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PinephonePRO camera working in July 2022

Posted on July 2, 2022 by twongkee

for the long weekend here in North America (Friday off in Canada, Monday off in US) had some time to again look at the pinephone pro. downloaded the July 1 manjaro plasma dev image: https://github.com/manjaro-pinephone/plasma-mobile-dev/releases/tag/202207010605 and also ppp-cam testing utility: … Continue reading →

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BirdNET-Pi in the city

Posted on April 26, 2022 by twongkee

installed BirdNET-Pi on a 4 Gig Raspberry Pi 4. Using a webcam with built in microphone I had lying around. The microphone is not really designed for wildlife recordings, but seems to work! It is sitting in an open window. … Continue reading →

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BrickPI EggBot for Easter

Posted on April 11, 2022 by twongkee

Since was playing with the brickpi earlier, tried an eggbot: as with most things, the software part is easy for me, the actual pen/egg bits are more challenging. Found the “gear play” and some friction issues, the egg slipping in … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi HQ Camera action shot

Posted on March 4, 2022 by twongkee

Have a Raspberry Pi High Quality Camera with the 16mm Telephoto Lens for Raspberry Pi HQ Camera watching my back yard. Caught a sparrow mid flight this week.

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MS Code Remote SSH + Pinephone PRO

Posted on January 31, 2022 by twongkee

got my python setup and running remote, with MS Code, on my laptop, connected remotely via SSH to pinephone pro. MS Code has a very useful capability “Remote Development using SSH“. Briefly, it lets me use my favorite big screen/keyboard … Continue reading →

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Pinephone Pro arrived!

Posted on January 29, 2022 by twongkee

Initial notes: speed:installed beta10 on SD card. Speed of SD card makes huge difference. First use, was with the default internal image. Nice, fast. Then installed beta on SD card. Was an old one I just had lying around. SO … Continue reading →

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Wombo Art

Posted on January 14, 2022 by twongkee

Came across wombo art on twitter (#wombo) and it is very cool! here is a link to my first creation: Toronto Transit Raccoon here is the image directly: my Friday productivity is going to be lower than usual…

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iNaturalist site

Posted on January 8, 2022 by twongkee

have started to add nature photos to iNaturalist.org my observations are here. Have been putting up older pictures, some from many years ago! So need to sort the list by “date observed” rather than date added to see them in … Continue reading →

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BrickPi3

Posted on December 23, 2021 by twongkee

over the pandemic, picked up a BrickPi3. We have an older set of Mindstorm NXT lego motors and sensors, not the newer EV3 ones, so the cpu is rather under powered. initial notes: initially planned to use a pi4, but … Continue reading →

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Pinephone Megapixels vs cli ffmpeg

Posted on April 12, 2021 by twongkee

here is a comparison, a few seconds apart of the ffmpeg cli vs megapixels app. not identical framing, since I think I moved the phone a slight bit between shots, but close: just used the defaults for megapixels. to my … Continue reading →

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