Raspberry Pi - Who's gonna have a dabble?
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MarkRSi said:
Anyone used this for industrial applications?
Going to get a couple of these in to play with at work. Will be interesting to see how it compares with equivalent embedded boards costing north of $200
The pi foundation work with industry and its partly why all the old models are still available. I watched a video this week and Eben mentioned it - think it was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37_7arZZlUIGoing to get a couple of these in to play with at work. Will be interesting to see how it compares with equivalent embedded boards costing north of $200
Been itching to post this for a while but here's my little Pi project - it's a camera in a birdbox that streams to the internet so my parents can watch the nest in their garden when they're not in.
Found wiring up the camera into the box and then into the case a right faff, but I see you can now get an HDMI adaptor for the camera that will help with that! Also can't get it to start streaming on boot, but that's not a massive issue as it's been streaming for a few months now.
Here's the link -
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/s-and-d-birdbox
(noisy adverts, sorry, but can't expect too much for free!)
It's not focussed quite right, next year we'll try and aim the camera at the entrance hole a bit too.
Found wiring up the camera into the box and then into the case a right faff, but I see you can now get an HDMI adaptor for the camera that will help with that! Also can't get it to start streaming on boot, but that's not a massive issue as it's been streaming for a few months now.
Here's the link -
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/s-and-d-birdbox
(noisy adverts, sorry, but can't expect too much for free!)
It's not focussed quite right, next year we'll try and aim the camera at the entrance hole a bit too.
Russ35 said:
What camera are you using in the bird box. If your using the Pi camera, there was a new v2 one released in the last couple of weeks, using a Sony 8meg camera.
It's the non-IR version of the standard camera (from about 6 months ago), the non-IR bit means that it doesn't have the infra-red filter on it so can see IR light, there's an IR LED in there so you can see what they're up to at night or when one is blocking the hole.It looks much better quality when connected straight to a screen - from what I understand UStream lowers the resolution unless you upgrade your account and the instructions I found were for streaming to Ustream only, for next year I'll take a look at how I can live stream to Youtube, I think they've added that in but haven't looked into it at all.
Is anywhere still selling Pi Zeros? Probably going to be abroad for a few months again soon and thinking of taking a Pi as a media streamer having got quite used to having OSMC on one at home. Zero should be able to do the job for a fiver but nowhere seems to have any stock so I might have to get another Pi2 instead. (so may be interested if you're getting rid of one Tonsko)
RizzoTheRat said:
Is anywhere still selling Pi Zeros? Probably going to be abroad for a few months again soon and thinking of taking a Pi as a media streamer having got quite used to having OSMC on one at home. Zero should be able to do the job for a fiver but nowhere seems to have any stock so I might have to get another Pi2 instead. (so may be interested if you're getting rid of one Tonsko)
The Zero went back into production at the factory in Wales a week or so ago, anticipate places like Pimoroni should have them back in stock in the next couple of weeks.That being said, whilst the Zero is a fantastic little bit of kit, if you're thinking of an application where the Pi is generally hooked up to HDMI, USB and the network, you might be better off with a full-sized version and a decent case.
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