Steve Hickson has just released the second version of his voice command software in which you can issue voice commands to your Raspberry Pi and have configured actions happen in response.
Pi-Rex, a bark-activated door opener with the #RaspberryPi
David Hunt has created a mechanism that detects the noise of his dog barking and then opens the back door to allow her to go out for a comfort break. It involves a noise detection circuit, an actuator and a pulley system together with a motor controller board.
It’s really great work – read more about it on his blog. There’s a video on there to show it in action, too!
Two high-resolution images from the #RaspberryPi camera module
By popular demand, here are two uncompressed images from the camera module.
Click ’em to see the large versions
High resolution time lapse from the official #RaspberryPi camera module
In response to a request on the Foundation forum, here’s a high-resolution (2592×1944) time-lapse video of a bird table type thing we have in our front garden on 12th May 2013 in changeable weather and lighting conditions. It’s not very long as it started to rain and my pan/tilt rig is not watertight yet! Here’s the command I used to get the high-res movie produced on the Pi:
mencoder "mf://*.jpg" -mf fps=10 -o test.avi -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4v2:vbitrate=800
RaspberryPi GPIO in C++
Hussam Al-Hertani over at hertaville.com has written an excellent tutorial, with code and breadboard diagram, on how to control the GPIO through C++. Read the tutorial here
Using the Nook Simple Touch as a #RaspberryPi screen
Meltwater’s done it again. This time, he’s worked out how to hack the Nook Simple Touch to be a remote display for the Raspberry Pi.
