Through the Interface

Creating a face-recognising security cam with a Raspberry Pi – Part 2

In the first post in this series, we introduced the idea behind the Facecam, a Facebook-enabled security camera running on a Raspberry Pi device. Over the next three posts we’re going to look in more detail at the system’s components. In this post, we’re going to start by looking at the component – the only one that doesn’t actually run on the Raspberry Pi – that downloads the information from Facebook to build the facial recognition database to be used by the device. As mentioned last time, I’ve coded this as a .NET application – actually by extending the... Read more →

Waiting for my Raspberry Pi

While I was away on holiday, Scott Sheppard announced an Autodesk-internal competition of which the eight lucky winners would receive a currently-still-hard-to-come-by Raspberry Pi Model B (so named in homage to the computer that helped inspire a generation of British programmers, the BBC Micro). All that contestants had to do was submit an idea for a compelling use of the device (and then submit a video of the completed project, along with instructions to replicate it on Instructables.com). I’d been interested for some time in getting my hands on one of these cool little systems, and had a few... Read more →