February 14, 2023 SOS Alert Call Box I recently had an older family member who lived alone fall and they couldn’t get up. They were only discovered when my father tried to call them and couldn’t get them to answer the phone. Well my dad is getting up there in age and also lives alone… …
September 22, 2018 Raspberry Pi Soil Moisture Tester This is another basic Raspberry Pi project I put together to test out a soil moisture tester. My idea was to plant some vegetables at my parents house (I don’t get enough sun) and use this system to keep them watered. I wanted the entire system to …
DAKboard I found this LANDZO 7 Inch Touch Screen for the Pi on Amazon and though of trying to make a DAKboard. A DAKboard is like one of those digital picture frame but better. Besides displaying your favorite pictures it can do your Google calendar, your To Do List, Weather, and a Newsfeedst. Normally you …
Pi-Timolo Timelapse STL files for this project are available at Printables and can be found HERE. This is a time lapse camera using Pi-Timolo and it can do Timelapse, Motion, and Lowlight. So far I have only done a few time lapses with it though. The case I designed is similar to my other …
OctoPrint Octoprint is a great little setup that allows you to control your 3D printers while running off a Raspberry Pi. This allows you to not tie up your main computer while printing. I am using Raspberry Pi 3’s with my printers, they are housed in 3D printed housings that attach to the side of …
MotioneyeOS MotioneyeOS turns the Raspberry Pi into a video surveillance system. I’ve been playing around with two of these setups just for fun. I have one running a duel camera setup on a Raspberry Pi3 in the front of my place. I just have it in a simple 3D printed housing I found online with …
Automatic Pet Feeder I’ve dabbled a little in a few simple Pi projects that were mostly cut and paste before but this was my first full blown project that I had to figure out how to code for. The feeder was designed to dispense food three times a day at specific times and after each …