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In my previous article, I described how to set up a Raspberry Pi High Quality camera as an IP camera, and use IP Camera Adapter to plug this into your favourite video conference software. Now, go one better, with just a singe USB cable and zero networking!
Continue reading “Raspberry Pi Zero with Pi Camera as USB Webcam”
The wonderful people at Raspberry Pi were good enough to send me their latest piece of hardware, the Raspberry Pi High Resolution Camera, plus a couple of lenses. As well as taking a few landscape shots and just generally playing about with it, the first real project was to set it up as a High Quality webcam for video conference meetings. Mainly because of the high quality sensor was bound to give better pictures than the small sensor webcams I have lying about, but also because there seems to be a shortage of decent WebCams available with all that’s going on in the world at the moment.
Continue reading “Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera setup for low-latency Video Conferencing”
Recently I started a project using ws2811 RGB Pixel drivers, and wanted to write some software on a Raspberry Pi, ESP8266 or ESP32 that bit-banged the GPIO ports to generate the data stream suitable to drive the pixels.
Continue reading “LHT00SU1 Logic Analyser”
I had a need recently to make a quick PCB for a pixel controller I’m working on, and I usually send them off to a fab to be manufactured. Sometimes I’m a bit impatient, and this was a fairly straightforward design, single sided for the most part, so I made a couple with the DIY technique described below.
Continue reading “DIY PCB Manufacture”
I recently started playing with Grafana as a dashboard to keep an eye on my local network of IOT devices, and it’s turned out to be very useful on more than one occasion so far.
Continue reading “IOT Monitoring with Grafana”
Ever since I put a mailbox out on my front gate, I have to check it manually to see if the postman has delivered any mail. That involves getting out of my car on the way in or out, or (ugh) walking all the way out to the post box! So, I’ve now installed a Raspberry Pi by the post box to send a text whenever something is put in the post box!
Continue reading “Mail-Pi – Raspberry Pi Post Box SMS Notifier”
Over a year ago I did an article about a DIY alarm system I’d build based on Raspberry Pi’s. I’ve recently done an update, and this time I’ve cleaned up the code and released it onto GitHub. It’s based on Node-Red and Python.
Continue reading “AlarmPi – Raspberry Pi Security Alarm Pt.2”
Normally my blog contains articles on making, electronics, DIY, etc. This once, I’d like to cover a topic that’s quite different – Movember.
Continue reading “Off Topic – Movember”
I decided a few months ago to cut the cord and get rid of my Sky TV subscription. Between a combination of purchasing and returning a Saorview Connect box, and trying out various front ends, here’s the end-result, and I’m delighted with it. Continue reading “New TV Distribution System (No More Sky)”
I didn’t think there’d be another car audio post so soon, but about 8KG of noise reduction matting arrived in the post, so I though I’d give it a go. This is not something that is directly related to the sound system in the car, but more to do with reducing road noise so the music can be heard more clearly whilst driving. Continue reading “Car Audio System Upgrade – Part 3”