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Raspberry Pi – failed to open vchiq instance [Solved]

August 3, 2014

I've been working on my timelapse camera setup with my raspberry pi and when trying to run my python script I got the following error. This is a permissions error because I had created a new user that wasn't in the video group.

Raspberry Pi Workstation

July 9, 2014

After a few weeks of using my 50" television as a display while working on my time-lapse project it quickly became hard to work with. I decided to downsize to a desktop workstation solution.

Beetroot Brownie Cake

July 9, 2014

I've wanted to attempt to make a paleo/gluten free brownie. I checked my cupboards and I had what I assumed was everything I needed for a brownie minus some chocolate/cocoa.

BuddyPress and Wordpress Search

July 6, 2014

I had a site that needed private messaging so I decided to use BuddyPress as it already has a great messaging system. It appeared to work well with all the existing plugins until I tried to use the site search.

Gems when using Ruby via Software Collections

June 26, 2014

In my previous article I outlined how to get Ruby installed via RedHat Software Collections (SCL) and this works for basic ruby commands until I tried to install my backup gem. I got an install error when trying to build the native extensions.

Centos 6.5 and Ruby 1.9.3 via Software Collections

June 26, 2014

I wanted to cut the amount of repositories that my systems were running and I recently came across Red Hats Software Collections (SCL). Software collections is a relatively new system that allows you to run some newer versions of popular packages including ruby, php, postgreSQL and more.

Raspberry Pi Camera Module Samples

June 25, 2014

After getting the wireless network card working on my raspberry pi I got straight to work on testing out the camera module on the pi. I found a lot of websites talking about how the module works and how to hook it up.

Raspberry Pi + Asus N10 wireless

June 24, 2014

I've finally got some time to do some work on my time-lapse project when I hit a brick wall straight off the bat. My $15 tiny wireless adaptor from Asus wasn't working so I did some digging to try to work out what was going on. I first tried to use the GUI WiFi Config and it was able to detect...

Synology FTP with an Airport Extreme Firewall

June 22, 2014

If you have read some of my other posts you'd know that I've got a couple of Network Attached Storage devices from QNAP and Synology. I've settled on using the Synology as my primary array with the QNAP as a backup.

Nginx Rewrite Rule for Html Files

June 18, 2014

I've recently switched to using nginx + php-fpm + mariaDB for the backend running this WordPress blog and running it on a micro instance on amazon web services. I did this because I wanted to learn some newer technologies and see how they differ from the standard LAMP setup that I'm so familiar with.