Software projects

These are software based projects designed to be installed and used a software rather than teaching programming.

Pi Power - Home automation for Energenie remote control sockets using a Raspberry Pi

Pi Power energenie socket for Raspberry Pi home automation

This is a web interface designed to provide simple home automation with the Energenie power sockets. It uses Python Bottle to provide a web server which can then control the Energenie Pi-Mote.

Pi-power - Home automation power control using Raspberry Pi and Energenie

Piquarium - Raspberry Pi Aquarium display and automation

This is a web interface designed to provide simple home automation with the Energenie power sockets. It uses Python Bottle to provide a web server which can then control the Energenie Pi-Mote.

Pi-power - Home automation power control using Raspberry Pi and Energenie

Picamera2 - Raspberry Pi capture photos with Microscope and HQ camera

Raspberry Pi PiCamera2 library and software

Capture photos and images using the Raspberry Pi HQ camera with picamera2. Based on libcamera you can use this program to control the capture using a push button switch or the keyboard.

Raspberry Pi picamera2 python code for capturing photos from a microscope using libcamera

Penguin Gallery - Web based photo gallery with slideshow

Screen shot of Penguin Gallery in use on Watkissonline.co.uk

This is a AJAX photo gallery using PHP and JavaScript. It provides a thumbnail list and a main image. It allows the images to be loaded without a page refresh and includes a Javascript slideshow function.

Penguin Gallery - Ajax based photo gallery (download and information)

wQuiz - PHP Web Based Quiz Engine

Screen shot of wquiz in use on FirstAidQuiz.com

wQuiz is a web based quiz engine, which is an ongoing project and is used on some of my websites. The latest release is available from this site, but the latest development code is available from the Google Code, wQuiz page.

wQuiz - Perl Web Based Quiz Engine (download and information)

Kidsafe - Raspberry Pi based proxy server

Children using their computers protected behind a Raspberry Pi family filter proxy

Kidsafe helps protect members of the family from inappropriate content on the Internet. It can protect all computers in the home, including tablets and games consoles without needing to install additional software on the computers.