I have been experimenting with my Raspberry Pi TFT display these few days with the intention to use it as a misc status display, heavily influenced by Mark‘s work. I collect most of my house’s telemetrics to an emoncms installation running on…
New RFM2Pi board in the works
Glyn Hudson and I have been working on a new RFM2Pi board revision, nothing revolutionary, just a small upgrade. The most important features of the board are: Atmega328 based, has more memory and hardware serial support Runs on the internal…
Receiving IR with Funky v2
I ran a quick test today to see how Ken Shirriff’s IR library behaves on the Funky v2. One of the things I noticed in my current design is that I don’t have a pin with timer output routed to…
1.8″ TFT LCD display on Raspberry Pi
[edit] This project is now available for sale in the store I figured my cheap 1.8″ TFT display is useless on an Arduino as it pretty much eats the available memory (20K for simple sketches), so I decided to try it…
Raspberry Pi as IP webcam
I noticed this Instructable the other day and had to try it since I had an old USB web cam laying around. I found that the instructions contained some inaccuracies, here are my steps: sudo apt-get install motion sudo nano /etc/motion/motion.conf Locate…
RFM2Pi firmware updates
With quite a few RFM2Pi boards out there, some issues started to pop up. When using the board to send time packets to emonGLCD, the board would interpret random serial gibberish as valid command and would switch its nodeID to…
RFM12B to Raspberry Pi board
I have decided to discontinue the TinySensor project and focus on Funky Sensor as they overlap a lot as functionality. These of you following my posts, know that I have a working prototype for a dedicated board for RFM12 to Pi connectivity,…
Remote keyboard and mouse for Raspberry Pi
This is a little heads-up for those of you (includes me) that don’t want to dedicate a mouse and keyboard to their Pi and would rather use their laptop’s mouse and keyboard. This is a bit different from running remote…
Display for my Raspberry Pi
[Edit] I have now undertaken another approach, worth checking it out here I recently purchased a 4.3″ TFT LCD screen, originally intended for attaching car backup cameras with the intention to use it as a status screen for my Raspberry…
Interfacing ‘Funky’ to Raspberry Pi
I am finding myself using Funkys for all of my recent projects, so I am thinking of discontinuing the TinySensor. I think the better approach would be to have various ‘shields’ for the Funky rather having hardware on board that…
RaspberryPi+TinySensor as EmonBase
I now have working setup with a TinySensor + Rasberry Pi acting as an emonbase. I previously used PHP for this task, but the PHP serial class seems to have some issues on the transmission part plus it was a…
Dropbox shell script for RaspberryPi
Let me share a useful find: Dropbox Uploader is a BASH script which can be used to upload and download files from Dropbox, an online file sharing, synchronization and backup service. Since I am constantly switching SD card images, this is…
TinySensor 1.4 PCB is ready
I now have the TinySensor v1.4 in my hands, there are some small improvements over the version I last published, most notably that I added a 3.3V FTDI connector. You can’t use it to program the Attiny (..yet, I am…
Capture, decode and log to emoncms RFM12B packets on Raspberry Pi
With the RF12Demo sketch running on a TinySensor permanently hooked to my Raspberry Pi, my next step was to be able to capture the RFM12B packets that are being sent by various remote sensors in my home. Using the minicom…
Manic Miner on my Pi
I have followed the instructions posted here and am now running Fuse Spectrum emulator on my Debian Pi , except for sound, all is perfect.. It reminds me of my good old ZX Spectrum back 27 years ago… For added…