prupert 2.0

So, I lied and very much didn't keep this site updated. Bad me. However, I need to a place to host my next project and hopefully what will grow in to my main hobby - coding demos (Demoscene) audio and video projects, hosted online. I aim to use Processing, specifically P5.JS to learn JavaScript and …

How To Screenshot The Framebuffer On Raspbian

So, whilst writing a recent post, I needed to take a screenshot from the framebuffer device. After a bit of googling, the best option seemed to be using fbgrab, that saves the content of the framebuffer as a PPM file (an image in text format that I've never heard of). It turns out fbgrab is …

Raspberry Pi Weather Station and Display

I've always been a huge fan of Raspberry Pis and I'll update this blog to show how I use them currently with a nod to how they have been used in the past. Since my kids have always wanted to know what the weather is (is it going to be windy tonight daddy.....is it going …

Back from the dead

So, I had totally forgotten this site even existed, yet here it is. Funnily enough I came across it after stumbling across the content held on a domain I use to own: http://www.prupert.co.uk. Weirdly, that domain seems to contain most of the content from this site, yet obviously without my permission, not sure how that …

Raspberry Roller

I got a Raspberry Pi a while ago (well, two actually) and have finally finished my first project with it, to make a portable music streaming device. This would have been pretty easy, but I decided to put it in an old retro 80s ghetto blaster case, namely this one, a Phillips Roller radio cassette …

What A Crazy 48 Hours

Well, that was fun. Interviewed by the BBC, got featured on BBC One (though crazy early at around 7am) and then on BBC News 24 twice. In-depth article on the BBC news website which makes the front of the Technology section (as a feature on the side) and then it makes the Home page as the most …

Build your own baby monitor revisited

(Quite) a while ago I wrote about my attempts to make my own video baby monitor. I had also written about a few other approaches as well, but they were pretty involved and complex and tended to break after a few days. Wanting to simplify the approach and make it easier to set up, I …

How to backup and sync your rooted Android phone automatically

I have for a while now been working on a custom automatic sync solution for my HTC Hero running Froyo (Froydvillain ROM). As I am a Linux junkie and love scripts and hacks I wanted to do it all via cunning hacks and I've finally got it nailed. This solution uses Scripting Layer 4 Android …

get_iplayer startup script

For funsies I am looking to create a web pvr, using get_iplayer, sickbeard and sabnzbd+ (though I am planning to stay on the legal side and only download what I can watch for free anyway). Since there is no startup script for the get_iplayer web pvr program, I created one. You can find it here: …

Not so long and thanks for all the clicks

Edit, I've transferred over to wordpress.com, so the site stays, it'll just stagnate for a while.... So, clearly, I have let this blog fall by the wayside. I haven't written a new post since April 2011. Bad bad me. As it's time to renew my hosting, I have decided not to renew and to let …