{"id":2703,"date":"2013-01-12T14:40:05","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T21:40:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2703"},"modified":"2013-01-21T10:49:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T17:49:35","slug":"the-rpi-enthroned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2703","title":{"rendered":"The RPi Enthroned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder how many <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi<\/a> boards will spend their entire working lives sitting cockeyed on a desk somewhere, at the center of a tangle of cables. That&#8217;s how mine was until a couple of days ago, when despite my cough I allowed myself a few minutes of quality screwdriver time to pull a proper RPi system together.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/workstation_500wide.jpg\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto\" height=\"416\" alt=\"workstation-500wide.jpg\" width=\"499\"\/><\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t take much. Mostly what it took was a 2004-era Dell SX270 all-in-one system minus the SX270, which I now use as a bookend. The key component is a heavy stainless steel base with a VESA monitor mount and a bracket to hold the SX270 behind the monitor. The monitor itself is an unexceptional Dell 1704fp, with a native resolution of 1280 X 1024. (Those now sell for ~$50 on eBay.) That&#8217;s more than enough pixels for an RPi, although I tested it on one of my 21&#8243; 1600 X 1200 behemoths and the little gadget did quite well overall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BackView_500wide.jpg\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; DISPLAY: block; MARGIN-LEFT: auto; MARGIN-RIGHT: auto\" height=\"665\" alt=\"BackView-500wide.jpg\" width=\"499\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I had already mounted the board on an aluminum plate, and all I had to do this time was drill two holes and bolt the plate to the SX270 mounting bracket. I may dress the wires a little to keep them from placing any torque on the connectors, but it works well as-is.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised to find out that the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themagpi.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MagPi<\/a><\/em> magazine is actually laid out on an RPi, using the open-source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribus.net\/canvas\/Scribus\" target=\"_blank\">Scribus<\/a> layout program. I installed Scribus via apt-get and poured some text into a layout. (I&#8217;ve been playing with Scribus for years.) Brisk! I guess we need to stop boggling at the capabilities of tiny little computers with all of two ICs on the mobo.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly does a good job with FreePascal and Lazarus, which is why I went to all this trouble. They&#8217;ve now sold half a million of these things. At least a few of those people ought to be willing to buy a Lazarus tutorial for it. We&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder how many Raspberry Pi boards will spend their entire working lives sitting cockeyed on a desk somewhere, at the center of a tangle of cables. 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