Failed: Photobooth

The project in this book was supposed to walk the reader through the steps to making a Photo Booth type App

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Linux Stopmotion on a Raspberry Pi

My daughter says she wants a stop motion camera for her birthday

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SimpleCV Face Detection

The project in this book goes through the steps to perform basic face detection in Simple CV.

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SimpleCV and WebCam

This project shows the reader how to import an image from a web camera using Simple CV through Python

coding, python, raspberry piMarty MartinAugust 21, 2015webcam, Python, SimpleCVComment

Simple CV

This project shows the reader the basics on how to display an image using Simple CV which is an open source Computer Vision package.

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FAILED: Simple Soundboard with Raspberry Pi

The purpose of this project was to teach the reader how to turn a Raspberry Pi into a simple soundboard but I failed.

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Reading a button with Python

This project shows the reader how to register a button push using Python script then print the data to terminal.

coding, electronics, python, raspberry piMarty MartinJuly 31, 2015Electroics, Python, raspberry pi, buttonComment

Blink an LED with Python

Yup another blink tutorial but this time with Python.

coding, electronics, raspberry piMarty MartinJuly 24, 2015LED, raspberry pi, Electroics, PythonComment

Controlling a Lamp with a Raspberry Pi

This project shows how shell scripts, cron and the PowerSwitch Tail II can be used to control a lamp.

coding, electronics, raspberry piMarty MartinJuly 17, 2015powerswitch, raspberry pi, shell script, cron, ElectroicsComment

Controlling an LED with Python Code

In this project, I controlled an LED using python instead of Linux command line

electronics, python, raspberry piMarty MartinJuly 10, 2015Python, coding, led, raspberry piComment

Setting the Raspberry Pi to read input from a button

I setup the Raspberry Pi to recognize when a button was pushed from a breadboarded circuit.

electronics, raspberry piMarty MartinJuly 3, 2015breadboard, buttonComment

Using Linux on Raspberry Pi to control an LED

I used Linux command line to configure and control the General Purpose Input and Output (GPIO) pins to turn an LED on and off.

electronics, raspberry piMarty MartinJune 26, 2015LED, linux, raspberry pi, GPIO, ElectroicsComment

Making the Arduino Talk to the Raspberry Pi

This week I got the Arduino to talk to the Raspberry Pi

arduino, python, raspberry piMarty MartinJune 19, 2015arduino, Raspberry Pi, pythonComment

Lego Rover with LittleBits

I basically adapted the Mars Rover project to work with the 31030 Lego Creator Kit.

electronics, robotics, LegoMarty MartinJune 15, 2015lego, littlebits, roverComment

Installing Arduino in Raspian

This weeks I installed the Arduino IDE on Raspian

arduino, raspberry piMarty MartinJune 12, 2015arduino, raspberry piComment

Klingon Invaders

I made a Space Invaders type game but with a Star Trek theme

codingMarty MartinJune 5, 2015scratch, star trek, codingComment

Pygame Surface

This project uses python to remove the background of a png image using the alpha channel.

coding, python, raspberry piMarty MartinMay 29, 2015coding, python, pngComment

Hello Pygame

This project just draws a red circle against a white background.

coding, raspberry piMarty MartinMay 22, 2015pygame, codingComment

Logging Data to a text file in Python

This project used python to open a text file and log data to it.

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Import Time with Python

This project imports and uses the time library in python

coding, pythonMarty MartinMay 8, 2015Objects, Modules, PythonComment

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