Technology, Productivity and Automating Everything…
I’ve been looking at building an outdoor music player for a couple of weeks now. I am looking for something ‘rugged’ that I can take outside and dump on the grass at a picnic or BBQ, Battery operated (about 4-6 hours life), small display to show what is playing, couple…
This weeks ‘Project of the Week’ is Setting up Pi Zero OTG. This is a really neat software only project that effectively allows you to set up a Pi Zero in headless mode without ever having to plug in monitors, keyboards etc. In essence it exploits the fact that the…
This article is about how to configure Wi-Fi on your Raspberry Pi without using the desktop GUI It only takes a minute or so and is basically just entering your Wi-Fi settings into the configuration file. Let’s get started… We’ll need our Pi up and running and you’ll want to…
In this project we are going to set up a FTP server using vsftpd. This is one of the fastest and most secure FTP server for Linux. This will take us around 10 minutes to complete and is solely consists of typing commands to install and configure software. By the…
This project will show you how to use a standard webcam to create a time-lapse video recorder – great for watching the whole day go by in a few minutes. For this we’ll need a Raspberry Pi, a USB webcam (and a portable power source if you want to position…
Managed to get hold of a Pi Zero ? Here’s how to get started with it… The Pi Zero only has a single micro USB port for connecting peripherals. That can make it a little tricking when trying to get things set up. There’s a few bits that you will…
I’ve been trying to get some code running on my Pi 2. The code has been ‘problematic’ to get running, and I’m running into frequent hangs on the Pi where I cannot initiate a new SSH or console session. It’s also complicated because the Pi is outside in the garage…
Okay, first post… It’s been a manic week at Pi Starter HQ, getting everything set up (domain names, hosting, websites, themes, etc) and planning out what things should look like (menus, sidebars, footers etc) but most of that is done, or planned now. I’ve also been putting a lot of…
I thought my ‘Gradle Generate Release Notes’ script might be useful for others, so here you go: If you are using the built in Gradle tool for Android Studio and you want to automagically generate release notes (or a list of commit messages) from Git then this little script might help (whilst it is pretty specific…
I’ve been trying to get some code running on my Pi 2. The code has been ‘problematic’ to get working, and I’m running into frequent hangs on the Pi where I cannot initiate a new SSH or console session. It’s also complicated because the Pi is outside in the garage…
