Hi!
I can tell you a little about the Raspberry Pi.
The first thing I would do is visit the Raspberry Pi for the Blind site
as it gives very good descriptions of the various Raspberry Pi models
and generations, what to look out for, what traps you can fall into and
so on, just because a page says its "For The Blind" doesn't mean its
written exclusively for those who are halfwits and don't want to learn
<smile>, I'll see if I can find the url for this page and post it.
You can of course make a Pi accessible through Shh and your PC, the site
gives you specific instructions on how this is done.
Now to my Raspberry Pi projects and I have two machines here which do
two very different things.
I have a Second Generation Raspberry Pi I bought back in 2014 which is a
XBMC media box, in other words one can use this Pi as a media center
with the XBMC IOS/Android App, I believe there's a XBMC App for Windows
still but I never got that to work.
Its been a good while since I've played with this media center pi but
when I did the Pi certainly did its job and very well but I don't use it
given I have other options now but I really should have another go and
see if I can update the thing or - at the very least - port the whole
setup to one of the younger generations of Raspberry Pi.
And to my second Pi which i think the most amazing however it performs
if you like the most basic of functions and that's the control of my
doorbell.
In this project there are several different parts, the Raspberry Pi
itself and the Actual doorbell kit which I bought on eBay from a company
that makes DIY Raspberry Pi kits etc.
You'll most likely need someone with sight to assemble the kit but I'm
told its not difficult and the wiring of the kit to your Pi is dependent
on what Pi you have, you can for example use Wi-Fi on the latest
generation of Pi to connect Doorbell and Pi.
You'll need a text editor too so you can edit the settings files etc but
the PDF document that comes with the kit is extremely detailed, giving
you examples of what to look for etc, the kit even comes with MP3 files
of sample door chimes which I don't use, rather I have it connected to
the old electro mechanical doorbell here.
So what does the kit actually do? Well it can be set up to do all sorts
of things depending on your circunstances and needs, obviously a camera
can be used.
The configuration here sends email when someone presses the bell button
along with a SMS.
Further to this a fingerprint reader has been placed behind the bell
button - where the light would normally be - thus you can assign a text
label to a print, I know when my regular postman is here as the text
message and eMail include the print label.
There are also audiophile recorders bassed around the Raspberry Pi you
might consider looking at.
Google is your friend.
On 6/09/2017 11:27 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
The raspberry pi is a nice little computer, and it can be made
accessible. However, you don't have to wait to own a pi to learn how
to use one. The raspberry pi uses a version of linux, so any linux
machine will teach you how to use the pi as well. I have multiple
raspberry pis, and I even used a raspberry pi model 2 for nearly a
whole year as my primary computer, and it worked just fine. There's a
raspberry pi list for vi folks if you're interested, I don't have the
address handy, but just do a search for raspberry-vi and it should be
findable without too much trouble.
On 9/5/2017 4:02 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
Hello everybody
I’m thinking about getting involved in one, possibly even 2 new
avenues of computing. Firstly, I am toying with the idea of treating
myself to a Google ChromeBox, or one made by a third party. As you
probably all know, they run CjromeOS, and rely on the Google Cloud to
synchronise data across both other devices and just the cloud itself
as a backup.
Cloud computing is something which I always had reservations about.
But it appears that cloud solution providers are going to great
lengths to implement data integrity and security for their customers.
In view of this, Think that perhaps the time has come now for me to
expand my arsenal. This is probably enhanced by the fact that I hope
very soon to be the CEO of an organisation which I am establishing to
provide both local and online training for clients requiring my
assistance.
I’ve been talking to the RNIB over here and they tell me that they
would most likely use my services, so that’s a great foot in the
door. I want to be able to provide the very best training experience
that I can, and that means hands-on knowledge of the technologies.
The second avenue I am thinking about exploring, although not until
the time is right, is the Rasbury Pie project. I don’t know whether I
spelled that rightly. I’ve been doing some reading on that and it
sounds like a very interesting project.
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