{"id":369,"date":"2012-10-29T13:36:25","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T13:36:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=369"},"modified":"2012-10-29T13:36:25","modified_gmt":"2012-10-29T13:36:25","slug":"redwing-pi-scripts-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=369","title":{"rendered":"Redwing Pi scripts released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/recantha\/redwing-pi\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.extension.umn.edu\/yardandgarden\/YGLNews\/images\/redwingry2.jpg?w=200\" alt=\"recantha\/redwing-pi \u00b7 GitHub\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peteronion.org.uk\/smf\/\">Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam<\/a>, and the fair amount of success running the PiPodCorder with a working temperature sensor and LCD read-out, I&#8217;ve decided to put the code onto GitHub in the hope that somewhere someone will find them useful!<\/p>\n<p>Groups of scripts in the project include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>access_point &#8211; turn the Raspberry Pi into a wifi access point (I&#8217;m using this to tether a mobile phone to it so I can access the Pi from a VNC session running on the phone. But, the same principle applies for running it as a wifi router)<\/li>\n<li>bluetooth &#8211; connect devices over bluetooth to the Pi (I&#8217;m using this primarily to connect a Rii Bluetooth Keyboard\/Trackpad)<\/li>\n<li>gpio &#8211; various scripts and modules to use the GPIO pins (Other scripts in there include: LCD control for a 16&#215;2 display, LED on\/off simple script, read from a TMP102 temperature sensor, read from an SR04 Ultrasonic distance sensor) multimedia &#8211; scripts to activate and use a webcam, including motion-detection<\/li>\n<li>operating_system &#8211; update and upgrade your Pi with ease<\/li>\n<li>software &#8211; various installation scripts for software packages and projects that run on the Pi<\/li>\n<li>wifi &#8211; scripts to help you get your Pi running on a wifi network (for instance to run it &#8216;headless&#8217;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To view the repository and see the code, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/recantha\/redwing-pi\">recantha\/redwing-pi \u00b7 GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/recantha\/redwing-pi\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/occidentalis1.png\" alt=\"Occidentalis\" width=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please note, I am running the <a href=\"http:\/\/learn.adafruit.com\/adafruit-raspberry-pi-educational-linux-distro\/occidentalis-v0-dot-2\">Occidentalis RPi operating system distro from Adafruit<\/a>, so that&#8217;s the best route if you want the scripts to work with more certainty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Milton Keynes Raspberry Jam, and the fair amount of success running the PiPodCorder with a working temperature sensor and LCD read-out, I&#8217;ve decided to put the code onto GitHub in the hope that somewhere someone will find them&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=369\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,32,37,41,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making","category-my-projects","category-picorder","category-pi-jam","category-software"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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