In the last part of this series, we enabled the voice assistant to read temperature sensors and checking the weather over the internet. In this article, we will ensure entainment by implementing a DIY internet … Read more
There are plenty of radiators and fans for the small single-board computer – but how big is the impact of using cooling? Don’t get me wrong – having a cooling system is always better than … Read more
In the last part of this series we linked Rhasspy and Node-RED to teach the assistant its first function: reading the current date and time. In this part we will focus on measuring temperature via … Read more
To translate text into voice, a TTS software (Text-to-Speech) is required. Under Linux there are basically two free tools: CMU Flite and eSpeak. CMU Flite (festival-lite) exists since 2001 and is therefore considered a veteran in speech synthesis under Linux, eSpeak … Read more
Winter time is crafting time! I spent the last couple of days on the Raspberry Pi and PIR sensors (Passive Infrared). Using this sensors it is possible to recognize motions – in combination with GPIO … Read more
CRUX-ARM is a Linux distro for ARM devices like the Raspberry Pi that follows the KISS philosophy. If you’re looking for a minimalistic system you might want to have a look at the construction kit. … Read more
There is no standard sensor that can be used with lm_sensors to get the temperature of the Raspberry Pi embedded board – what a pity! Fortunately for this function there is a dedicated command called … Read more
Using Raspbian it is possible to convert a Raspberry Pi into a full-featured Webserver with PHP support. Using SQLite the embedded web server is also capable of serving database-driven web applications. First of all the official … Read more
It is often unjustifiable said that implementing high-availability under Linux is way too complex. Of course you will have to be patient while spending some time in learning the required basics – but all this … Read more
Meanwhile there are plenty of operating systems available for the Raspberry Pi – including an ARM version of the source-based Linux distro CRUX. So if you like handcrafting or think Raspbian is “too mainstream“, you can … Read more
