When setting up the Raspberry Pi for the kids I initially found it quite difficult to find any good games to install, the python games are great for learning to program etc, but as video games they are a bit dull. Then I came across this list of games that was put together by […]
Here’s a strange WPF error we encountered at a client’s site today: [code]Provide value on ‘System.Windows.Baml2006.TypeConverterMarkupExtension’ threw an exception.[/code] If you get this error, then chances are your running your WPF app on Windows XP, and your app will probably work fine on Windows 7. Here is a good post about the problem: […]
The Neewer HDMI Input To VGA Adapter allows you to hook your Pi up a venerable VGA display via the HDMI port, this is handy if you have an old VGA only screen hanging around doing nothing. It is very neat adaptor and I found that it works well with good video quality, but […]
If you try to access the web2py admin pages and get an error like the following: [code] You don’t have permission to access /admin on this server. [/code] Then don’t panic immediately, by default the admin stuff is only available on HTTPS, so make sure that your URL starts with https: and try again, if […]
Here is a good article about how to setup a wifi dongle on your Raspberry Pi. http://dembtech.blogspot.ie/2012/09/how-to-install-wifi-on-raspberry-pi.html I used the terminal version of wicd – wicd-curses over SSH to set-up my EdiMax EW-781Un as I don’t have a screen connected to my smart-cam simulator. You don’t have to install any other software as […]
If you are running Web2py on Apache and get this error message when you try to log into the admin interface (/admin): admin disabled because no admin password Then you may have forgotten to provide a password during set-up and will have to provide one now to proceed to the admin screens. […]
We hit a problem yesterday when we were testing one of our Microsoft WPF applications on a touch screen set-up, one of the app’s sliders wasn’t correctly responding to touch events and it couldn’t be dragged properly using the touch screen even though mouse control still worked perfectly. It turns out that there is […]
As part of my smart-cam simulation project I have installed web2py and Apache on a Raspberry Pi, the idea here is to simulate the ARM platform on which the smart-cam web UI software will eventually run by using the Pi until the real hardware is sorted out and available. This will allow me to do […]
If you are setting your Raspberry Pi up for the kids you may have noticed the lack of a bundled paint and drawing app, well not to worry TuxPaint is available for a quick install, just launch a terminal and run the following command to install it: [code] sudo apt-get install tuxpaint [/code] Then you […]
I am currently in the planning phase of the software build for a new machine vision smart camera. The camera will have an ARM soft core and will run linux. Part of the planning involves thinking about a user interface to control and configure the camera – at the moment I am leaning towards an […]