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Play Dino On chrome with Arduino

Play Dino On chrome with Arduino

Everyone plays Dinosaur on chrome when there is no internet. One trending project on social media was using an arduino with sensors to jump across the cactus. Components Needed * Arduino UNO * light-dependent resistor (LDR) * Servo * stickers to tape the sensors on the laptop Circuit Diagram and Wiring Wiring Servo: – Connect

Tweet image of stats of covid19

Tweet image of stats of covid19

This is a small personal project which tweets details about the current stats of covid19 in Mauritius by writing the stats received from https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/ on one of my image that I have uploaded on Google Photos. The flow is programmed on NodeRed flows and triggered everyday

How to Upgrade Raspbian Stretch to Buster

How to Upgrade Raspbian Stretch to Buster

Raspbian OS is the official OS for the Raspberry PI, following is a guideline that needs to be executed to update the OS from stretch to Buster which is the latest distro. * Ensure to backup the SD card with image copy (win32Diskimage or dd) Update all packages on the current

Connect two Netgear Router

Connect two Netgear Router

Expanding the network wifi by two different routers with same DHCP server which will be on the primary router. I have two netgear (R6350 and WNR1000) which I wanted to extend across the house using a LAN cable. Both Netgear Router is a wifi access point, the main Router R6350

Amazon Echo-Dot

Amazon Echo-Dot

Since Feb 2020, I am being using the Amazon Echo-Dot 3rd generation with a Led Clock which is pretty cool. You can order it on Amazon ( https://www.amazon.com/Echo-Dot/dp/B07FZ8S74R?th=1 ) Echo-Dot comes integrated with a voice assistant ‘Alexa’ from the Amazon. Benefits from the Echo-Dot

Installing Apache Guacamole on RPI

Installing Apache Guacamole on RPI

Apache Guacamole is a clientless remote desktop gateway https://guacamole.apache.org/ which an be used to get SSH, RDP, VNC .. on the web browser using HTML5 The following is an installation on a Raspberry Pi 2B+ running Raspbian 8: All commands were done as root user Update the OS

My First API images based on Flask

My First API images based on Flask

HAPPY New Year 2019 🙂 For the past few weeks, I was working on Flask to get URL of Images from the internet and publish it as JSON format to be used by other applications (Desktop background changer/ Telegram/ WhatsApp/ Nodered….) Current API URL: https://apiimages.kushal.net GitLab: https://gitlab.

Autosender WhatsApp using Python

Autosender WhatsApp using Python

Probably you want to send automated message to a person or a group on Whatsapp, after browsing on the web, there are lots of working script on Python which allow us to send a message to a group. As testing purposes, I have used a test script on Ubuntu 18.

Backing up my blog

Backing up my blog

Recently, my Blog was migrated from a standard Apache document root into docker. My main URL is now https://blog.kushal.net On my VPS, I have not opted for daily snapshot as backup and I was forced to put a local backup on my server for the files and

How to make an autoretweet bot on Python?

How to make an autoretweet bot on Python?

My small bot for my auto retweet on twitter which is based on python and is hosted on my small raspberry PI:- * * Install PIP * pip install twython * Create an application on twitter via https://apps.twitter.com/ in order to get the following variables * APP_KEY APP_SECRET OAUTH_

Controlling piBOT (rover) from Facebook Messenger

Controlling piBOT (rover) from Facebook Messenger

#iot #messenger تم نشره بواسطة ‏‎Kushal Appadu‎‏ في 3 أبريل، 2017 Tutorial will be available sooon! 😀

Live FlightRadar feeding to FlightAware and FlightRadar24

Live FlightRadar feeding to FlightAware and FlightRadar24

YEA!!! Its been almost 4 months now, I’m running the flightaware feeder which I have got for FREE from Flightaware. The flightfeeder can be requested via http://flightaware.com/adsb/flightfeeder/ and if you are eligible for one based on your location they will send a package fully free

Buying a second hand car in Mauritius

Buying a second hand car in Mauritius

For those who are new to these Bureaucracy world of NTA/Registrar!!! Below is the “legal” procedures that I have followed to transfer the ownership of my car from another owner onto my name when bought a second hand car Requirements for this procedure * Patience * 1 Day off work * A

