I’ve done lots of things with USB cameras on a Raspberry Pi. My 3d Printer has one permanently connected to it running Octoprint…
We often want to wait for an Event in a thread while letting other stuff proceed. Or … delay a method in the UI thread while letting stuff update.
It was easy to add the OLED display to a Particle Photon but there was only one font and it was very small and ugly. Making good fonts takes some work.
Note (12/23/2017): I found an elusive bug in the part of the original code that…
Before getting into the history. I ended up using Python3 and the smtplib library. Quick, simple, and reliable.
It’s incredibly hard to find the easiest way to control a webcam using MediaFoundation. It’s not that tough to stream the video or snap a photo but changing contrast and brightness and exposure……
For some reason everything I found on the web and even the Beaglebone Org documentation was crazy out of date so…
The Sainsmart 2in1 is a Mega2560-based motor controller with on-board pluggable motor drivers. As usual the documentation is slim to none and it didn’t really work out of the box as far as I could tell.