Ben Heck, celebrity hacker, has taken a Pi, an Arduino and a servo and created a webcam which can be moved according to commands sent to it via a chat app. Watch his video below:
Ben Heck’s Raspberry Pi Shop Cam – The Ben Heck… by BenHeckShow
Linux User magazine launches new Raspberry Pi-focused digital mag
Linux User and Developer magazine has just announced the launch of a new digital magazine: RasPi. This is dedicated to the Pi and the first issue is out with 52 pages. The first issue covers the creation of a ‘drone’ – which has been covered in the main magazine before, so we can probably expect some of the material in this new publication to be reprints of the original, with some new content thrown in. The issues only cost 69p and, unfortunately, are only available via iTunes. Hopefully they release it on Android or some other platform soon. Read more here.
Line following robot does it’s work with the Raspberry Pi camera
17-year-old student Arne Baeyens has taken a Pi, a camera module and a controller board and built a line-follower robot. He took part in the RoboCup Junior competition in May with the robot and came third. He has done a, just, brilliant account of how his robot does it’s job over on the Raspberry Pi Foundation blog. Read it here. You can see a video of the robot in action below:
Live streaming the Raspberry Pi camera to a Windows PC
Brynlea Gibson has done a comprehensive video tutorial on getting video streaming working with a piece of software called gstreamer. It’s been a while since I’ve showcased a tutorial on this subject and some of them have become out-of-date, so if you’re having trouble, give this a go.
Cleaning USB drives of nasties with the Raspberry Pi
The Foundation has covered the work of a bunch of investigative journalists and hackers who have been using the Raspberry Pi to help clean USB flash drives and extract data from them. Apparently it’s quite a problem in developing countries where journalists receive information on flash drives that may or not be trusted. You can read more about it on the Foundation’s blog. It’s fairly complex but it’s another amazing use for the Pi.
Focusing the Raspberry Pi camera without breaking it
Thanks to RasPi.Today for spotting this one
Although the Raspberry Pi Foundation has covered this topic here, George Wang has created a video with what is arguably a better way of doing the same job of focusing the lens on the camera module. You can view his video below: