Over on the Foundation forum, a chap called ‘jimmyst’ has been working on getting Linux-based security surveillance software Zoneminder to work with the Raspberry Pi camera module. Here’s what he wrote… Here is some progress I made on using Raspberry Pi…
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#RaspberryPi Foundation and OCR launch online resources for GCSE Computing
Fantastic news from the Foundation today. After months of work, a preview of a ‘Massive Open Online Course’ (MOOC) has been launched for the GCSE Computing qualification. In their words: This MOOC will comprise an enormous suite of short, interactive…
A #RaspberryPi HD camcorder using the camera module
Alex Eames, from RasPi.tv, has put together a brilliant project with a model A Raspberry Pi and the camera module (along with lots of other bits). He’s created a camcorder (with GPIO buttons) with a screen and the ability to…
Whistle-stop guide to #RaspberryPi NOOBS
The New-Out-Of-Box-System for the Pi was released a few weeks ago. You can download it here. Matthew Manning from Rapsberry Pi IV Beginners has done a very quick guide to how to use it:
Testing the #RaspberryPi camera automatic exposure settings
Alex over at RasPi.TV has created a script to test the automatic exposure compensation of the official camera module. A video of the output from the script is available on the RasPi.TV website.
Bird feeder cam now online
I’ve set-up my Pi and router so that you can see a live video of a bird feeder in our front garden! I’ve only today filled everything up so there should be a decent amount of avian traffic 🙂 The…
Fast I/O output to a TFT screen on a #RaspberryPi
Jean-Claude Wippler has developed a way to generate images on an LCD TFT touch screen breakout. Part of this has been to use Gordon Henderson’s WiringPi library. He has looked to see how quickly the GPIO pins can be switched…
Use the command line to play videos on the #RaspberryPi
Matt, at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a great little guide to using omxplayer to play videos from the command line. As he points out, this is a great way of playing videos that you’ve recorded from the camera module. Read…
Echo’s Room with Murmur and the #RaspberryPi – visualising sound waves / @Raspberry_Pi
This is an awesome project. “Murmur” is a device which takes spoken sounds and converts them into waves which it then uses as the source for a visual projection that is just stunning. More information can be found on their Project…
#RaspberryPi with 3.2″ touch screen
Mark Williams has worked long and hard to get a small SainSmart touch screen device working with his Raspberry Pi. It may be low resolution, and tiny, but this has an awful lot of applications (I’d love to integrate it…