(World’s first as far as we know!) Rivington Foundation Primary School in Lancashire, UK has had a team of a student and a teacher working on a Raspberry Pi-powered wheeled robot that navigates through mazes. It uses an ultrasonic detector…
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#RaspberryPi cameos on US primetime television show
A few people noticed that a recent episode of the TV show ‘Revolution’ (the one where all electronic equipment dies) featured a slightly modified Raspberry Pi. Here’s a screengrab courtesy of Engadget. And another courtesy of Adafruit:
Streaming from the #RaspberryPi to Windows 7 64-bit
After trying the instructions here to use netcat and mplayer to stream from the Raspberry Pi camera module to Windows, I found that although the cache filled on the Windows machine, indicating that data was being received, mplayer never launched. I…
RasPi.TV does the #RaspberryPi camera module
Alex Eames has done an excellent tutorial on capturing video with the Raspberry Pi camera module and converting it into an MP4 file suitable for video editing with Pinnacle or other video editing software. Head on over to RasPi.TV to…
Bluetooth serial port, redux for #RaspberryPi
Miguel Grinberg has been experimenting with a bluetooth UART serial module. I covered this previously with a different author’s post, but I never got it working. There is a slight change in methodology (and speed of the serial port) here,…
Flashing lines on the #RaspberryPi camera?
If your video recording from the camera module has any kind of flashing on it, try the following: raspivid -fps 25 – o video.h264 This will set the frames-per-second to 25. The flashing is caused by the frequency of artificial…
#RaspberryPi camera module – excellent beginners’ video
Matthew Manning at Raspberry Pi IV Beginners has done an excellent set-up video for the camera module which takes you through the insertion of the cable through to taking video and pictures with it.
Find missing commands on your #RaspberryPi
Just saw this on the Raspberry Pi Forums from ‘sprinkmeier’ but haven’t tried it yet. If, like me, you need to run a command, but it’s not installed, and you haven’t a clue how to find the right apt-get package, this is…
Google I/O AirShow streaming webcam video via @Raspberry_Pi from RC blimps
The Google I/O show, a three-day event featuring all the news that’s fit to print from everyone’s favourite search provider, is currently broadcasting live video from radio controlled blimps. The important news for us is that there is a Raspberry…
Installing avconv on the #RaspberryPi
Some of you with the camera may have been trying to install avconv by using the following: sudo apt-get install avconv As you have probably discovered, this does not work and it reports that it cannot find the package. (I…