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Coastal webcam with weather and tide data
Following on from my Raspberry Pi e-Ink display tide time project, I’ve made a web cam that will tweet photos overlaid with weather and tide information for any UK coastal place. It uses the official Raspberry Pi camera module. Like the InkypHAT … Continue reading
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Tagged coast, Python, RaspberryPi, seaside, tides, weather, webcam
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Weather forecast on a RaspberryPi printer – now with added Pi
Here’s how I get the weather printed on my RaspberryPi-powered GoFreeRange internet printer every morning at 6AM. Overview I made a GoFreeRange printer using a RaspberryPi instead of an Arduino. I signed up for IFTTT and got it to send … Continue reading
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Tagged GFR, printer, Raspberry Pi, RaspberryPi, weather
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Daily weather forecast on my little internet printer
Rain, of course I want the weather forecast waiting for me on my little Raspberry Pi-powered internet printer in the morning. I tried signing up for the Printer Weather forecast app but it never worked – maybe it’s not running … Continue reading
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Tagged GFR, internet printer, little printer, printer, Raspberry Pi, RaspberryPi, weather
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Pi shall tweet unto Arduino
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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Tagged Arduino, Fridge Gizmo, FridgeGizmo, LCD, Raspberry Pi, twitter, weather
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This is London
I managed to get my FridgeGizmo prototype to display the weather in London! Ok, it’s in Fahrenheit, but it’s London weather! Lahhhhhvery! Where I was going wrong was by not realising that of course the US zip codes were stored … Continue reading