Category Archives: Raspberry Pi

Using the Raspberry Pi for Fantastic Video Communications with Zoom

Posted on February 2, 2021 by pelicanplants

Moving slightly off-piste this time, not talking about tomatoes or any other garden related things. Lockdown has meant that we haven’t physically seen our children/grandchildren much this year (in fact hardly at all) so we’ve got used to talking to … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi as a Naturewatching Camera

Posted on June 23, 2018 by pelicanplants

Those of you who watch Springwatch on the BBC are probably already ahead of me. I was interested to see that there was a short article in one of the programs on a “£25 Nature Watching Camera” from MyNaturewatch. It … Continue reading →

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When is it going to get warm?

Posted on April 12, 2018 by pelicanplants

I spent most of this morning transplanting my tomatoes from their seed pots up into individual pots. They need it to allow them to grow on faster but, I wondered when it was going to get warm. Those of you … Continue reading →

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Waterbutt in the Polytunnel – A final conclusion

Posted on February 8, 2018 by pelicanplants

As I’ve said more than once (here and other places) I’ve been intrigued by the question of whether putting waterbutts filled with water into the greenhouse/polytunnel can beneficially affect/improve the temperature in the polytunnel. To try and come to a … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi: Integration with Dropbox

Posted on January 23, 2018 by pelicanplants

Dropbox is a Cloud Storage area that’s free to use for private individuals for relatively large quantities of data. I like it for my Raspberry Pi network because it allows me to move files to devices that are not on … Continue reading →

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Raspberry Pi: Moving Files in a Network

Posted on January 22, 2018 by pelicanplants

I’m gradually building a network of Raspberry Pis for different things and, I suppose, its the way that an Internet of Things (IoT) would get built. At the moment, what I’ve got is a couple of Raspberry Pi Zeros with … Continue reading →

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Creating a Headless Raspberry Pi System from an Apple Mac

Posted on January 15, 2018 by pelicanplants

I’ve a few Raspberry Pis which I run Headless (without their own screen and keyboard) from my Apple Mac using a combination of Finder, VNC and SSH to run the applications. I recently decided to upgrade one of them (a … Continue reading →

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Can a Waterbutt of water affect the temperature in a Polytunnel?

Posted on December 9, 2017 by pelicanplants

I’ve seen a number of discussions as to whether putting a waterbutt filled with water in the polytunnel would help to avoid frosts and (possibly) encourage earlier growth by raising the average temperature in the polytunnel. Whilst there was a … Continue reading →

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