Category: RaspberryPi

Raspberry Pi Night

downloadA couple of nights ago, Daniel Stenberg visited the Pelagicore offices in Gothenburg for the Raspberry Pi Night. We had 28 signed up guests and hacked, talked and played for a night.

I was personally surprised about the turn-up – and the number of projects showing up. A couple of guys even came with a lab power supply and their own embedded computer running a SNES emulator. Cool stuff! Some figures around this. We filled the event (28 tickets) in 4-5 days. We got 40+ people on the foss-gbg mailing list in two weeks.

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I’d like to thank everyone who showed up. Great to see a large crowd! I’d also like to thank Daniel for coming, Pelagicore for hosting and supplying food, a location and competition prizes, and to all my colleagues who helped me in the preparations. As this really took of, I’m already planning for our next event. If you want to brain storm about topics, feel free to drop me a mail (e8johan, gmail). I’m already thinking 3D printing, quad copters, node.js in embedded, Wayland, etc.

Raspberry Pi Night in Gothenburg

The event described below is in Sweden, in Swedish, so simply skip ahead if the rest sounds like gibberish.

Embedded Linux, Automotive, Real-time? Daniel Stenberg, känd från curl, ssh2 and c-ares kommer till stan!

Vi samlas, snackar och hackar inbyggd Linux några timmar. Dra med dig din raspberry pi, beagleboard, pandaboard, androidtelefon eller liknande och vi bygger och installerar egen-byggda uboots, Linux-kernels och rootfilsystem på dem! Har du inte ett eget inbyggt “device” att jobba med kan du säkert låna ett roligt kort när du kommer eller hjälpa någon annan. Dela med dig av ditt projekt och få hjälp, eller häng på någons annans projekt och hjälp till!

Från klockan 16 till klockan 20, i Pelagicores lokaler på Ekelundsgatan 4.

Vi kommer också att krydda kvällen med ett föredrag av Daniel Stenberg med arbetstiteln “real time challenges with Linux” samt en tävling på temat “inbyggd open source”.

Allt händer under Raspberry Pi Night hos Pelagicore, anmälan på https://www.eventbrite.com/event/9160558477 . Begränsat antal platser!

The Cuecumber Cam

This spring, I invested in a greenhouse. As soon as the green stuff was growing, the little nerd in me saw some room for improvement. I got a Raspberry Pi model A, a solar charger case from cottonpicker’s and a cheap webcam. As it turns out, the batteries from the solar case only provide an around 4.8V, so the webcam sort of killed the system over night, and then the charging plus booting never actually got the system reliably running during each day. The results of 3 weeks in the field is the following little timelapse showing cuecumbers…

timelapseSo, next attempt will be to set this up with a Raspberry Pi camera module. Lets see if that gives a more stable system…