Tag Archives: RaspberryPi

Screen recording & controlling Raspberry Pi on a Mac with no extra software

It’s been bugging me for a while about how to do screen recordings on a RaspberryPi – it may be possible to do it using ffmpeg, but today I found a pretty easy way of doing it from a Mac, … Continue reading

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Tweeting photos from PS2 EyeToy on Raspberry Pi

It took some fairly heavy footling and jiggery-pokery, but I finally managed to get my Raspberry Pi to run a Python script which takes a photo on a webcam and tweets the picture – meaning I could set up a … Continue reading

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Adding a station and summertime to PiRadio

“Summer’s here! It’s time for MAYONNAISE!” I think that was how Bill Bryson described a typical British women’s magazine strapline of the 50s or 60s. Summertime also means that my PiRadio is displaying frosty old GMT, so I need to … Continue reading

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Raspberry Pi cases – how do they stack up?

We’re a 3-Pi household now – our 2 very early 1st generation Pis are used as an internet radio and a wireless print server, and the last one is used for general testing, project making and also got pressed into … Continue reading

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First steps with Kano

A new cute-looking Raspberry Pi kit and OS? That’s what Kano claims to offer – a rather spiffy kit containing a Raspberry Pi, wireless keyboard & trackpad, OS on SD card, wifi adaptor, speaker, power supply and a nice case … Continue reading

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