Raspberry Pi
My Raspberry Pi Blogs
I’ve had a great experience with the Raspberry Pi, these are my Pi blogs:
Tips and Tutorials Run program at start-up - do you need to run a command at start-up of your raspberry pi?
Setting static IP address - giving your pi a static IP address
Connecting a NAS drive at startup - get more disk space for your Pi by connecting it to you NAS or Windows Share
Installing get_iplayer - downloading from BBC iPlayer
Setting up and running get_iplayer - more information about how I setup get_iplayer
Access your Pi from the internet - sign up and install no-ip.com client on the raspberry pi
- I was having problems with XBMC and Raspbmc buffering when streaming from my NAS
Use the Pi as a VPN server - setup the Pi, so you can use it as a VPN server to gain secure access to your internal network
Installing Python modules - how to install additional python modules
Automatic backups of the Pi’s SD Card - I needed a way of automatically backing up my Raspberry Pi, it is now a scheduled job each Monday at 2:30am
Timelapse Video with Raspberry Pi Camera - how to use the Pi and its Camera to create timelapse video’s
Raspbmc - Setup Live TV / PVR - how to setup your raspberry pi and raspbmc to use a USB TV tuner
Compile Raspberry Pi Userland / Raspistill, Raspivid - how to compile the raspberry pi foundation’s userland code repository which contains raspivid and raspivid
Setup Minecraft Server - my ‘recipe’ for setting up a minecraft server on a raspberry pi
Setup Temp Sensor - how to setup a DS18B20 temperature sensor and read data from it using python
Using PiCamera - a quick introduction to PiCamera python module and how to control the camera in code
Setup an Accelerometer - hot to setup a ADXL345 accelerometer and read data from it using python
Projects
Creating a RSS xml file (podcast) using Python - my first python program, which creates an RSS xml file based on the contents on a directory
Create a podcast from iPlayer downloads - my first project which uses the Pi to create and host a podcast of iPlayer downloads
Minecraft Pi - how to installed Minecraft for the Pi, tutorials on how to use the api and a load of examples of things I have done with the API, perhaps a massive clock, a programmable cannon or the game of snake.
Get your Pi to ‘speak’ your twitter feed - using twitter streaming and text to speech, your Pi can recite your twitter feed in real-time
Getting an LED to flash - my first attempt at controlling stuff through the gpio
gpioRap - a python class wrapper to simplify the interaction with the GPIO
A GPIO Game - how many times can you press a button in 2 seconds… Your result comes up in binary!
Google Drive and Grive - using grive to synchronise data with Google Drive
Reading Car Diagnostics Data (OBD2) - using the Pi and an on-board diagnostics USB reader to ‘talk’ to my car
Car Cam overlaid with OBD data - using the Pi camera as a dashboard cam and then overlaying mph, rpm, temperature and throttle position over the video
Syncing data with raspivid video - it was really hard to sync data to video taken with raspivid so I modified raspivid to output frame count in real-time
Run raspivid in Python - a python class I created to control the running and shutdown of raspivid in Python
Setup a GPS receiver and read the data - how to setup a GPS receiver and a python class to control it
Car Cam overlaid with GPS data - gathering GPS data and video and then overlaying a GPS created map on to the video
Halloween Pumpkin & Raspberry Pi - I made my lad a scary pumpkin which made sounds and lit up, it made him cry :( the local children loved it tho.
Random things I found out! First time setup - getting started with the Raspberry Pi debian and raspbian distro’s
- I was experiencing problems with the pi dying with a kernel panic error so I used rpi-update the firmware and kernel
Installing Lighttpd - fixing an error when installing using apt-get
Lighttpd RSS Mime Type - problems getting RSS (podcast) mime types working with Raspbian