My hope in setting up a Test circuit for the RPi is to allow for multiple experiments and software developments without having to do much in the way of circuit design and development. I do have some prototyping equipment and I do know some things about circuit design but I would rather plug and play to accomplish the task. Besides, I would like to know how far I can get without having to resort to circuit design (I might resort in the future, but not now). So my list of things to do has changed somewhat:
1. Setup the basic test setup in the downstairs bedroom / computer room with the regular power supplies.
2. Add an additional Ethernet line from the home network to allow for this (I am thinking of putting it on a separate vlan, just to keep it simple and safe).
3. Setup the Ubuntu laptop for experiments with the RPi including compiling a new kernel and possibly running an emulation of the RPi.
4. Experiment 1: setup a thin client VNC/RDP on RPi to be able to access other servers in the home network.
5. Experiment 2: build camera servo pan/tilt unit, mount camera, connect camera servos to SSC-32, run check on pan/tilt with camera streaming on RPi.
6. Experiment 3: setup web service on RPi to allow control from "Control" app on iPad - check against pan/tilt unit, setup camera stream to iPad (might be really hard, or not possible).
7. Experiment 4: connect robotic arm servos to SSC-32, run check on robotic arm servos on RPi
8. Experiment 5: connect bluetooth, check bluetooth control on iCreate on RPi.
9. Experiment 6: setup Raspbmc on RPi (diff SD card), check video streaming to monitor, setup read of HDHR Prime TV signal on Raspbmc.
10. Experiment 7: setup Shorewall router on RPi (diff SD card, secondary USB-Ethernet cable), setup router between different vlans on home network.
Thats all for now.
This is a blog mostly about techie things, what I am doing to my apartment network on the cheap, IOT, 3D Printing, Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, ESP32, ESP8266, Home Automation, Personal Weather Stations, Things That Go Bump in the Night, and some side issues that need discussing. Remember, sometimes the journey to an end is as much fun as the goal achieved!
