I have run into a brick wall or two, but the hardware is awesome!
I have received my Raspberry Pi in the mail a few days ago, and finally had a chance to play with it Sunday. After a very scary initial attempt to get it working, I realized it was USER-ERROR and exercised best practices with the device, and all is good!
The device certainly has it's problems. The most important of those issues is power management. Set that issue aside though and you have an amazing device that gives embedded system designers a LARGE boost to their development projects. And my RPi is still running, responsive to my Putty commands from my laptop, and it has been 2 days so far!
As many before me have hoped for, this platform gives the user an opportunity to throw code at their invention. Running in a Linux Debian environment, I have been able to take total control of my camera addon hardware and run code on what I get from it.
The most popular via YouTube now is what people are doing with this hardware and the camera, and taking breath-taking time-lapse images of their world. There are some interesting offerings on YouTube right now showing what this is looks like.
I for one am looking deeper. I want cameras on every corner of my house, on every vantage point of my Jeep. So my needs are a bit deeper.
For now, I want to monitor via time lapse, my seeding beds. But, in the future, I want to have a complete videography of my travels in my Jeep! This device makes that possible, but is it viable?
Only time will tell as I incorporate the hardware with my everyday life. CERTAINLY more to come.
Hop
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