Monthly Archives: September 2012

Fridge Gizmo recap

Posted on September 21, 2012 by blogmywiki

Here’s a quick recap on the main steps I took in making a self-contained gizmo which displays London weather, global random tweets and Twitter trends on an LCD display. No soldering was involved. It’s really rather hypnotic watching utterly random … Continue reading →

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Making FridgeGizmo run automatically

Posted on September 19, 2012 by blogmywiki

…or How to Get a Script to Run Automatically at the Auto-login on default Raspberry Pi Raspbian Linux. I want to get my FridgeGizmo that displays local weather and global tweets on an LCD display to start itself up automatically … Continue reading →

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Pi shall tweet unto Arduino

Posted on September 16, 2012 by blogmywiki

More work to do, but big breakthroughs with FridgeGizmo today. I got the RaspberryPi pulling London weather and random worldwide tweets and trends and displaying them on my LCD display via an Arduino Uno. I installed Apache 2, the Apache … Continue reading →

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Adding wifi to Raspberry Pi with Edimax EW-7811UN dongle

Posted on September 16, 2012 by blogmywiki

After a lot of huffing and puffing and making things over-complicated, I got my Raspberry Pi on the internet by wifi with the miniscule £8.27 EdimaxEW-7811UN WiFi dongle. Here’s how I set it up. NB: I’m using a Kindle power … Continue reading →

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Displaying Yahoo London weather in Celsius on Arduino LCD

Posted on September 12, 2012 by blogmywiki

I’ve cracked it! I have got my proto-fridge-gizmo to display the weather for London in centigrade. The key is to tweak the YQL query to read: select * from weather.forecast where location=”UKXX0085″ and u=”c” &format=json In PHP you’ll need to … Continue reading →

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