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Music producer, (ex-)DJ, electronics tinkerer, Linux enthusiast and coder.

Infrared motion sensor camera with Raspberry Pi Zero W, part 2

  Thursday, August 24, 2017    

I decided to start with something simple like watching live video from the Pi camera on the local network. Raspbian comes with the raspivid utility, often used to simply record or pass camera picture to the HDMI output, but it's suitable for much more than that, especially with VLC, a multipurpose video toolkit...

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Infrared motion sensor camera with Raspberry Pi Zero W, part 1

  Wednesday, August 16, 2017    

I've been planning to build a prototype battery-operated motion sensor camera using the latest addition to the Raspberry Pi family tree, the Zero W, which is quite a remarkable device for something smaller than my thumb. Even the wireless antenna seems quite revolutionary. With WiFi and Bluetooth built in, this tiny computer will be more than perfect for many IoT projects...

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Context menu additions for sharing files in S3 buckets

  Tuesday, August 08, 2017    

Some time ago I wrote about mounting Amazon S3 buckets into your home directory, and I wanted to get automatic public URLs for sharing some of the files I stuff in my cloud buckets. I got it working quite effortlessly by writing a small script and adding a context menu item to my file manager...

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Using systemd to mount S3 buckets into your home directory

  Wednesday, August 02, 2017    

If you do web development or use cloud storage for backups, you may have heard of Amazon S3 which offers dirt-cheap storage for both private and public use. Data in S3 is split into "buckets", which can be configured individually and may contain folder structures.   Then there's S3FS (S3 File System) that allows accessing S3 just as easily as local files. The few tutorials I found used /etc/fstab...

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Oh, so now I'm a blogger

  Wednesday, August 02, 2017    

Since I pretty much write for a living these days, I never thought I'd find enough energy and time to start blogging, especially after I ended my Twitter life as too time-consuming, but here we are. I noticed that I've written a huge collection of notes that, with some refining, might be useful to others as well, and writing helps me remember new stuff that I keep learning. I guess those are valid...

  

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