Robert Rath Today I discovered my Pi had gone off-line! No WEB, no SSH. I am not sure what happened but a reboot brought it back to life again. So while it had my attention I decided a few tweaks were in order. Tweak 1. More RAM During general operations I had previously noticed MySQL had grabbed … Read more
Added tightvnc for headless GUI. http://www.penguintutor.com/linux/tightvnc … Robert
It would be a shame to lose everything I have put into the Raspberry Pi blog so it’s time to put in a backup regime. Strategy The Raspberry Pi blog is located both both ‘/var/www/raspberrypi/’ and in the serendipity-db catalog of the local MySQL database. We will need to backup up both to completely cover … Read more
Putting the Raspberry Pi into an appliance means that it will not have access to an Ethernet connection and will require USB WiFi. Which USB Wifi Device? Adding USB WiFi to a Linux device is generally quite easy however there are limitations which apply to non PC (non x86) applications such as the ARM11 based … Read more
What do you get if you cross a Raspberry Pi with a Breville 820ES Espresso machine? A Raspberry Latte! There has been a long standing symbiotic relationship between engineers and coffee!! So it only seems natural that a candidate project for my espresso machine is a Raspberry Pi brain transplant. Of course I’ll keep the … Read more
Welcome to my Raspberry Pi! Last week I ordered a new toy, one little Raspberry Pi and this blog will be dedicated to all the things I do with it. As can be expected the first thing I did was to put a standard image on an SD card and bring it to life. It … Read more
I had a Sea & Sea YS-50TTL strobe which was once use with the Motormarine II Camera. This strobe implemented TTL control through the camera metering in order to limit strobe power for correct exposure. I have since replaced the original Motormarine cable with a Nikonos style connector using just the GND and X-SYNC pins … Read more
Sometimes it is the simplest of things that really make my day. And what is really cool is where something simple is solved in a really complex way and made to appear simple! Almost like magic in fact!! The Problem I have a serial device next to me connected to the comm port of my … Read more
Sometimes it is the simplest of things that really make my day. And what is really cool is where something simple is solved in a really complex way and made to appear simple! Almost like magic in fact!! The Problem I have a serial device next to me connected to the comm port of my … Read more
This script facilitates a 3-way synchronisation between two Windows shares and a hosted local directory. It requires no special software on the Windows machines, simply the sharing of respective directories. All the work of connecting to target machines and sychronising is done by the host using samba and unison. It is assumed that samba, unison … Read more