Category Archives: Software

Playing Videos On the Raspberry Pi Command Line

If you need to play video files and you don’t want to install a full media solution such as XBMC then you can play them directly from the command line using Omxplayer. This is a media player created by Edgar … Continue reading

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How To Setup A Web Server On Your Raspberry Pi

This page aims to summarise the steps required to install a webserver with PHP support onto your Raspberry Pi. This will allow the Pi to server HTML and PHP pages to users on the same network. This is a useful … Continue reading

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Raspberry Pi Command Line Audio

Things have moved on a bit with the Raspbian image since I wrote my Raspberry Pi Speakers & Analog Sound Test post. So I decided to take another look as I wanted to start adding some audio to my experiments. … Continue reading

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Adding A Watermark Or Logo To A Timelapse Video Using Avconv

The purpose of this post is to demonstrate how to add a logo to your time-lapse videos. The logo can be any graphic you can create and could easily be a watermark or text. The objective was to add my … Continue reading

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Raspberry Pi CPU Usage Monitoring With A BerryClip

While wandering the internet I found an article Raspberry Pi: CPU usage monitoring using GPIO by chteuchteu. This explained how to display the current CPU usage on 7 LEDs attached to the GPIO header. I thought this would be a … Continue reading

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Berryclip 6 LED Board Testing in C

This post is for the lucky owners of the BerryClip 6 LED add on board and is the first of a series of posts to get you started with an alternative to Python. This article covers using C, but there … Continue reading

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Top 8 Free Windows Tools for Raspberry Pi Development

This is a list of the free tools and utilities I use on a regular basis when messing around with Raspberry Pi development. They are quite specific to the type of projects I am working on but I thought people … Continue reading

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Matrix Pi – Running CMatrix on the Raspberry Pi

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Ignoring the fact that they made the mistake of turning a two film story into three films, The Matrix is cool. Regardless of what my wife says. So I decided it was vital that I get the Matrix text “rain” … Continue reading

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BerryClip Graphical Test Program

This is my first go with pygame on the raspberrypi. I thought I’d share with you this little project, it is for testing that your 6 LED BerryClip addon board is working properly. i.e. check I’ve not soldered anything in … Continue reading

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Sending SMS Text Messages Using Python

For one of my Pi projects I wanted the ability to send SMS text messages from a Python script. These messages would be sent to my mobile phone and alert me about specific events recorded by my Pi. There was … Continue reading

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