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Tiny Core Base => Raspberry Pi => Topic started by: Paulo on April 04, 2013, 06:21:57 AM

Title: Questions about TC for the RPI
Post by: Paulo on April 04, 2013, 06:21:57 AM

Hi all
I belong to a local electronics club and they are thinking of getting some Raspberry Pi´s to teach the younger members interfacing for real world applications.
Naturally I want to recomend that TC be used but have a few questions about it.

1) Can one use hsetroot just like the x86 version to change the wallpaper?

2) Is sound/alsa available to enable the playback of wav files?

3) Can one use copy2fs.cfg to put everything into RAM and then remount the boot drive as ´ro´?

4) What programing languages/compilers are available to enable gpio access?
Another way would be the use of scripts to acess the gpio
For example:

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#!/bin/sh
echo "4" >/sys/class/gpio/export
echo "out" >/sys/class/gpio/gpio4/direction

Lastly, I assume that wbar and jwm are also available.
Sorry about all the questions but I want to ensure that TC will be the right choice before recommending it.
Thanks.

Title: Re: Questions about TC for the RPI
Post by: bmarkus on April 04, 2013, 08:01:20 AM

Hi Paolo,

1) Yes

2) Yes

3) Yes

4) All major languages are available: C/C++, Python, Perl, Ruby, Fortran, VALA, LUA, BASIC. The Python GPIO modul is available in the repository.

5) piCore offers the same graphical envionment as TC, WBAR + FLWM_TOPSIDE + FLTK, this is piCore-X. LXDE is also available. JWM is in progress.

Title: Re: Questions about TC for the RPI
Post by: Paulo on April 04, 2013, 09:54:48 AM

Hi bmarkus and thank you for the answers.
piCore for the PIs it is.

Title: Re: Questions about TC for the RPI
Post by: phillip.toone on April 14, 2013, 10:14:57 PM

Quote from: bmarkus on April 04, 2013, 08:01:20 AM

2) Yes

What package would I use/install to have sound?  I was using

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system("sox buzz1.wav -t alsa");
inside my C code on Arch to play my audio file.  Can you point me in the right direction to do something like this on piCore?

Title: Re: Questions about TC for the RPI
Post by: phillip.toone on April 14, 2013, 10:54:14 PM

Quote from: phillip.toone on April 14, 2013, 10:14:57 PM

Can you point me in the right direction to do something like this on piCore?

Here is an answer to my own question for others to make use of.  I installed all the packages that started with alsa so I'm not sure which package I really needed.  Anyway, it installed aplay and I use it in my code as follows:

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system("aplay buzz1.wav");