Category Archives: raspberry pi

Easy Animation Script Using FSWebcam and Mencoder

Posted on June 17, 2013 by drewibbo

My son loves making animations and recently did an after school club which he loved being involved in. I wanted to make it easy for him to come home and do the same thing in the living room using his … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi Cress Growing Time Lapse

Posted on May 18, 2013 by drewibbo

I need to begin this post by saying that one good thing has come from McDonald’s… (at last). Me and my son, Camden were having a treat one evening and in his Happy Meal was, what I thought to be, … Continue reading →

Posted in CressPi, Projects, raspberry pi, Timelapse | 1 Comment

PiQuiz – An easy quiz for kids with LEDs.

Posted on April 24, 2013 by drewibbo

This tutorial will show you how to design a quiz for two players. You are asked seven questions and the first to answer seven correctly wins! The game makes use of LEDs so you know how many questions you have … Continue reading →

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Push Button > Take Picture…

Posted on April 23, 2013 by drewibbo

This tutorial is a request from a visitor to this site. He asked how to take a photo when a button is pressed. Difficulty = Beginner Required: Raspberry Pi Webcam Push button/breadboard/wires First thing is to ensure we have the … Continue reading →

Posted in bash, Button, GPIO, raspberry pi, Scripting, Tutorial, Webcam | 15 Comments

Flash an LED

Posted on April 17, 2013 by drewibbo

Here is a quick tutorial for beginners to GPIO.  Making an LED flash on and off might seem quite boring, but if you don’t know the basics then how will you be able to progress with other projects! This tutorial … Continue reading →

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Kidpi…!

Posted on April 13, 2013 by drewibbo

My seven year old son, Camden, who is a hardened Windows user has made life very difficult for me to introduce him to the Pi. He was really interested in making an LED flick on and off for the best … Continue reading →

Posted in bash, Child Friendly, GPIO, kidPi, raspberry pi, Scripting, Tutorial | Tagged , , , , | 4 Comments

Time lapse Webcam With The Raspberry Pi, fswebcam and mencoder

Posted on April 12, 2013 by drewibbo

A nice easy tutorial now. This one will have you making your own time lapse movies in minutes using a button to start the camera. I will also show you how to encode them into a short movie like the … Continue reading →

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One Wire Temperature Sensor With Cron & FTP

Posted on April 11, 2013 by drewibbo

This tutorial is an extension to Matthew Kirks tutorial on setting up and logging the data captured from a one-wire digital temperature sensor. Click here for a working demonstration direct from my Pi. Click here to download the code. The … Continue reading →

Posted in GPIO, raspberry pi, Tutorial | Tagged , , , , | 26 Comments