I presented a topic on Amateur Radio related uses for the Raspberry Pi this evening at my local club, the River City Amateur Radio Communications Society. Here’s a copy of my slides from the presentation on Slideshare:
How to rotate your Raspberry Pi 7″ touchscreen 180 degrees
If you’re using your Raspberry Pi 7″ touchscreen in a case, you might find that if the case has a stand then the screen might be upside down.
You can easily rotate it 180 by adding this line to /boot/config.txt:
lcd_rotate=2
From the FAQ here.
VNC remote desktop to a Raspberry Pi
I normally ssh into my remote Raspberry Pi’s, but if you don’t have then attached to a monitor and need to get a desktop view of what’s going on, a VNC remote connection works great. Step by step instructions here.