2013 on Ricky Moorhouse

Camping in Cornwall

Wed, 18 Sep 2013 00:00:00 +0000

First day of school

Sat, 14 Sep 2013 10:11:16 +0000

Jessica on her first day at school

Great afternoon for a bike ride on Southsea Common

Sun, 18 Aug 2013 14:47:39 +0000

Blog hosting wonderings...

Mon, 24 Jun 2013 19:46:28 +0000

A while back I had an e-mail from my web hosting company saying they were increasing the price for the package I was using. This got me thinking about whether the route I'd taken for hosting was the best option and if I'm getting my money's worth there. For reference I had a reseller hosting package, hosting a few sites for family members using not very much disk space or bandwidth - certainly not near the allowance on the package. So I started thinking about what I would do if it was just my site, and this is my thinking out loud/somewhere to document my ideas/findings:

Measure sunlight with Raspberry Pi

Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:54:54 +0000

For Christmas the girls gave me a Raspberry Pi, and for my first project I decided to try recording how bright the sunlight at our window is using an old Webcam.

The basic idea is:

Capture a photo
Analyse the brightness of the photo
Log it (and eventually publish to cosm)

So first of all getting the webcam set up - My webcam is a Logitech Quickcam Express, which proved to work nicely with the Raspberry Pi, after plugging it in, it showed up straight away in the output to lsusb: ricky@pi ~ $ lsusb Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0424:9512 Standard Microsystems Corp. Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0424:ec00 Standard Microsystems Corp. Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:0840 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Express