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Using Raspberry Pi 3 to allow Pepper Robot to connect to WPA2 Enterprise Network…
This procedure allows you to create a router/AP using a Pi3 that connects to a WPA2 Enterprise network over it’s external wireless interface (wlan1) and allows clients to connect through it’s wired ethernet (eth0) and internal wireless ethernet (wlan0) to access the internet through the NAT interface. So here are the requirements: Pepper Robot has…
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Latest Raspbian (2017-07-05-raspbian-jessie) dd: /dev/rdiskX: Invalid argument on OSX and other potential issues with “apt-get” post install
So this morning I was trying to install the latest rasbian image onto an uSD card and was getting a strange error when I issued dd. I was using rdisk (BSD raw disk) device to speed up the image writing process (note: I don’t think you get this error if you just use /dev/diskX). The…
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Getting the most out of plymouth or how to make raspbian jessie boot with a full splash screen
Assuming you want the fancy splash screen (ie you want to hide the ugly boot messages), add “quiet splash logo.nologo plymouth.ignore-serial-consoles” to the end of the single line in /boot/cmdline.txt file. This enables the splash screen. Now you need to choose one (I like spinfinity), so issue the following command to switch from default (bland grey…
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Designing a six channel 24/7 streaming video player for digital signage
So here are the design goals: Provide atleast 6 channels of streaming video. Allow “hot” switching between streams using a remote control. Allow network to fail and be able to have the stream automatically recover. Allow the Pi to autostart on a particular stream when powered. Be flexible enough to potentially provide more than 6…
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Tiny ASCII animations in your browser’s address bar
Extremely cool ascii animations in your URL bar. Works in Firefox and Chrome. Doesn’t work in Safari. http://glench.com/hash/ Check out the Volumeter (listen) and the shooter game (pewpew). Use cursor keys and space bar in pewpew.