I managed to send video signals to a Mac Classic’s internal CRT monitor from a BeagleBone Black back in 2016, and it seems like this is a topic that a lot of people are still interested in. A recent discussion gave me the idea to try and do the same thing with a Raspberry Pi, and I wanted to document the experiment in this article.
Continue reading Control a CRT with the Raspberry Pi DPI
For a current project of mine, I had to evaluate how high the latency is when using websockets. In my case, I wanted to use a small single board computer as the server and any device, that can run a web browser, as the client. This tutorial illustrates how a Raspberry Pi and an ESP8266 can be used to act as a websocket server that can be controlled with a standard webbrowser.
Continue reading How to use Websockets to control an ESP8266 and a Raspberry Pi with a web browser
I just saw that two very good sources, that both had an article about this topic, have gone offline without an archived version. And because I continued my work on a robot that is controlled by a Raspberry Pi, I had to figure out how to create a low latency and high FPS stream from the Pi’s camera that can be viewed in a web browser again.
Continue reading Low latency and high FPS camera stream with a Raspberry Pi
Update: It seems like this method got irrelevant over the years because the Raspberry Pi 4 now seems to detect the correct mode of the USB modem on its own!
Long-time readers of this website might recognize this article. It was the first article, I published on nerdhut. As of today, this is still one of the most popular articles on the page and because of that, I decided to shorten it a bit and translate it to English.
However, the original German version remains online here!
Due to my work on a remote-controlled unmanned ground vehicle, I searched for a way to control it anywhere in the world. Because I wanted it to have a high range and reliability, I decided to communicate with it over the internet, which should be available almost anywhere on the planet. Continue reading Raspberry Pi 3G using a Huawei E303 modem and DynDNS (English)
Oh yes, Christmas! It’s almost that season of the year again. And to shorten the time between the 1st of December and Christmas Eve’, I thought about a bit more interesting advent calendar than one, that only has chocolate in it. This electronic advent calendar offers a riddle that you can create for a loved one or a friend and give it to them so they can try to solve it before Christmas arrives. It offers a clue every day and it presents all unlocked clues on a website that runs on the device itself. The only two things it needs to work is a power supply and a WiFi network it can connect to. And the best thing is: It is really simple to build and it can be re-used every year and it can also be used for other occasions (for example Valentine’s Day)! Continue reading DIY electronic riddle advent calendar
Today I’ll just upload a short how-to article, explaining how to use a relay module. Some time ago I bought a dirt cheap relay module for controlling high power LEDs with a Raspberry Pi on Amazon. One of these modules cost about 2$ (shipping included), which is a fantastic price, so I ordered 5 modules. In this very short article, I want to explain how you can use such a module in one of your projects. Continue reading How to use a relay module with your Raspberry Pi, BeagleBone or Arduino
This might not be a common issue, that hobbyists run into when creating their projects, because usually the software PWM, offered by the raspberry pi’s RPi.GPIO-Module, is exact enough for dimming some lights or controlling dc-motors. But for real-time and time-critical applications, this is actually an issue: Continue reading How to use hardware PWM/CLK to get exact timings on a Raspberry Pi
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