Raspberry Pi - Who's gonna have a dabble?
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FunkyNige said:
Am I the only person fascinated by this stream, been watching it on and off since Thursday waiting for the 8 eggs to hatch.Edited by ModMan on Tuesday 3rd May 09:53
ModMan said:
FunkyNige said:
Am I the only person fascinated by this stream, been watching it on and off since Thursday waiting for the 8 eggs to hatch.Edited by ModMan on Tuesday 3rd May 09:53
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIUtq0GZ1Z8
If anyone here has thought of sending a Pi up into the Stratosphere to take photos like the one below, the Raspberry Pi foundation are running a 2.5 day course on high altitude ballooning this summer - see https://www.raspberrypi.org/picademy/skycademy/
It's one day of learning about the practicalities - e.g. applying for permission, running predictions to see where it's going to land, making a GPS/radio tracker, and building the payload; one day actually flying it and chasing the flight across East Anglia, then a half-day presenting and sharing your experience.
Oh, and get you get to listen to me drone on ...
Dave
It's one day of learning about the practicalities - e.g. applying for permission, running predictions to see where it's going to land, making a GPS/radio tracker, and building the payload; one day actually flying it and chasing the flight across East Anglia, then a half-day presenting and sharing your experience.
Oh, and get you get to listen to me drone on ...
Dave
ModMan said:
Am I the only person fascinated by this stream, been watching it on and off since Thursday waiting for the 8 eggs to hatch.
I often have it on my second screen at work to see what she's up to. We think she laid the 8th egg on Wednesday which would put their 'due date' either late this week or at the weekend (a quick Google says 10-12 days after the last egg is laid).The stream doesn't cost be anything and I don't get any money from it so feel free to spread it around.
ModMan said:
FunkyNige said:
Am I the only person fascinated by this stream, been watching it on and off since Thursday waiting for the 8 eggs to hatch.Does anyone have experience of setting up a pi with a camera using a battery? We've badger sets, woodpeckers, tawny owls and a Buzzard nest in the wood that's crying out for something like this, but unlike our blue-tit box that's close to the house, we'd need a different power source...
weeboot said:
I'm concerned about the location of your camera...
As in "it'll scare things off"?I'm not planning to do anything daft. We've already put a couple of owl boxes in the wood that now have nests in, this would simply be putting another up with a camera in it, I'm not going to touch anything there already.
Woodpeckers & Buzzards would be more difficult as I could only put a different type of camera up on a neighbouring tree instead, and since the badgers walk everywhere some kind of box on the ground would do, presumably with a movement detector which would kick the thing into action. The badgers used to walk past our kitchen every dusk for a few years until something spooked them and they didn't do it again. Badgers are absolute creatures of habit so putting a camera by the side of one of their many paths they have made in the wood is a piece of cake.
daveake said:
If anyone here has thought of sending a Pi up into the Stratosphere to take photos like the one below, the Raspberry Pi foundation are running a 2.5 day course on high altitude ballooning this summer - see https://www.raspberrypi.org/picademy/skycademy/
It's one day of learning about the practicalities - e.g. applying for permission, running predictions to see where it's going to land, making a GPS/radio tracker, and building the payload; one day actually flying it and chasing the flight across East Anglia, then a half-day presenting and sharing your experience.
Oh, and get you get to listen to me drone on ...
Dave
Holy sIt's one day of learning about the practicalities - e.g. applying for permission, running predictions to see where it's going to land, making a GPS/radio tracker, and building the payload; one day actually flying it and chasing the flight across East Anglia, then a half-day presenting and sharing your experience.
Oh, and get you get to listen to me drone on ...
Dave
t that's fking awesome!Magic919 said:
PI in the sky projects have been done a few times.
Strangely enough, I know.www.daveakerman.com
I've been struggling with buffering in Kodi for a while, I've tried a bunch of things to fix it, switching from OpenElec to DietPI and loads of other stuff, then I chanced upon a forum post somewhere suggesting that Kodi doesn't handle access to SMB shares very well.
So, seeing as I'd already got the shares my media is stored on mounted via fstab, I've deleted everything from the Kodi libraries and re-added them via the local mount points.
Boom, problem solved!
Amazing really, even over my crappy TP-Link EoP setup, it's flawless!
So, seeing as I'd already got the shares my media is stored on mounted via fstab, I've deleted everything from the Kodi libraries and re-added them via the local mount points.
Boom, problem solved!
Amazing really, even over my crappy TP-Link EoP setup, it's flawless!
daveake said:
If anyone here has thought of sending a Pi up into the Stratosphere to take photos like the one below, the Raspberry Pi foundation are running a 2.5 day course on high altitude ballooning this summer - see https://www.raspberrypi.org/picademy/skycademy/
It's one day of learning about the practicalities - e.g. applying for permission, running predictions to see where it's going to land, making a GPS/radio tracker, and building the payload; one day actually flying it and chasing the flight across East Anglia, then a half-day presenting and sharing your experience.
Oh, and get you get to listen to me drone on ...
Dave
That looks awesome, shame it is during the week though, (being a contractor I find it hard to justify having the time off!)It's one day of learning about the practicalities - e.g. applying for permission, running predictions to see where it's going to land, making a GPS/radio tracker, and building the payload; one day actually flying it and chasing the flight across East Anglia, then a half-day presenting and sharing your experience.
Oh, and get you get to listen to me drone on ...
Dave
Anyone got any thoughts on something to use as a media manager on the Pi?
I've got one spare which I'm building up as an Fr24 receiver, so it'll have some spare capacity.
I currently use Tiny Media Manager on my PC to manage all media on my NAS (Films, TV, etc) but I'd quite like something to sit in the background working on that.
Any thoughts?
TMM is here -> http://www.tinymediamanager.org/
Although I've just noticed that it's multi OS, but I was rather hoping for a daemon/cron related affair..
I've got one spare which I'm building up as an Fr24 receiver, so it'll have some spare capacity.
I currently use Tiny Media Manager on my PC to manage all media on my NAS (Films, TV, etc) but I'd quite like something to sit in the background working on that.
Any thoughts?
TMM is here -> http://www.tinymediamanager.org/
Although I've just noticed that it's multi OS, but I was rather hoping for a daemon/cron related affair..
I have just today completed a window blind and general electrical socket controller using a Pi2 with a PiFace2 I/O board connected to a Sainsmart 8 relay board which is in turn connected to a rolling code transmitter from Jarolift. It is nothing fancy, all the timing is loaded into an array and is repeated each day but it means that if we go away for the weekend everything continues to run as normal.
All my own work from concept to execution so I am pretty chuffed.
All my own work from concept to execution so I am pretty chuffed.
Just make sure it's a later spec DVB-T stick.
I had a couple donated and they didn't play ball.
It really is as simple to set up as copying and pasting the link from here -> https://www.flightradar24.com/raspberry-pi and answering some questions
(after you've plugged it in of course!)
I'm sure you already know this Dave, but antenna position is key, I'm hitting about 62Nm now that I've moved my antenna out of the study window and stuck it to a roof tile, but it could do with a LOT more elevation!
I had a couple donated and they didn't play ball.
It really is as simple to set up as copying and pasting the link from here -> https://www.flightradar24.com/raspberry-pi and answering some questions
(after you've plugged it in of course!)
I'm sure you already know this Dave, but antenna position is key, I'm hitting about 62Nm now that I've moved my antenna out of the study window and stuck it to a roof tile, but it could do with a LOT more elevation!
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