September 2012
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In the first post in this series, we took a look at some fundamentals related to building your own motion-detecting security camera using a Raspberry Pi. In this post, we're going to look at very specific steps to get one working. The first major step I took after the last post was to drop the Raspbian "wheezy" OS distribution in favour of Arch Linux ARM. This was an important change, as it increased the stability of the system significantly, and even allowed me to increase the capture resolution of the webcam back up to 960 x 720. Where "wheezy" would…
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After the first three parts of this series covered the basic jig that makes use of the standard keywords mechanism to adjust text's style and rotation as it's being placed, it eventually made sense to implement the remaining requirement initially provided for the jig: this post looks at different approaches for having the jig respond to single keystrokes rather than full keyword inputs. Dave Osborne very helpfully got me started on this by providing an initial implementation that makes use of an IMessageFilter – something he'd apparently gleaned from this previous post. Thanks, Dave! 🙂 All the approaches I'll outline…