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Scheduling Processing sketches on Raspberry PI

In this short tutorial you can see how we schedule the running of Processing sketches (code) on a Raspberry Pi. In part 1 you can see how to set up a processing sketch to run on a schedule using CRON scheduling. In part 2 you can see how to set it up so the sketch runs when the Pi boots up, and make scheduled reboots using LXSessions and CRON. What you need A Raspberry PI with Raspberry Pi OS, or Rasbian. Basic knowledge of Raspberry PI and Processing. The Processing sketch For this tutorial we are using a simple Processing sketch that writes three random…

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Unity development for Oculus Quest & Go

Utilizing Unity with the Oculus Quest 2 allows you to create your own VR experience for your project. You will need experience with unity to utilize this.  Here are links to the guides we currently find most useful for setting up a the development environments for Oculus Quest & Oculus Go. NB: we try to keep these updated, as the this frequently change, so please let us know if you encounter any problems with these linkt, or the guides they reference. Setting up Unity for Oculus Quest development: Text based tutorial: https://medium.com/@sofaracing/how-to-develop-for-oculus-quest-on-macos-with-unity-5aa487b80d13 Video tutorial: Quest 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwFXQeBmxZ4&list=PLQMQNmwN3FvzN0M5IfS-k4nw4NLgNd7EC Watch the entire tutorial here. Quest 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-9nxJT5UA4…

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Web-based content display 

In this tutorial we will show how to make a content display running a webpage with dynamic content, getting updated, at a given interval. We assume you already have a website you wish to show and gives all the instructions on how to set up a Raspberry Pi to show the website, and refresh the site, to account for dynamic content.   The idea is of course that you, with a bit of web skills, can design your own content page (webpage), pulling in dynamic content from various sources and showing an always updated view of this on a display. Hopefully you will find interesting use cases for this.   Some background on our use case (optional read) We used it to solve the boring problem of having a display…

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