Streaming a USB camera from a Raspberry Pi (4B)

A neat use case for Raspberry Pi I was looking for a way to monitor my puppy’s dog crate and I figured a good approach would be to use my PS3 eye USB camera with my Raspberry Pi 4 to stream audio and video to my phone. Buying a dedicated monitoring handheld felt like a waste of money, since I already had the hardware to do it, in theory. Of course, in practice you run into issues and in this article I’ll describe the issues I ran into and how I solved them....

August 20, 2023 · 5 min · 1024 words · Rick Lamers

Writing resources

CommonMark live testing tool CommonMark Dingus is an interactive playground for testing Markdown formatting in real-time. It’s particularly useful for debugging complex Markdown syntax and seeing how it renders instantly. The tool shows both the rendered output and the HTML that gets generated, making it invaluable for precise Markdown formatting. Hugo docs The Hugo documentation is the comprehensive official guide for the Hugo static site generator. It covers everything from basic setup to advanced features like templates, shortcodes, and content management....

May 15, 2023 · 1 min · 136 words · Rick Lamers