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by parkview
Tue Feb 03, 2015 6:49 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi GIS Tablet: GIS-Pi
Replies: 44
Views: 57695

Re: Raspberry Pi GIS Tablet: GIS-Pi

Nice one there BeJay. I like the way your displaying the info along the top. Yes, mine too will run natively, but at the moment, I do Dev. work remotely via VNC, hence xwindows. Are you drawing the graph in pygame, or via something else?
by parkview
Mon Feb 02, 2015 9:00 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: RaspberryPi 2
Replies: 3
Views: 4369

Re: RaspberryPi 2

Ah, you beat me to it. Yes, it has some nice specks. Love the RAM. I wonder what the power requirements will be though. This seems to answer most of the critics pints, ie: RAM and CPU. Now if only it had some A/D on board.
by parkview
Sun Feb 01, 2015 9:40 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi GIS Tablet: GIS-Pi
Replies: 44
Views: 57695

Re: Raspberry Pi GIS Tablet: GIS-Pi

It's been a productive programming session. Now that I had the code functionised, I could get on with some fun things. Previously GIS-Pi would just record xx number (set via a for loop), of fixes. That's fine for testing, but not so handy out in the field. I have had a win with implementing some mou...
by parkview
Sat Jan 31, 2015 5:36 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi GIS Tablet: GIS-Pi
Replies: 44
Views: 57695

Re: Raspberry Pi GIS Tablet: GIS-Pi

It's been a week of staring at spaghetti Python code. Over the week, I have moved the linear code into functions and fixed a number of troublesome bugs along the way. Isn't that's what coding is all about I still have to provide a geo-referenced background image, but then I can (still via code), til...
by parkview
Sat Jan 31, 2015 3:38 pm
Forum: Raspberry Pi
Topic: Raspi TFT
Replies: 18
Views: 52677

Re: Raspi TFT

With a bit more Googling, I found this Wiki: m which leads onto this source for a driver: m I don't think this is a beginners kind of LCD screen. You might be better of with something like the HDMIPi screen, or just wait for the official RPi touch screen to be released, but we have been waiting for ...
by parkview
Sat Jan 31, 2015 3:27 pm
Forum: Raspberry Pi
Topic: Raspi TFT
Replies: 18
Views: 52677

Re: Raspi TFT

Ah, that is clearer. You will need to load a driver for the touch screen and the LCD screen. I don't see any links to any software. The datasheet mentions this company: www.iteadstudio.com You might want to poke around there to see if you can find some links to some kernel drivers. Otherwise, yes, s...
by parkview
Fri Jan 30, 2015 10:17 pm
Forum: Raspberry Pi
Topic: Raspi TFT
Replies: 18
Views: 52677

Re: Raspi TFT

Hi Dylan, I need more info on which product you purchased. You linked to a page with different products on it. Can you post a link to the actual product, as I think I am not looking at the correct one. Are you getting any errors using the product? If so, you will need to post the errors, you can tak...
by parkview
Fri Jan 30, 2015 6:59 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Weather Station
Replies: 12
Views: 10309

Re: Weather Station

Another RPi out at the edge? Serial over Wireless?
by parkview
Wed Jan 28, 2015 9:20 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Weather Station
Replies: 12
Views: 10309

Re: Weather Station

how long does it take to read the DHT22?

That's one disappointing thing about the DS18B20 - the second so it takes to read it at it's highest resolution.
by parkview
Mon Jan 26, 2015 1:28 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Weather Station
Replies: 12
Views: 10309

Re: Weather Station

Ah, I thought you where asking about whether to use i2c vs. RS232 to connect the Arduino to the RPi. Yes, I would stick with i2c to bring the PICXE info back tot he RPi. However, why not bring the DS18B20 data directly back to the RPi? The 1-wire protocol should be able to handle 100m+ (1200' spring...
by parkview
Mon Jan 26, 2015 10:12 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: Weather Station
Replies: 12
Views: 10309

Re: Weather Station

I am a BIG fan of the DS18B20 temperature sensors (cheap at under $3each from HK), easy to use and wire up, can be read from a PICAXE, Arduino or RPi. I don't track humidity, but I do use the m (which I see has now been superseded). i2c based, so very easy to use. I don't track wind speed or directi...
by parkview
Mon Jan 26, 2015 9:54 am
Forum: Projects
Topic: Speed Camera Check
Replies: 1
Views: 2881

Speed Camera Check

Hi, I drive from Busselton to Bunbury and back every day. It's not very often a Speed camera is present along the route, but I thought it would be nifty to be notified if there was one present on my drive. If there is one present during the week, the script will email me a copy of the PDF file. Yes,...
by parkview
Sun Jan 25, 2015 6:34 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi GIS Tablet: GIS-Pi
Replies: 44
Views: 57695

Re: Raspberry Pi GIS Tablet: GIS-Pi

Yes, pygame is awesome. Well Python is so powerful and elegant at the same time. The other day I wrote some crappy code calling a shell program to do read/write to a Shapefile. Later I went out side to do something I realised I had never tried searching for a suitable Python module, and sure enough ...
by parkview
Sat Jan 24, 2015 7:02 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi GIS Tablet: GIS-Pi
Replies: 44
Views: 57695

Re: Raspberry Pi GIS Tablet: GIS-Pi

So far I have been pulling GPS data from a fixed Shapefile, ie: not directly form the GPS unit. This has allowed me to compare and make sure the data is what it's meant to look like. I am not plotting waypoints (WP) on the screen (red dots), and WP outside the screen boundaries will be displayed at ...
by parkview
Sat Jan 24, 2015 6:47 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi GIS Tablet: GIS-Pi
Replies: 44
Views: 57695

Re: Raspberry Pi GIS Tablet: GIS-Pi

So where am I up to so far? yesterday I could: * read and write data via Python to Shapefiles * collect and record GPS data to CSV or Shapefiles * auto set the RPi NTP service via the GPS data stream * add GPS coordinates to a RPi camera photo * collect temperature from a DS18B20 * have some test co...
by parkview
Sat Jan 24, 2015 6:44 pm
Forum: Projects
Topic: Raspberry Pi GIS Tablet: GIS-Pi
Replies: 44
Views: 57695

Raspberry Pi GIS Tablet: GIS-Pi

I am interested in Australian terrestrial orchids and carnivorous plants. I like to count and record data about them. At the moment I use a combination of 'Waypoint' (is there a better one than this?), 'GPS Hiker' and the 'LogGPS' iPhone Apps to handle this, but while they are ok, it would be nice t...
by parkview
Mon Jan 12, 2015 10:25 pm
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: New Car Key
Replies: 6
Views: 10353

Re: New Car Key

nothing a hacksaw and file can't handle ;)
by parkview
Sat Jan 10, 2015 6:29 pm
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: New Car Key
Replies: 6
Views: 10353

Re: New Car Key

well, the nice thing is that you can tweak away on the design and print out a 'key-of-the-month' :D
by parkview
Fri Jan 09, 2015 9:18 pm
Forum: 3D Printing
Topic: New Car Key
Replies: 6
Views: 10353

Re: New Car Key

Yes, I thought that came out looking great!
by parkview
Tue Dec 02, 2014 10:28 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Perth Curtin Robofair - 2014
Replies: 9
Views: 8932

Re: Perth Curtin Robofair - 2014

Thanks for the info. I had never heard of Gambas3 before. Nice to know that the BASIC language is still hanging in there I to have played around with mencoder and aviconvert from the command line to convert my Pole-Cam and Rainbow-Pi jpeg images into a video file. Always interesting to see how other...