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    Question CPU Usage/Speed capped at 24%/0.8GHz

    I had this issue - my (desktop cpu) seemed to be capped at 20%. I noticed the cpu multiplier (i7 6700k) was 8x rather than the usual 42x. Tried bios update etc. to no avail. However I realised I'd just put in a new PSU - after some checking I found the big atx motherboard power connector...
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    News How to Build A Person-Following Creepy Head for Halloween with a Raspberry Pi

    Any tips on getting the pi camera to work? I can't get the rtsp stream to open. Not sure what the rstp uri is.
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    News How to Build A Person-Following Creepy Head for Halloween with a Raspberry Pi

    Any tips on how to get it working with the pi camera? Mine just hangs on setting up servo.
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    News How to Build A Person-Following Creepy Head for Halloween with a Raspberry Pi

    I tried changing the servo_controller to use gpiozero instead of pri.gpio but can't get it to run and get the error "ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'gpiozero'". Guess I'll have to learn how python applications actually work!
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    News How to Build A Person-Following Creepy Head for Halloween with a Raspberry Pi

    I'm also hanging at 'setting up servo'. Am powering the servo separately so only connection in pin 3 for the pwm. ..an ideas?
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    News How to Build A Person-Following Creepy Head for Halloween with a Raspberry Pi

    Doesn't the servo motor need external power as will draw to much current from the gpio?