{"id":7233,"date":"2016-09-29T12:34:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T16:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/?p=7233"},"modified":"2016-09-29T12:35:06","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T16:35:06","slug":"raspberry-pi-projects-2-and-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/2016\/09\/raspberry-pi-projects-2-and-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi projects #2 and 3"},"content":{"rendered":"

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raspberry pi<\/figcaption><\/figure>We have completed the R&D portions of projects 2 and 3 with the Raspberry Pi and am amazed at how flexible these things are.<\/p>\n

#2 was as a display controller for a kiosk. This is were the Pi would start up from power on, come up, do all network stuff it needed, fire up a web browser full screen and go to a site you wanted to display. For astronomy purposes, mostly useful at outreach events. It takes only 2 watts of power so this could be run in the field standalone, from batteries. The display would take much more power.<\/p>\n

#3 was the surveillance camera system, destined to be inside an observatory, outside an observatory and maybe even a wide angle northern aurora camera, or a wide angle weather camera. I used a regular $30 webcam and got very good results of: live streaming on demand (I had it set up in my office while off at a press conference, watching it on my smartphone browser), detecting motion and saving video of that motion plus before and after segments as well; regular interval single frame image.<\/p>\n

Awesome. And I think I just saw a reference that you could have more than one webcam on this system as well, saving the approx $50 of another Pi.<\/p>\n

The “motion” package also has ftp options for those interested.<\/p>\n

Currently a Pi2B sells for $55 in Kingston at Qkits. Accessories not provided.. you will need a 5VDC power supply (about $15-20), a case (about $15-20), an 8GB microsd card (about $15-20). best to try and find a kit<\/p>\n

A Pi B (not the same as above) kit with power supply, 4GB SD card and case sells for $70<\/p>\n

Next Project: The Tinyastro that Malcolm demo’d a few months back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have completed the R&D portions of projects 2 and 3 with the Raspberry Pi and am amazed at how flexible these things are. #2 was as a display controller for a kiosk. This is were the Pi would start up from power on, come up, do all network stuff it needed, fire up a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7233"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7235,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7233\/revisions\/7235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starlightcascade.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}