LED wall control with Raspberry Pi, part 2

LED wall control with Raspberry Pi, part 2

  Wednesday, October 25, 2017    DJ Maraz

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Problems, problems and more problems... This project is obviously turning into a fight, so I dug up some Spock quotes to aid me. Some interesting findings and mildly foul language are to be expected.

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LED wall control with Raspberry Pi, part 1

LED wall control with Raspberry Pi, part 1

  Saturday, October 14, 2017    DJ Maraz

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My IR camera project has been on hold for a while, because I've come up with other more interesting ideas, such as a LED wall. Initially I was inspired by the Aurora LED wall project, but I've realized that with the power of a Raspberry Pi and some Linux audio magic (PulseAudio and GStreamer) I could do much more.

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

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

  Thursday, August 24, 2017    DJ Maraz

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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

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

  Wednesday, August 16, 2017    DJ Maraz

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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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