I have made a bunch of time lapse videos in the past with my Cannon S90 using the CHDK hacked firmware. These videos turn out great and I have very happy with the results. The problem is that I have to leave my expensive camera unattended for hours or days at a time and I am unable to use the camera while it [...]
COSM is a online data store of sensor data for the internet of things. You can use Cosm to store sensor data (light, temp, heat, etc…) from your internet enabled device (Arduino, Raspberry PI, etc) online and produce pretty graphs of the values as they change. Recently Chipkin Automation Systems (The company I work for) added [...]
A few weeks ago I found this tutorial on make magazine Turning the Raspberry Pi Into an FM Transmitter by Code Club pihack. It uses the hardware on the raspberry pi that is actually meant to generate spread-spectrum clock signals on the GPIO pins to output FM Radio energy. This means that all you need to do [...]
We have been running Raspbberry PI nights at VHS the last few weeks and they have been going really well. Using the Raspberry PI to control a Arduino Raspberry PI + Python + WebIDE + GPIO pins = Blink sketch We are running the Raspberry PIs headless (no keyboard or mouse, using SSH) because VHS [...]
The Raspberry PI is good for a lot of things from computer clusters to home automation but its missing a few things such as a real time clock, terminal/barrel power connector, or Analog pins. The Arduino has analog pins that can be read by the USB virtual serial port from the Raspberry PI. In MagPI issue 7, has a great article on [...]
This week I have been playing with the Rapberry PI, Python and the Python GPIO pins library. Software I started by formatting a SD Card with the Raspbian “wheezy” (2012-12-16) image from Raspberry PI’s website. I followed this tutorial on how to set up the Raspberry PI for the first time. I then enabled SSH so I don’t have to attache a monitor, keyboard [...]
I got a RaspberryPI a few months ago, but with Vancouver Maker Faire and the 281 proposal and all the other things going on in my life I just never got around to playing with it. What’s a Raspberry Pi? The Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard. [...]
I got my new shinny Raspberry PI a few days ago, and got some time to play with it today. I am a windows guy by default and this is my first adventure in to the world of Linux. While getting everything started it up I ran in to these questions. [Q] I have a 700 [...]
I have decided to create a 64x RGB LED POV Globe for Maker faire and Buring man this year. This project is a factor more complex then any other project that I have attempted before, and quite a bit more expensive. My project will be similar to this project watch?v=4KN0xoHsUiI But my project has more LEDs, it will play almost [...]
I picked up a pair of Hesh Skullcandy and they sounded great at the store. But when I got home and plugged them in to my phone it sounded dull, like it was missing all the treble. I connected them to my computer thinking it might be some setting or something with my phone, same [...]
Canon S90 CHDK CHDK (Canon Hack Development Kit) is a community build open source alternative firmware for canon cameras. CHDK features are; RAW files, bracketing, full manual control over exposure, Zebra-Mode, Live histogram, Grids, and most important scripting. Upgrading to this custom firmware can be tricky but they have tried to make it as easy as possibly with the application CardTricks. I have installed this firmware on several [...]
A little while ago i got assigned to do an audit of all the PCs in our network. I could have taken the time to check every one of the computes one by one and write down what hardware was on each one but that would have taken the whole day instead I used this [...]
When you take a snap shot with your digital camera your camera also saves some extra meta information to the file called Exif data. Different camaras save different information to the Exif portion of your picture most of the time it will contains information like Manufacturer, Model, Orientation, Software, Date and Time, YCbCr Positioning, Compression, [...]
Whenever I have to go searching for a driver and the company’s web page is down or no longer supports this driver, I post the driver here so people that come after me might have a easier time finding it. I hate searching for drivers. Y-105 USB to RS 232 Converter (DB9) Drivers