Taking photos with my iPhone is fool proof, for the most part. The auto balance and focus take most of the effort out taking good shots. There is a lot that goes on behind the scenes that makes this possible. The image sensor data is queued and processed by the phone’s CPU with a bunch of commands in memory. In near realtime, the resulting information is sent to the screen so the operator can do what they need to do….
It is time to step back from system administrative tasks and move back into the subject of digitized multimedia data processing. The subject is a vast ever evolving beast. Multimedia basically consists of some combination of visual or auditory information. With digitized multimedia, additional data can be layered which provides any number of uses. In this post, I’ll be focusing on image file meta-data. There are several levels and flavors of meta-data which I won’t cover in detail here. However,…
In this post, I’ll cover using the Rpi as a network analysis tool. The hardware of the Rpi and the open source software that runs on it is an extremely cost effective method to network diagnostics and troubleshooting. The hardware layout I’ll be using is fairly simple. The Rpi 3 has built in interfaces for both wired and wireless connections. I’ll be using the wired connection as my packet sniffing port. It will not have any IP bound to it….