Battery PiZero W, PiJuice Zero and a Camera
Goal Make a really simple timelapse camera. Runs on a Pi and uploads photos when WiFi available Always taking photos and saving. […]
Category: Computing
Raspberry Pi Setup (Linux)
Setup SD Card on another linux machine to install headless I use Desktop Raspberry Pi OS distro. This is tested on a […]
SSH Port Forwarding
There’s heaps on this on the internet and a good book. Here is my usage, which is useful for IoT connections. Remote […]
Hacking an IotaWatt ESP8266
I need to flash the IotaWatt firmware (and write new files to the SD card) for two reasons: firstly I have a […]
Grafana and InfluxDB on a Pi
Instructions as of late 2019! I used a Pi Zero W. This works but was pretty slow and awful for a my […]
Access Grafana without a login screen
Unlike Grafana 5, we can’t use the ‘old’ method of a proxy login to get a cookie for semi-permanent login. This post […]
Pi Zero W Timelapse Camera
This scratch pad records my experience with a Pi Zero W unit, capturing outside timelapses. Controlling the PiCamera Reference to python module […]
ESP32 Development Environment – Bleeding Edge ESP-IDF v4.1 with cmake
There’s a few options to program the esp32: Arduino IDE : good. Heaps of support and tutorials. Some key limitations for ESP32, […]
WebApp Development for a Esp32 Arduino Sketch
AJAX or websockets will allow nicer development. I’m trying BootStrap to get a tidy interface. Bootply.com and layitout.com enable you to easily […]
ESP32 Tricks and Tips
Time Keeping The ESP32 docs say you can set the RTC to keep time in deep sleep (“RTC clock is used to […]