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Showing a gift total on a Raspberry Pi with an e-ink display – how hard could it be?
TL;DR: These Python and Raspberry Pi projects. They are fun aren’t they? And often they look deceptively simple. But you don’t see all the projects that failed and usually not where they struggled. This project got stuck (and almost failed) … Continue reading
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Tagged chromium browser, e-ink display, failure, Python, Raspberry Pi, requests-html, scraping
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A Strava dashboard on a Raspberry Pi (Part 3): The Strava API
This is part 3 of a series of blogposts on how I created a Strava dashboard on a Inky Impression e-ink display with a Raspberry Pi. OAuth2 This was the part that I expected to be the hard part: getting … Continue reading
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Tagged API, Graziano Fuccio, Oauth2, Python, strava, stravainky_dashboard.py
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A Strava dashboard on a Raspberry Pi (Part 2): Installing software
In last blogpost we set up the Raspberry Pi, attached the Inky Impression display and got the Raspberry Pi ready for remote access. Time to get the Inky Impression software installed and make the Inky Impression screen display something. Your … Continue reading
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Tagged Inky Impression, Pimoroni, Raspberry Pi, Remote SSH, Visual Studio Code
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A Strava dashboard on a Raspberry Pi (Part 1): Setting up the Raspberry Pi
This is the list of hardware I’ve used: For those who don’t know a Raspberry Pi: this is a very small and quite cheap computer. The Raspberry Pi 3B+ I’ve used for example is about 40 euros. But you can … Continue reading
Building a Strava dashboard on a Raspberry Pi with an e-ink display
Let’s face it: my purchase of the Pimoroni Inky Impression 5.7 inch display was a solution looking for a problem. I saw a video about it and I was sold on the idea of having an e-ink display on one … Continue reading
The blog is back
Well, that was scary. Just before I went on holiday I switched providers for my marcel-jan.eu domain. And while I had some time build in before going on vacation, there were problems with the transfer code not working. Because apparently … Continue reading
Adding the track of my bike ride on a Folium map
Having markers of videos and photos taken during my bike ride is cool and all, but how about having a track of the bike ride itself? All my bike rides are registered on Strava, the cycling and running app. Strava … Continue reading
Photo locations, marker icons and displaying photos on my map
When I was finished last week with creating my video location map in Python, I thought “shame I can’t plot photo locations”. That’s because my Fuji X-T30 camera doesn’t store GPS info. When I bought the camera I assumed every … Continue reading
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Tagged exif, Folium, glyphicon, jpg, media_gpsplot, object oriented, Python, video location map
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Making my video location map even better with Folium
Yesterday I shared how I plotted locations of videos shot with my Sony FDR-X3000 camera on a map. I was already pretty happy. Then I got a tip from Twitter user Bob Haffner (@bobhaffner): why not use Folium to create … Continue reading
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Tagged Folium, pandas, Sony FDR-X3000, zoomable map
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