Project Looking Glass
Office-to-office video screens using Raspberry Pis
The PirateJukeBox
The PirateJukeBox is a wifi controlled music player, housed in an old ghettoblaster. It takes the PirateBox idea one step further by letting people play music, add their own music, or grab what’s currently playing using a wifi access point.
I used a RaspberryPi together with a USB Wifi stick, and fitted them inside the old boombox, onto which I soldered an internal 3,5mm audio connector. On the Pi, there’s the original PirateBox software running, alongside with an MPD server, that can be controlled from any laptop or mobile device.
Currently, it still has to be powered from mains power, but I hope to make it portable in the future.
Webmin
This is really useful if you want to control your RPi with a web browser.
1. sudo wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin-1.580.tar.gz 2. sudo tar -zxvf webmin-1.580.tar.gz 3. sudo mkdir -p /var/www/webmin 4. cd webmin-1.580 5. sudo sh setup.sh /var/www/webmin
http://localhost:10000/
A Raspberry Pi Camera Controller
A Raspberry Pi Camera Controller
Pi Vision is a Graphical User Interface for the recently introduced Raspberry Pi Camera.
Raspberry Pi Automatic Video Looper
Raspberry Pi Automatic Video Looper
How to set up the looper
- Copy this image to an SD card following these directions
- Put your video files in the /home/pi/videos directory
- Plug it in
Features
- Supports all raspberry pi video types (mp4,avi,mkv,mp3,mov,mpg,flv,m4v)
- Supports subtitles (just put the srt file in the same directory as the videos)
- Reduces time between videos
- Allows spaces and special characters in the filename
- Allows pausing and skipping
- Full screen with a black background and no flicker
- SSH automatically enabled with user:pi and password:raspberry
- Allows easy video conversion using ffmpeg (ffmpeg INFILE -sameq OUTFILE)
- Has a default of HDMI audio output with one quick file change (replace -o hdmi with -o local in startvideos.sh).
- Can support external HDDs and other directories easily with one quick file change (Change FILES=/home/pi/videos/ to FILES=/YOUR DIRECTORY/ in startvideos.sh)
Updating Raspberry Pi: Packages, Kernel, and Firmware.
Updating Packages
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
This updates the package list and upgrades all the packages. You can use the -y flag if you hate typing yes. After the kernel and all packages are upgraded, this command should show you:
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded
Updating the Kernel
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade
This upgrades your linux kernel distribution. These are regularly released. You can see which version you have by running:
uname -a
Updating the Firmware
sudo rpi-update
This upgrades the firmware as long as you have the Hexxeh script downloaded. It and instructions can be found here: https://github.com/Hexxeh/rpi-update
Raspberry Pi as low-cost HD surveillance camera – CodeProject
Raspberry Pi as low-cost HD surveillance camera – CodeProject
This article describes how to build a surveillance cam based on a Raspberry Pi micro-computer which records HD video when something moves in the monitored area. Live picture can be viewed from any web browser, even from your mobile while you’re on the road.
What you will get:
- See live stream in any web browser from anywhere
- Record any motion into video file
RPi Wall Clock
A Raspberry Pi Digital Wall Clock