{"id":11082,"date":"2014-09-25T07:38:32","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T07:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11082"},"modified":"2014-09-28T16:11:52","modified_gmt":"2014-09-28T16:11:52","slug":"pitft-tutorials-updated-with-new-raspbian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11082","title":{"rendered":"PiTFT tutorials updated with new Raspbian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0176\/3274\/products\/100291.jpg?resize=560%2C560\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"560\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Adafruit has updated the tutorials for their small screen, the PiTFT with the latest version of Raspbian (9\/9\/2014). I\u00a0<em>believe<\/em> this means the image is now compatible with the B+, but don&#8217;t quote me on that. It should contain the driver for the new ethernet chip, though. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/24\/updated-tutorials-2-8-resistive-2-8-capacitive-and-3-5-resistive-pitft-tutorials\/\" target=\"_blank\">Take a look here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adafruit has updated the tutorials for their small screen, the PiTFT with the latest version of Raspbian (9\/9\/2014). I\u00a0believe this means the image is now compatible with the B+, but don&#8217;t quote me on that. It should contain the driver&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11082\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[54,15,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-distros","category-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>PiTFT tutorials updated with new Raspbian - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11082\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"PiTFT tutorials updated with new Raspbian - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Adafruit has updated the tutorials for their small screen, the PiTFT with the latest version of Raspbian (9\/9\/2014). 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