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The Raspberry Pi at just $35 I think is one of the most amazing things that has arrived in recent years, bringing low cost computing to schools and hobbyists.
Today however, the Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced the Pi Zero … for $5. Incredible!
If you’re in the UK and can pick up a copy of The MagPi magazine, there’s a free Pi Zero taped to the front cover…
Settings such as HDMI video output are configured in the /boot/config.txt file – you can edit this on the Pi with ‘sudo nano /boot/config.txt’. If you need to edit on another machine, see details here.
This page lists available video modes. On my LG E2341 connected by HDMI, uncommenting and changing these two settings works to set the output to 1080p:
hdmi_group=1
hdmi_mode=16
Default locale and keyboard settings on the Raspberry Pi can be configured using raspi-config on Rasbian.
Select option 4 Internationalization, and select options to configure your locale, timezone and connected keyboard layout.
If you’ve installed Raspbian and kept the defaults you probably ended up with a UK keyboard layout, and if you have a US keyboard, you’re wondering why some of your keys are producing unexpected characters 🙂
There’s probably many ways you could configure a similar setup to this, but here’s what worked for me.
This is for static IP on wired, and a different static IP on wireless, where the wireless is using WPA2. I also have two different routers one for wired and for one wireless. Replace static_ip_here with your required ip addresses, and x and y with the IP addresses for your routers.
Edit /etc/network/interfaces:
auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.1.static_ip_here netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.1.x allow-hotplug wlan0 iface wlan0 inet static address 192.168.0.static_ip_here netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.0.y wpa-ssid "your_ssid" wpa-psk "your passphrase" wpa-pairwise CCMP wpa-group CCMP