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

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Showing posts with label video. Show all posts

Trapped


I felt compelled to write about music for a change, since it's mentioned in the blog header and all, so here's some criticism to begin with.

As a DJ I had the pleasure of closely following the development of rap music ever since the 80's, and IMO the "golden age" of the 90's was truly that. From 2000 onwards I've felt rap becoming too mainstream, too dumb and lacking meaningful messages.

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


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.

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


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.