2017 - Rich Stokoe

Can you make a Raspberry Pi Security Camera?

Posted on December 30, 2017July 15, 2022 by rich

This weekend’s geeky challenge: Making a Raspberry Pi Security Camera. TL;DR – Here’s a basic, practically-ready-to-deploy, open-source Raspberry Pi security camera. Brief Mostly because I’m cheap (but partly to reduce the scope and therefore increase chance of success) I added a few constraints: Periodic still image capture is OK (streaming video will be tackled in […]

Running an ASP.NET Core 2.0 app on Raspbian Stretch Linux on a Raspberry Pi with HTTPS

Posted on December 10, 2017July 15, 2022 by rich

Today’s challenge: Serve a public API over HTTPS from a Raspberry Pi. I’ll follow up with an article about containerising the app and running it from docker on the Pi. This article is a fast-paced guide to getting started without stopping to dwell on the details. Some details will be mopped up in the last […]

How Reliance Jio Disrupted Digital India

Posted on October 31, 2017July 15, 2022 by rich

On a recent business trip to New Delhi, I was out for lunch with colleagues when conversation turned to the price of mobile data. Us foreigners at the table bemoaned the price-per-Gb in our home countries, meanwhile, the locals could barely contain their laughter… Overnight Success An overnight success in the world’s 2nd most-populated country is […]