Martin O’Hanlon, whose work & blog I greatly respect, has created a car dash camera with a Pi and camera module. He has now worked out how to overlay a subtitle file generated from an OBD-II feed from his car. He’s shown off by creating a video of him driving a Lotus Elise around the Castle Coombe track!
Using a #RaspberryPi to control USB traffic light
Marcel Birkner has written a tutorial about getting a USB traffic light working via the Pi. Read more here
#RaspberryPi timelapse photography and encoding to video
Matthew Manning of Raspberry Pi IV Beginners has done an excellent video of how to take timelapse photographs with the Raspberry Pi camera module and then convert them into a video with mencoder. Great job, Matt!
Free Linux Magazines on Android that feature #RaspberryPi
Gary Newell has posted about the availability of several mainstream Linux magazines that are available for free using the Android Kindle app available from the Play App Store. Great titles:
- Linux Format
- Linux User & Developer
- Linux Journal
The first of these two in particular regularly have Raspberry Pi articles. For more information on the app or the magazines, read the Everyday Linux User blog.
Run a Python script on boot on the #RaspberryPi
Matt, at Raspberry Pi Spy, has written a nice little tutorial on using ‘cron’ to run a script whenever the Pi is started up or rebooted. Read here
Book reviews cover Scratch and Minecraft for the #RaspberryPi
Shea Silverman has written two summary book reports for “Super Scratch Programming Adventure” and “Minecraft: Pi Edition Coding How-to”.