Notes on things I learn — kept so I don't forget
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2014-01-11
Raspberry Pi - Camera, Python & PiCamera
For my raspberry pi car cam project I needed to find a better way of syncing data with video so I modified raspivid and created python class to run raspivid. I did this hack mainly because I couldn...
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2013-12-07
Raspberry Pi - Auto CD Ripper
I’ve got a lot of CD’s I have never got round to ripping to MP3. I didn’t fancy sitting in front of a PC shovelling them in for hours, so I wrote I little program to automate the ripping using an r...
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2013-12-04
Raspberry Pi - Python & Temp Sensor DS18B20
I got a DS18B20 temperature sensor a little while back and I wanted to get it connected to a Raspberry Pi, so I could temperature in some of my data logging projects. There are a couple of really g...
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2013-11-21
Coding shapes in Minecraft
Over the past 10 months or so, I have created quite a few minecraft projects and in doing so I have also created quite a few functions which I thought other people might find useful. To make it eas...
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2013-11-03
Minecraft Coding a Traffic Jam
I was doing a workshop on Minecraft Coding on the Rapsberry Pi for a group of teachers at Edge Hill University and I wanted to create a stretching challenge.
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2013-10-31
Halloween Pumpkin and Raspberry Pi
I wanted to make my son a hi-tech Halloween Pumpkin which would light up and make scary noises when a unsuspecting zombie, witch or alien walked up to the door, so out came a raspberry pi, PIR sens...
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2013-10-20
Raspberry Pi Car Cam - GPS Data & Map
Ever since I made my car cam which recorded video and overlaid OBD data, I’ve continued to work on the project and in particular on overlaying GPS data. I wanted to create something which was simil...