RPi Backup and Restore

RPi Backup and Restore

Introduction – rapid deploy many or custom build one In this topic I’ll cover the steps to backup and restore a RPi.  There are numerous write ups about the subject, so I feel a bit plagiaristic about doing this.  However, giving someone to ability to save time and effort is worth it.  I will give credit to Whitson Gordon who posted steps that I found online.  I’ll try not to be too verbatim, adding some of my reasoning and experiences….

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Dynamic Images

Dynamic Images

Introduction – There is more to the picture for the eye In the last post we extracted data from images and processed it.  In this post we will cover the topic of image manipulation based on external data.  This is useful because it allows us to combine data sets into a single point of observation.  I’ll go through how to take an image and convert it based on variable conditions.  I’ll also cover how to overlay text data into an…

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RPi image processing

RPi image processing

Introduction – processing images with ImageMagick I first posted about ImageMagick in early June, last year.  Then late November, I covered the steps to install it and use it on RPi.  The features of ImageMagick are fairly extensive, I won’t go into all of them here.  As a guide, I recommend Michael Still’s book titled “The Definitive Guide to ImageMagick” through APress publishing.  For additional information, you may want to look at Sohail Salehi’s book titled “ImageMagick Tricks” from Packt Publishing. ImageMagick is defined on…

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