Can the Raspberry Pi be used to send music to other devices on my network?
Magic Mirror
Being a guy while visiting a shopping city with your girlfriend may cause your mind to drift away while walking thru Macy’s. Or at least, this happened to me while i was visiting New York last january.
Long story short: while wandering around I noticed a mirror with an illuminated sing on it. This is something i could built myself. Only better. I wanted my own Magic Mirror!
How To Install gThumb
Because it is available via PPA, installing gThumb 3.2.3 on Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Elementary OS and Pear OS is easy. All you have to do is add the ppa to the system, update the local repository index and install the gthumb package. Like this:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:dhor/myway
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install gthumb
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
Edmundo Fuentes: Raspberry Pi without keyboard, mouse nor screen.
Edmundo Fuentes: Raspberry Pi without keyboard, mouse nor screen.
I’ve been wanting to mess around with a Raspberry Pi ever since the day it was announced. The thing is, right now I’m studying abroad, so buying a dedicated set of peripherals (keyboard, mouse, screen, etc..) was not an option.
However, it occurred to me that I could use my own MacBook as…
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