Amazon Alexa + Raspberry PI + jasm.eu: Our first steps together

These were my requirements when I started this small project: I want to be able to have Alexa understand any kind of commands I may find appropriate for my projects. (I.e. beyond things like “Alexa turn on the lights” or “Alexa

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Photo Wall with Wood Frames

We saw in the past blogs how to display a nice Photo Wall using JavaFX and how cgi-bin scripts can randomly choose the photos to be displayed, with versions for Mac (any “regular” Linux probably, too) as well as for

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WallFX – Java Photo Wall for Raspberry PI

In the last 3 blogs (1, 2, 3) I explained how the first attempt to run a Photo Wall on a Raspberry Pi failed as there is no browser on Pi able to use the GPU and efficiently run the code

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cgi-bin scripts for the Photo Wall #2

After we discussed about how to scale the images for the Photo Wall on a desktop computer in the first part of this blog, we may imagine that keeping an additional computer running just to serve the photo wall it’s

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cgi-bin scripts for the Photo Wall #1

I mentioned in my previous blog that performance of HTML5 canvas on a Raspberry PI is not something to impress that much; not at all. And this was something I had in my mind from the beginning and my hope

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Photo Wall on Pi

There is a moment in which you start wondering: Why do I take thousands a pictures in every vacation with a “real” camera, and dozens of photos every week with the mobile phone ? Who will ever have the time

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Raspberry PI – Doing Automation

… Or how to eMail the PI to sprinkle your grass. Welcome to the 3rd and last part of this integrated project I started with the Raspberry Pi – Surveillance WebCam in the Cloud and continued with the Raspberry PI

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Raspberry Pi – Surveillance WebCam in the Cloud – Improvements

Ok, there are several months since “productively” using the Surveillance WebCam with Raspberry PI; There are some improvements / changes I did that I’d like to share with you. 1. One very important aspect is that I moved the PI

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Raspberry PI – Temperature and Humidity sensor

Welcome to a new post on what to “play” with the raspberry PI. This time the point is to query the pi how the weather and humidity was during the past days. Why do I need this for ? Well,

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Raspberry Pi – Surveillance WebCam in the Cloud – The Outcome

Last but not least, how does it looks like ? I’ll again start with the recognition links: The weatherproof webcam And below it’s the jasm.eu version of it: I used some black tape to cover the built in led of

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