I run a code club at my local middle school, Ovingham. The school are building an aquaponics system, they have built the hardware but would like to automate the control of the system, this series of blog posts will take you through my attempts to automate this. Continue reading “Building an aquaponics controller: part 1”
Tag: Raspberry Pi
Time-lapse photography using the Raspberry Pi Camera
This is my first project using my Raspberry Pi camera, we had a need to monitor our new Guinea Pigs and while my girlfriend was away I thought I’d use the Raspberry Pi camera to do this. The project provides the following functionality:
- Take a photo every x seconds
- Collate photos into a timelapse video
- upload the video to you-tube
Additional functions I added whilst I developed the system were:
- Generate the video if the memory becomes full to enable further monitoring
- Add a light sensor so that pictures of the dark are not taken, this would also allow the processing to be done during downtime (if the memory card is large enough)
- Add a switch to enable the program to end cleanly Continue reading “Time-lapse photography using the Raspberry Pi Camera”
Remote Access To Your RPi
In my professional life I am often working away from home, one of the things I like to do is remotely access my Rapberry Pi, or even my Mac to work on personal projects. For a while I have just been accessing the resources using some dynamic DNS hosts but I keep forgetting the URLs they provide. This post provides details on how to configure your network and domain name to provide an easy to remember url for accessing resources in your network. Continue reading “Remote Access To Your RPi”