Accessories, Reviews, Video

HDMIPi review by Raspberry Pi IV Beginners

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Matt Manning has done his usual sterling job producing a video that reviews the HDMIPi screen. The screen, which was developed jointly between Alex Eames of RasPi.TV and Cyntech, is an HD screen that comes with an acrylic case produced by Pimoroni. The review video is shown below and you can leave Matt a comment on the YouTube page:

My mini-review

I’ve got one of these screens myself and can confirm and agree with Matt’s opinion – it’s a great piece of kit that you should definitely get hold of if you want a portable, high definition screen. The ability to build a Pi into it as well as use it for an additional input make it incredibly flexible. The case keeps everything protected (although it’s quite a job to put together without trapping any dust inside it – great assembly video, though!) and the quality of the screen is exceptional. You can pre-order one here from £75. I picked up a cheap, foldable tablet stand for the screen on eBay.

Accessories, Camera module, Making, Programming, Tutorials

Use an 8×2 LCD display with your Raspberry Pi

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Richard (Average Man) has written a really nice tutorial about using a small 8×2 LCD display with the Pi, using his ProtoCam prototyping board. This is a really great use of the ProtoCam (which is now fully funded on Kickstarter) which makes using one of these small displays feasible (the pins are too close together to use on a standard breadboard). Read the tutorial here.

I’m a proud supporter of the ProtoCam – I think it’s a great product for the price (£9) and I really appreciate the amount of work Richard has put in to writing material around the product – it puts a lot of other KS campaigns to shame!

Camera module, Software, Tutorials

Stream video from your Raspberry Pi camera module

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I know I’ve covered streaming before, but this is just a reminder to myself that the best method I’ve found is using Silvan Melchoir’s RaspiMJPEG which he has combined with a web interface (pictured). All the instructions are available on the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s forum.

Here are the instructions in a nutshell:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
sudo rpi-update

git clone https://github.com/silvanmelchior/RPi_Cam_Web_Interface.git
cd RPi_Cam_Web_Interface
chmod u+x RPi_Cam_Web_Interface_Installer.sh

./RPi_Cam_Web_Interface_Installer.sh install

After the setup finishes, you have to restart your RPi. Now just open up any browser on any computer in your network and enter the IP of the RPi as URL.