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OnOff SHIM (micro-USB) Reviews

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Michael Wall
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Handy little addition to any pi
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Posted 6 years ago
Nice neat little board perfect for one of my projects. My only suggestion would be to include an insulative pad to prevent the SHiM shorting to the Pi if soldered too close/knocked.
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Posted 6 years ago
I'm using this on a Raspi3 for my boat running Open Plotter and had some issues at first because I had the 1-wire buss enabled. Thanks to the Pimoroni Forum I was able to make it work by turning the 1-wire buss off in the Raspberry Pi Setup Interfaces tab app and then later move the default GPIO pin for the 1-wire buss to a different GPIO pin (In my case GPIO 23/ BCM 23) and get the 1-wire interface working again so now I'll be able to add temperature sensors for my outboard motor and my livewell as well as have a soft On/Off function like a professional quality device Now I'm going to get another for my Retropie arcade setup
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Posted 6 years ago
Where's the schematic? I would like to know what I would be buying exactly.
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Posted 7 years ago
Adrian Cottle
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I purchased this as its a great idea for my arcade machine. Only reason for 4 stars was that it was a little fiddly to set up the software. I had an 403 error and had to remove a file to get it to install ok. Once it did it worked great!
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Posted 7 years ago
Adrian Cottle
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This is a great idea and allows the pi to boot up easily. however I tried it with a couple of images I had and all would not work, coming up with a 403 error which means the script cant be automatically installed. All it would take is some instructions to manually install and run the script and I've had very poor responce and help. Rather frustrating.
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Posted 7 years ago
Like the tool; works well, though I found the shutdown behaviour a bit surprising. Only substantial issue was that the soldering was tricky. A video or tip page would be helpful! Also, once soldered, my pi zero would not fit in my pibow. Not a big deal but a surprise
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Posted 7 years ago
Was just delivered today. Soldered the header on, plugged in and it works great right out the gate! Follow the comment from Mike Pelton!! I will likely buy a few more of these for my Zeros as well!
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Posted 7 years ago