This was intended to be a blog of the process of building my Lomo Lubitel 166B Digital camera, using a Raspberry PI camera and computer. However, it was effectively completed without me having time to document the build at all. So it now has a page of its own here enjoy!
Author: Dave
Garage Automation Project – Further Update
As I said below in the last Raspberry Pi post, this project will never really be over. A while ago, the Logitech Web Cam attached to the PI Model B assigned to door opener duties (which gave images of the inside of the garage) failed. I used these cameras because I had one in stock,…
Road Trip 2021 – Central Otago
Lynn and Dave cycle the Otago bike trails Background Lynn and I have been wanting to do the Central Otago Rail Trail since we first heard about it many years ago. We finally have bikes that we feel we want to use on such adventures, but weren’t confident about our ability to get there and…
Garage Automation Project – near as dammit complete!
The History I looked back at previous posts and it appears I have been working on this project for nearly 3 years! The first part, being able to open the garage doors using wifi from a browser on my phone, has been up and running with various degrees of success for most of that time,…
New Tyres for Squirrel
The Yokohama 145R12 LT (light truck) tyres on the Minicab Miev have come to the end of their life, down to less than 2mm of tread, and an edge wearing away on the back, probably due to driving style. I rotated the tyres at 10,000kms, and they have all worn down to the same depth…
UBUNTU NAS Drive
There is an old joke about a camel being a horse designed by a committee. A camel is ugly, and as well as kicking and biting, it spits. However, if you need something to carry a heavy load, across inhospitable terrain with minimum maintenance, a Camel is usually better than a horse. Linux is a…
Squirrel, and the case of the hot batteries!
In the post about our South Island road trip, I described the issue we had with the battery overheating on the last day. In summary, I charged 5 times during that day, 3 times to 95% from a quite low charge, and once to 80%. It was a very hot day, and the last leg…
Raspberry PI and Raspbian Lite Buster
The tiny computer projects to control garage doors and display webcam images has moved on a bit, and I have added two new tiny computers into the network. The first feature I wanted to add was an access to the garage from the outside. Obviously this had to be secure, and to me that also…
Squirrel – and our South Island camping road trip
Squirrel has recently taken us on a road trip, from our home in Whitby to Little River on the Banks Peninsula. We intended to go all the way to Akaroa, but circumstances prevented the last leg. As the Squirrel only has a range of 70-120kms, this trip obviously had to be planned carefully, and I…
Squirrel – the Mitsi Miev Minicab
Why Squirrel? Well it is small, red, quiet,cute and peoples heads turn like the dogs in the film “Up!” when they see a squirrel. It has already caused one nose to tail between two vehicles when the first vehicle stopped to look at it, and the second didn’t! Bad news. The OBDII dongle I ordered…