Category Archives: Technology

Load Arduino / avr bootloader using Raspberry Pi

December 8, 2020

This is more notes for me than anything else, but maybe someone else interested in using a Pi to program their Arduino would be interested. It can be done: https://learn.adafruit.com/ftdi-friend/programming-the-arduino-bootloader https://learn.adafruit.com/program-an-avr-or-arduino-using-raspberry-pi-gpio-pins/programming https://oxygene.sk/2015/02/using-raspberry-pi-as-an-arduino-avr-programmer/ https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/raspberry-gpio/gpio-pinout https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing-pro-trinket/pinouts https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_ProTrinket_Bootloader sudo avrdude -p atmega328p -C … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi Digital Signage

December 18, 2019

There have been many different attempts at inexpensive digital signage over the years. My favorite, one that I use regularly where I work, is Raspberry Pi for digital signage. Put simply, I set up a Raspberry Pi to load a … Continue reading →

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Original iPod Shuffle – on Linux

March 14, 2019

That’s right, I’ve finally found a way to use my old 512mb Shuffle on Linux. Thanks to keyj for making a simple python script in 2006. How it works is you put whatever you want for mp3s onto the shuffle … Continue reading →

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Display RSS feed as alert using PHP

November 19, 2018

Our school district had a need where we wanted to have the no school notice show on all of our district pages when an alert is sent out. I wanted to automate the process so that there wouldn’t need to … Continue reading →

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Webcams on Raspberry Pi

June 22, 2017

Webcams on Raspberry Pi is like salsa and chips – they just belong together. But sometimes making that happen isn’t straight forward. I’ve done it two ways and figured I would share with anyone else wanting an easy way to … Continue reading →