Creating the awesomeness
What is it? For a couple of years I have a dual screen setup haning in my (very full) enterance. It ran two screens with two separate Raspbarry PI’s.Over the years the PI’s got some upgrades, but I found it time to install the latest Raspberry PI 4, so I can use both screens with … Read more
What is it? For many years I had a Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) laying around somewhere, I wanted to use the original hardware case to make a RetroPie. So I did! Project costs in € or $ Object Price Raspberry Pi 4 Model B v1.2 – 4GB € 62 Micro-HDMI to HDMI cable- 1m € … Read more
What is it? Having some spare monitor’s laying around (from the dumpster), I did already make some nice projects with them. In the Dual photo webpage with Angular project I added some nice tvservice magic. I thought it was worth having its own place. This project is nothing more than a webpage (not even a page, … Read more
What is it? Having some spare monitor’s laying around (from the dumpster), I decided to make a dual wall screen project, but after that I still had some more. I wanted to have an extra monitor in my study, and a spare Raspberry PI 2 was just waiting to be part of it.
What is it? Having some spare monitor’s laying around (from the dumpster), I decided to make a dual wall screen project. The idea came from the magic mirror project, and was accompanied by a simple image webpage project. The hardware 2 x 19″ monitor with DVI connection 1 x Raspberry Pi 3 1 x Raspberry … Read more
What is it? For almost a year now, I’m running Pi-hole on a Raspberry Pi 1 (yup, the first version) to block all ads and malicious domains completely. Installing and running Pi-hole doesn’t need any explanation, setup a Raspberry Pi and run the command as mentioned on https://pi-hole.net With the SPI enabled, I was able to get … Read more
At the end of 2015 I’ve tried to install ASP.NET vNext (later renamed to core) on a Raspberry Pi, but recently .NET Core 2.0.0-beta version came out and some people already had a play with this on an ARM32 environment. Arranging myself a Raspberry Pi 3 and trying this out was next! The environment Prepare the Raspberry … Read more
I hit my head two times on this, getting serialdata via an Electron app, time to put the taken steps on paper. Demo project I found this demo project and used it aswell: https://github.com/johnny-five-io/electron-serialport I implemented some changes to push the data to a table. The project code can be found on my github pagehttps://github.com/timdows/webpages/tree/master/ElectronSerial … Read more
What is it? A follow up on my old project https://timdows.com/projects/timelapse-camera/, this project is going to capture the construction across my apartment. You can see this as rev3 of this project. In this project I’ve upgraded the Raspberry Pi 1 to a 3, eliminating the wireless issues that I had, and gaining more overall processor power. Starting … Read more
ASP.NET vNext on a Raspberry PI Try number 1: raspbian with mono Try number 2: Windows 10 IoT Core on a Raspberry PI 2 with ASP.NET 5, Kestrel and DNX All done and time for the first test console application Lets create a Kestrel MVC application with DNX Publish the MVC application to my Raspberry … Read more
What is it? Across my apartment a demolition is going on. I took this opportunity to start a timelapse project of the demolition. The rev1 was a simple setup with a bash script making a picture every 5 minutes. After a while I found it hard to get the camera positioned good (I had to … Read more
What is it? In the remote connection / VPN world, RSA tokens and other two-way authentication methods are used to increase security. At my work we have a box full of these tokens laying around. I had an old scanner laying around, and decided that it would be a good project to create someting that … Read more