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Cables, oscilloscopes, fibres popping out of nowhere, Allen keys scattered all over the place… Welcome to my lab š
Tag: geek
There you go…
A ThinkPad. You can clearly see that, no? (Haha, I think I’ve been playing with the camera filters for too long.. Better stop now… š
Watch out for the Uruk-Ai!
Gertboard is here! | Raspberry Pi
Gertboard is here! | Raspberry Pi.
Already on my wishlist! Added to the fact that it comes in a kit (got to go fetch the old soldering iron and brush up my fairly limited soldering skills!), it is a very interesting piece of hardware to extend the Pi’s functionality and play even more with it.
There are already a number of Python libraries meant to control the Pi’s GPIO pins, enabling it to interact with the outside world (eg, it could be interesting in a home automation project!…).
Sometimes I’d like to have more time for this kind of activities, sadly it is something that can only be done while on vacations, which are getting shorter every year!… š
facebook report – Wolfram|Alpha
facebook report – Wolfram|Alpha.
Yet another very interesting feature of Wolfram|Alpha! I liked the “Friend Network” chart in particular – it only confirmed the idea I had, that I have some very well defined friend clusters (some even completely watertight!), with some curious exceptions (such as my brother being right in the middle of my rowing club buddies, while the rest of the family is clustered elsewhere). And then there are the outliers, some are really well apart from the big clusters!
If you want to do this as well, you have to link your Facebook account to the Wolfram|Alpha app (but I reckon this is OK, Wolfram is not evil! :)) and then run the “facebook report” query on the main Wolfram|Alpha input box. Very interesting, indeed!
Raspberry Pi as a low-cost IP camera
Well, it seems there is no end for the amount of things one can do with the Raspberry Pi… this time my intention was to turn it into an inexpensive IP camera with a cheap webcam I have lying around.
After fiddling around with the stream server components of ffmpeg (with whom I had no luck whatsoever), and giving ZoneMinder a try (a good software for a full CCTV set-up, but a bit overkill for what I intended – plus, I had no luck either with this one), I settled for a simpler configuration using motion and some ffmpeg components.
I updated the installation I had on the SD card with the latest Raspbian image (they recently announced in their blog overclock support for the Pi using this latest image, plus the video4linux compiled binaries are already present, saving me the hassle of compiling them for ARM). After that, it was pretty easy to set up everything, since motion is present in the standard Debian repository.
Right now, I have a cheap USB camera from Lidl connected to the Pi, and outputting 352×288 pixel video at 1-2 fps. The quality isn’t great (probably due to the camera itself), but it does work acceptably! And I was amazed on how easy it actually was to set everything up – the motion package is quite easy to configure, and it allows for very interesting functionality (e.g., motion detection on the image feed, which can trigger various actions).
Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know – Old School Computer Remix – YouTube
Absolutely fantastic! I thought I had seen it all after the Star Wars theme with a floppy drive motor, but no! š
GNOME 3.6 Released! | GNOME
Can’t wait for Fedora 18, then. š
Some of the features are really, really welcome. And it is interesting to see that they reconsidered some of the most radical minimalist decisions, such as the absence of a power off option on the user menu (of course, you can restore the functionality through an extension, but it was silly to have removed it in the first place!…).
Dive into the Great Barrier Reef with the first underwater panoramas in Google Maps | Official Google Blog
Excellent stuff, Google! Keep up the good work.
Never thought this day would come…
I managed to read everything on my Google Reader feed!! Now what?
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