Monthly Archives: January 2013

RAID Pi – Raspberry Pi as a RAID file server

By daveh | Published January 31, 2013
This mini-project uses a Raspberry Pi as a RAID array controller.  Now it won’t be the fastest raid controller on the planet, but if you’re only doing a bit of streaming, and a bit of backup, and would like a bit of redundancy, then this solution might be for you. OK, maybe not. The performance will be slow. Very slow. This article is not meant to be a serious solution, I just did it because I could. I did it to see if it would work. And it seemed to.
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Macro Pi – Focus Stacking using Raspberry Pi

By daveh | Published January 17, 2013

Here’s another in the series of articles of photographic uses for the Raspberry Pi SBC (Single Board Computer). This time, it’s re-purposing an old flatbed scanner as a macro rail for focus stacking images in macro photography.

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Drop Pi – Water Droplet Photography with Raspberry Pi

By daveh | Published January 2, 2013

Here’s how to build a Water Drop kit using a Raspberry Pi as a controller for a solenoid valve and camera trigger.

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