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Properly Configuring a Camera in OctoPrint

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Most people that I talk to in the various 3D Printing communities I am a part of simply plug in a Raspberry Pi Camera or USB Webcam and run with it. People do this without even considering that settings could be tweaked to make the video captured by these cameras better.

When I started looking into just what could be done to optimize cameras in OctoPrint I found that much of the information available was either outdated or a raw data dump that was not easy to read (or act upon) for most users. With updates to OctoPrint, a lot of information has changed and most of the information on this subject has not evolved. Because of this, I thought I would try my best to summarize what I had found and updated to the latest version of OctoPrint in an effort to perhaps save some of you some time.

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Official RaspberryPi 4 7″ Touchscreen Display Review – Is it Any Good?

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Is the Official Raspberry Pi 7 inch Touch screen worth buying in 2020 for the Raspberry Pi 4? Let’s Find out. In this video, we take a look and test out the Official Raspberry Pi 7” DSI touchscreen paired with the Raspberry Pi 4 It works with no drivers in Raspbian and RetroPie and has a resolution of 800×480 but is it worth buying?

The Creator of the Konami Code, Kazuhisa Hashimoto, has passed away.

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The Konami code is easily the most memorable cheat code in gaming, spreading its wings outside of the gaming world to appear in song lyrics, movies and television shows. To this day, Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start, is an Easter egg you can still find in AAA games, and has appeared in the likes of the Castlevania and Metal Gear Solid series, to name a few.

The Konami code is the brainchild of Kazuhisa Hashimoto – the developer of the Famicom port of Gradius. It’s now being reported that Hashimoto has sadly passed away.

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Eastern Iowa man wins 20 million points, world record playing Japanese arcade game in his kitchen

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Not many people have a full-size Galaga arcade game in their kitchen but Jordan Dorrington at Cedar Rapids does.

“My wife decided that she would never see me again if it is in the basement so we had to put it right here in the kitchen so she could sit on the couch and watch TV while I try to break a record,” he said.

Galaga is a Japanese arcade game released 1981 and let’s just say Dorrington is addicted to it.

Jordan recently broke the Galaga world record with 20,980,450.

And yes he did it in his kitchen. To break the world you have an incredible amount of skill, patience, and endurance.

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RaspberryPi 4 OpenMediaVault NAS

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Raspberry Pi 4 OMV NAS tutorial, including hardware selection, software installation and configuration. This video explains all you need to know to start using a Pi 4 — or any other Raspberry Pi — for sharing files across a local area network (LAN) using OpenMediaVault.

PLEASE NOTE THAT on December 9th 2019, OpenMediaVault removed (depreciated) the image files for directly installing OMV on a Raspberry Pi 4b or other SBC, with the installation process now involving the installation of Armbian, and then OMV installation via a terminal. This means that the install method shown in this video sadly no longer works. Sorry. 🙁 You can download a pdf explaining the new method from here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/open… by clicking on the links for OMV 4 or 5 for SBCs. I will update this video description and related pinned comment if the situation changes and the direct installation files become available again.

24″ Xtension Gameplay Jr Arcade Cabinet Review – It’s Awesome!

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The all-new Rec Room Masters 24″ Xtension Gameplay Jr. Arcade Cabinet is amazing and in this video, we take a look at this new Arcade Cabinet. With real SUZO HAPP buttons and sticks an Ultimate I-PAC Usb encoder and support for the Raspberry Pi Running Retropie Or PC this cabinet is shaping up to be one of my favorites can it beat Arcade1Up cabs? In my option yes it can and does. This is a DIY arcade cabinet and you will need to add your own 24 inch TV or Monitor plus a Raspberry Pi or PC running LaunchBox, Hyperspin or whatever your favorite emulation frontend is but once you have this up and running it’s gonna be hard to stop playing!

Innovate Asterisk Unveils a 3D-Printed RaspberryPi 4-Powered Tablet

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Voice-over-IP specialist YouTuber Innovate Asterisk has published a step-by-step guide to assembling a Raspberry Pi-powered tablet, comprised of common off-the-shelf parts and housed in a custom 3D-printed case.

“The concept of the project is to develop a 3D-printable, Raspberry Pi-based tablet. All parts (components) must be easy to obtain and readily available,” Innovate Asterisk explains. “It must have a battery, and it must be the primary source of power (meaning, it will charge up with a cable plugged in, but must have enough power to run without it.) It must be able to operate perfectly fine without a keyboard (meaning, everything in the user interface should work without an issue even if you don’t have a keyboard and mouse plugged in.)”

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Get in the C: RaspberryPi 4 can handle a wider range of USB adapters thanks to revised design’s silent arrival

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There is good news for prospective buyers of the diminutive Raspberry Pi 4 as the USB-C issue that stopped the device working with some power supplies has been fixed.

The issue arose with the change to a USB Type-C connector for powering the device. An error in detection circuitry on the Pi side caused some power adapters to mistake the computer for an audio device, and therefore not shove the expected power down the line. The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s own USB power supply (yours for £8) was fine, other cables (marked with an “e”) were less so.

Pi fans have been speculating over the last few months that the fix had landed after purchasers reported spotting a new design in the wild.

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