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New RTK GPS Base station

I’ve been running an RTK GPS Base station and feeding the data to rtk2go.com since early 2018.  I was initially using a UBlox Neo-M8T which only worked on L1 frequencies, but earlier this year I upgraded it to…

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Petit Studio Raspberry Pi HDMI extender cheap cable fix

Note: This fix is NOT due to a fault of the Petit Studio Raspberry Pi Camera extension kit, it’s due to the use of cheap HDMI leads. I brought some Petit Studio Raspberry Pi HDMI camera extenders from…

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EP Solar MPPT Tracer charge controller serial interface

I’m currently involved in a project to set up a solar powered wireless station and wanted to remotely monitor the battery charge process. I looked into a number of charge controllers to see if any of them could…

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dump1090 binary built for Raspberry Pi / Arm

If you’re after a binary of dump1090 for the Raspberry Pi without having to build it, here’s a compiled binary for you. I built it on Arch linux, but it also works on Raspbian, or likely any other…

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Update – Bosch BMP085 Source (Raspberry Pi)

I have updated my code to Read data from a Bosch BMP085 with a Raspberry Pi to correct some bugs reported back to me. The main bug was that I’d forgotten to close the i2c file at the…

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Water Meter Project

Our water at home is supplied by way of rainwater off the roof of the house. We have about 55000 Litres (~14500 Gallons) of storage capacity but a long dry summer sees the levels drop considerably. I decided…

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Update – Reading data from a Bosch BMP085 with a Raspberry Pi

Since my earlier post on Reading data from a Bosch BMP085 with a Raspberry Pi, the lm-sensors.org website has gone down. If you need smbus.c or smbus.h, here are copies from back in August 2012. Note that I…

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Update – Reading data from a Sensirion SHT1x with a Raspberry Pi

After a few comments regarding my code to read data from a Sensirion SHT1x with a Raspberry Pi, I’ve got some updated code. Please see my previous post for general information, but use the code here. The list…

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Raspberry Pi – Increasing the USB power limitations Part 2

Last week I wrote about how to bypass the USB Polyfuses on the Raspberry Pi to Increase the available power for USB devices. Unfortunately, my Raspberry Pi is still unstable (I’ve tried both Raspian and ARCH Linux), so…

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Raspberry Pi – Increasing the USB power limitations

I bought a Logitech C920 webcam last week. It’s a very nice unit which outputs Full HD (1920×1080) video. The picture is really clear but it draws more power than the Raspberry pi can supply. For me this…

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