As you might have seen from my previous post, I have bought the new Raspberry Pi 2 and even created a tray case for it out of icypoles the first day I got it. The previous plan as soon as I turn on the Pi 2 was to try out... View Article
The Raspberry Pi tends to bring out the creative side within us and that includes me. This time it’s nothing to do with software development or anything remotely to do with technology. Instead it reminded me of what I used to do when I was in school many years ago.... View Article
Updated with more suggestions! Christmas is literally around the corner! So if you haven’t got any idea of what buy your software developer/programmer friends then perhaps this post is going to help you a lot. Buying gifts isn’t always easy as we don’t always know what the other person likes,... View Article
Continuing on from part 2, here is the full script for the image resizer. Let’s call the script crunch2.py for now, so create a file called crunch2.py under /home/pi/image_cruncher. You can of course use any other directory but we will refer to this one in this article. We will go through the... View Article
Welcome to Part 2 of the Raspberry Pi Image Cruncher. We will talk about preparing the Raspberry Pi for our image cruncher. We know that we will use Python with ImageMagick for resizing and Own Cloud for the image sharing medium. To do that we have to make sure our... View Article
A Raspberry Pi image cruncher, this is something that I have been wanting to write about for quite some time. The plan is to get this article out weeks ago however I had to hold back and make sure that the script and processing actually works all the time. Most... View Article
Continuing from part 1 where we setup permanent mount for external hard drive, we will not setup the simplest mode of network file sharing, Samba. I decided to use Samba as I mostly do casual multimedia file sharing within my home network across multiple computers running different OS. If I... View Article
In my previous article I described how to get OwnCloud up and running on the Raspberry Pi. I have trialled this for about a month now and it’s been working very well, syncing files between 2 other machines and mobile devices. So far I’ve been using the internal SDCard for... View Article
There are many great file sharing and syncing service available such as Dropbox or Box.net and they all work great for accessing my files remotely, however I want something that I can use internally at home, just so I can access files such as music and documents across my machines.... View Article
I have been idle from writing for a while (as you might have noticed) this is due to my work projects, ventures and travels. As a result of that, my Raspberry Pi has been left un-updated for a while. Now that I have some more time to play with it,... View Article