James Hobson and his team at Chico State University have created a device to monitor drivers and their facial movements to determine if they are looking at the road. They’ve used a Pi and camera module plus OpenCV to do…
Category: Software
Network monitoring with MRTG on the #RaspberryPi
Muhammad Furqan has written a tutorial about using the Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) software on the Pi. The software uses Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) to monitor network devices and draw graphs showing how much traffic has passed through interfaces…
Android Apps for #RaspberryPi – RasPi.TV picks the best ones
Alex has researched a ton of Android apps and written a great article on the best ones over at RasPi.TV. Read all about them here
#RaspberryPi inside a Gameboy console
This isn’t the first time this has been done, but it’s certainly the most complete solution I’ve seen. Anton MacArthur has taken an old Gameboy handheld console, a 3″ LCD screen and a USB SNES controller and done some hackery…
Plan your travel on the #RaspberryPi using GraphHopper
Peter Karussell, over on dzone, has blogged about using the open source Java software GraphHopper to do road routing on the Pi. Just imagine if you could combine this with a touch screen and a GPS module – Pi-powered TomTom!…
Open Source Limelight brings streamed gaming to your #RaspberryPi
Limelight is a piece of open source software that lets you stream games from your home PC to your Raspberry Pi. Here’s what The Gadget Show has to say about it: Limelight makes use of similar game streaming magic to…
Block browser ads using your #RaspberryPi as a proxy
Chris Mobberley has figured out how to use a piece of software called Privoxy to handle the stripping of pop-up ads from web pages. Read how he did it here
Web app opens up #RaspberryPi camera controls
Zoe has written a piece on silvermelchoir’s app that allows you to control your Raspberry Pi camera module through a browser. It includes video and photo taking and also video streaming in the browser. Read it here
Stream music from your #RaspberryPi with CherryMusic
Over at raspberrypihelp.net, they’ve written a tutorial to get CherryMusic working on your Pi. They’ve called it a Spotify look-a-like, although I can’t see a huge similarity, but it certainly seems to be a way of doing the streaming. Read…
Use the #RaspberryPi as a syslog server
Muhammad Furqan has written an in-depth piece on intenseschool.com about using the Pi to record syslog messages sent from multiple network devices. Read more here