessions have the floppy directory as the
current working directory.
▪ sudo umount /media/floppy
USB Missile Launcher
▪ USB Missile Launcher / Rocket Launcher sold in UK by Marks and Spencer but
also sold under a range of other names.
▪ USB ID 1130:0202 Tenx Technology, Inc. Use apt-get install pymissile
(python code) and there is C code at usbmissile from Source Forge
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/usbmissile/)
USB Docking Stations
▪ StarTech USB 3.0 to Dual 2.5"/3.5" SATA HDD Dock (SATDOCK2U3GB)
▪ This is an externally powered dual sata HDD docking station, which has
USB2.0 compatibility with the Pi.
▪ Tested with latest raspbmc and debian wheezy raspbian, 3.1.9+ #168