Foundation forum member ‘dozencrows’ has modified the ‘Motion’ software used for motion detection for the Raspberry Pi camera module. I’ve tried it myself and it works brilliantly and with only a couple of seconds lag. Instructions on available on the Raspberry…
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Pi Vision – an X-based controller app for the #RaspberryPi camera
Over at heywhatsthebigidea.net, they’ve created an X-windows application that allows you to control the camera module on the Raspberry Pi. Read more and download here
RPi-Monitor v1.4 released for the #RaspberryPi
Xavier Berger has released version 1.4 of his Raspberry Pi monitoring software. Instructions on installing it are available on his blog
Reading RFID tags with the #RaspberryPi
I found this and thought it might be of interest. This is an ongoing project to create a stand-alone kiosk with the Raspberry Pi. The author has moved on to reading RFID tags using a breakout board. Read more here
Play with your cat from work with a #RaspberryPi powered Remote Presence platform
New York-based MadSci is developing a Lab research project to “explore quick, inexpensive and easy deploying of remote-controlled interactions”. The project has been developed with a Raspberry Pi using web socket software Spacebrew Read about this great project over at…
Monitor your internet connection with a #RaspberryPi
Bernhard Suter has worked out a way to monitor the reliability of his internet connection using something called SmokePing. He’s documented it, including all the config files on his blog. Read the blog post here
The #RaspberryPi desktop evolves with Wayland
In an effort to leverage the power of the Pi’s GPU, the Foundation and Collabora have been working on implementing the Wayland protocol on the Pi. The Foundation have covered the news on their blog. Read about it here or watch the…
#RaspberryPi with NoIP software for Dynamic DNS
Matthew Manning over at Raspberry Pi IV Beginners has created a new video that explains how to get dynamic DNS working on your Pi. This allows you to have a static hostname for your Pi even if your actual IP…
Emulate Arduinos on the #RaspberryPi for real-time readings
This is a bit complicated to understand, so I’ll just quote the relevant bits from the Space Apps Challenge page. Proof of concept that threads in a Real Time Operating System for the Raspberry Pi can emulate various Arduinos with…
Virtualization on the #RaspberryPi with vPi (coming soon)
From xtravirt.com: “If you are a VMware evangelist and love the Raspberry Pi, what do you do? You create vPi of course! That was Xtravirt’s co-founder Alex Mittell‘s thought when he decided to put together the vPi project. vPi is…