Car-logger - part 1

# Overview

I want to know where my car is. Especially if it gets stolen. Logs would be a bonus. Also, I have several outdated Android phones, which has all necessary hardware.

I don’t want to use Google (latitude) or other service providers (embedded hardware).
I don’t want to pay, unless I have to.
If possible, I’d like it to do more (explained further down).

# Hardware options

## Old android phones

2014-04-22

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#Projects

photOS 2.0 - a better photo frame

# Overview

This is about improving photOS, mentioned in http://0p.no/2014/02/14/photos1.html.

When building this, price wasn’t a factor. If you want something cheap, you can still use this software with an old laptop or other recycled hardware.

The display from Chalkboard Electronics is beautiful. Good resolution (not extreme resolution, though), good contrast, nice colors. And it supplies power for the RPi. Unfortunately it’s hard to attach stuff to it. There are nothing but smooth surfaces.

2014-02-17

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photOS version 1.0 - a place for your phone to rest

# Overview

A few years ago I wrote a collection of scripts for Debian/Ubuntu to make digital photo frames of outdated laptops. Lots of people have done this. What made photOS v.1 special was the idea that it was a place for your phone to rest. Meaning recharge, dump photos, and display photos on the big screen. All by just plugging in the power cable.

2014-02-14

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Brazil-like monitor

# Overview

In the movie Brazil you can see small, mostly black/white, stripped down, CRT monitors. I’ve also seen a store having CRTs in transparent cases. Somehow I think this is a cool retro look, so I built my own. Primarily to display weather forecast by my door.

Remember CRTs uses thousands of volts, so one should keep fingers away.

# Background

A few photos from Brazil:

2014-01-31

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Checklist for Raspberry Pi setup

# Overview

There are lot of small changes one should do for pis that will be in use over some time. I covered a few in Keeping A Raspberry Pi Alive. This post will serve as more of a complete checklist for myself, so it may be updated over time.

# Basic stuff

Update:

sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

Get some necessary tools:

sudo apt-get install screen mosh

Set locale, password, a unique hostname, etc:

2014-01-19

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