WiFi Access Point

Setting up your RPi as a WiFi access point http://learn.adafruit.com/setting-up-a-raspberry-pi-as-a-wifi-access-point/overview Configuring Raspberry Pi 3 WiFi As An Access Point The below is based on this excellent guide here on the Frillips blog: https://frillip.com/using-your-raspberry-pi-3-as-a-wifi-access-point-with-hostapd/You should follow that guide, we’ve just duplicated here for our needs in case it ever vanishes. Installing The Required Packages hostapd Let you […]

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Kiosk Mode

  How To Create Kiosk Mode https://github.com/MobilityLab/TransitScreen/wiki/Raspberry-Pi   Running chromium in kiosk mode http://lokir.wordpress.com/2012/09/16/raspberry-pi-kiosk-mode-with-chromium/    

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Audio Input

The RPi doesn't have an audio input, you need to use I2S via the IO pins or a USB sound card. Sound Cards For The Raspberry Pi Wolfson Pi Audio Card USB Sound Card Resources kb9mwr.blogspot.co.uk  

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omxplayer

Omxplayer is a command line player which is part of XBMC. It is a video player specifically made for the Raspberry PI's GPU. Installing Omxplayer is included with the Rasbioan operating system, but if you need to install it you can use:  sudo apt-get install omxplayer Resources http://elinux.org/Omxplayer Key Bindings: 1 Increase Speed 2 Decrease Speed […]

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Delays

Linux Functions usleep sleep BCM2835 Library The bcm2835 library by Mike McCauley includes some useful delay functions:

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Problems With Old Projects

Can't compile things to check Library file changes Are you using a library like the bcm2835 IO library by Mike McCauley? If so have you updated the library since last working on this project and need to copy the new header file into your project source? Can't run things to check Using eclipse and putty  Delete […]

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RPi As Wifi Access Point

Compatible USB WiFi Adaptors You need a wifi dongle that supports "managed" mode. Guides www.pi-point.co.uk Fixing the onboard WiFi to be wlan0 Will be needed if you will be plugging in USB WiFi dongles.  See here: https://raspberry-projects.com/pi/pi-operating-systems/raspbian/network-settings/multiple-network-adaptors

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