Bash monitoring scripts on Apache to check processes

Bash monitoring scripts on Apache to check processes

Monitoring Script on bash which is accessible via CGI apache which is hosted on raspberryPI running raspbian and Apache A simple interface (HTML 1.0 like) 😀 Simple bash script:- #!/bin/bash #Script To display Status of Applications! echo "Content-type: text/html" echo echo "Monitoring Local Applications" echo ''

Morning Lights Alarm instead of sound and weather forecast

Internet Of Things

Morning Lights Alarm instead of sound and weather forecast

From my previous post (Flashing lights when you go Incognito Here), another crazy idea banged on my mind 😀 So instead of having an Alarm in the morning, I wanted to wake up with a customised lighting source like sunrise @ 5.30AM. Based on researched work on Light Alarms, some people

Flashing led lights when you go Incognito Mode

Internet Of Things

Flashing led lights when you go Incognito Mode

Last week, I received one of the wifi-controller for my Wifi bulb (milight) and a crazy thought came across my mind to make it flash whenever I go incognito Mode on my chrome browser on a LINUX machines. To accomplish this crazy idea, I have used the following components: 1.

Use Free SSL certificate and Move to HTTPS for your wordpress Website

Use Free SSL certificate and Move to HTTPS for your wordpress Website

This is about my most recent experience about switching my blog to HTTPS using a free SSL certificate from letsencrypt and configuring the wordpress configurations, though it took me around a whole day to mess around 😀 * Install SSL certificate from Let’sEncrypt (which is free and should be renewed every

Fun with ZTE livebox using telnet - Orange

Fun with ZTE livebox using telnet - Orange

How about of hacking getting access into a ZTE ZXHN H108N router though web/telnet? Well thats not hacking, all password are default supplied by I S P (pointless to say their name) However, my home network uses the livebox as a default gateway to the outside world; Some most

Compile and Run Arduino Codes from Raspberry Pi

Perhaps wondering how to compile the Arduino codes on the raspberry pi terminal. After spending a couple of days browsing the net, I came up with the following tutor which works great and don’t need the Arduino GUI. At first, i did go for the default Arduino Program that

Internet Connection In Mauritius - Orange and Auto Post on Facebook

Internet Connection In Mauritius - Orange and Auto Post on Facebook

This post is more emphasize on the Script use to post on facebook rather than expressing my fury towards Mauritius Orange Connection. For the past few weeks, the internet connection is being degraded to such level, that one gest fed up of browsing the net. Being an inhabitant of a

Upgrading microSD card capacity on RPI2

Upgrade the microSD capacity on RPi Servers Recently, i had to upgrade my SD capacity of 8GB to 32GB without any data lost. Here are the steps, i have followed to extend the SD card Backup data: Use of Win32Diskimager to create an Image of the full 8G SD card.

Smart Car based on Arduino with collision Avoidance

My christmas toy arrived a bit “late”, around 2weeks after xmas , packed in with a new board “arduino” which i haven’t use before for some more fun along with my RPi2. Bought this toy on ebay, which comes with the following items: * Car chassis * Car Wheels * DC Gear Motor

Burned the raspberry pi b+

I’ve burned my RPI 🙁 .. don’t ever put a 12v input on the GPIO pins [though it happened by mistakes] Even though the RPI can be powered by 3 ways: * Use the Normal power usb port * Use the 5v and GND pin on the GPIO * Use the usb ports

Powering Raspberry Pi with Solar Panels 24/7 - Web server, NAS, Torrent Downloader ....

What if we have a raspberry PI powered by green energy?? Since a very looonngggg time, i wanted to have a few devices to run through the solar energy and now, after gathering all the required materials; my raspberry pi B+ is under solar energy. Materials that i’ve used:

Some interesting Android Apps

Lists of amazing Android apps that i’ve installed on my Samsung S3-mini with Android 4.1.2:- (Most of the apps can be downloaded from the Play store while some on their respective website.) Interesting Apps (Underline Apps are recommended):- 1. Airdroid – Access your device through internet

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