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Create an SD Card with ‘Fedora Remix’
The Raspberry Pi has no on-board storage and requires a suitably prepared SD card in order to function. The SD card contains the operating system which the RPi loads when the power is switched on. You...
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Secure Shell or SSH is a network protocol that allows you to run commands on a remote device. In the case of the Raspberry Pi can you execute commands over your network from another device such as a PC...
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Sending SMS Text Messages Using Python
For one of my Pi projects I wanted the ability to send SMS text messages from a Python script. These messages would be sent to my mobile phone and alert me about specific events recorded by my Pi....
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BerryClip Graphical Test Program
This is my first go with pygame on the raspberrypi. I thought I’d share with you this little project, it is for testing that your 6 LED BerryClip addon board is working properly. i.e. check I’ve not...
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Matrix Pi – Running CMatrix on the Raspberry Pi
Ignoring the fact that they made the mistake of turning a two film story into three films, The Matrix is cool. Regardless of what my wife says. So I decided it was vital that I get the Matrix text...
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Top 8 Free Windows Tools for Raspberry Pi Development
This is a list of the free tools and utilities I use on a regular basis when messing around with Raspberry Pi development. They are quite specific to the type of projects I am working on but I thought...
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Berryclip 6 LED Board Testing in C
This post is for the lucky owners of the BerryClip 6 LED add on board and is the first of a series of posts to get you started with an alternative to Python. This article covers using C, but there will...
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Raspberry Pi CPU Usage Monitoring With A BerryClip
While wandering the internet I found an article Raspberry Pi: CPU usage monitoring using GPIO by chteuchteu. This explained how to display the current CPU usage on 7 LEDs attached to the GPIO header. I...
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Adding A Watermark Or Logo To A Timelapse Video Using Avconv
The purpose of this post is to demonstrate how to add a logo to your time-lapse videos. The logo can be any graphic you can create and could easily be a watermark or text. The objective was to add my...
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Raspberry Pi Command Line Audio
Things have moved on a bit with the Raspbian image since I wrote my Raspberry Pi Speakers & Analog Sound Test post. So I decided to take another look as I wanted to start adding some audio to my...
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How To Setup A Web Server On Your Raspberry Pi
This page aims to summarise the steps required to install a webserver with PHP support onto your Raspberry Pi. This will allow the Pi to server HTML and PHP pages to users on the same network. This is...
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Playing Videos On the Raspberry Pi Command Line
If you need to play video files and you don’t want to install a full media solution such as XBMC then you can play them directly from the command line using Omxplayer. This is a media player created by...
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How To Setup Minecraft On The Raspberry Pi
Until recently I had never played Minecraft but it’s popularity meant it was something I felt I had to try. I installed the free pocket edition on my Nexus 7 to try it out and as a result decided to...
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Quick Guide To nano Text Editor On The Raspberry Pi
If I need to edit text files directly on my Raspberry Pi my text editor of choice is nano. There are other text editors available but I prefer nano’s relatively straightforward interface. As a command...
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Berry Bookies – A Horse Racing Game For The BerryClip
Jim Flewker, a retired languages teacher, has written a horse racing game in Python for use with the BerryClip addon board. In the game you select one of six horses using the BerryClip button and then...
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How To Use Gnuplot To Graph Data On The Raspberry Pi
I was recently testing a sensor which needed calibrating. This involved plotting some data and making some adjustments based on the resulting graph. As a Windows user this is a task I would normally...
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How To Capture Minecraft Screenshots On The Raspberry Pi
In a previous post a told you how you could capture screenshots on the Raspberry Pi using “scrot”. That method worked fine for most applications but like many screen capture techniques resulted in a...
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How to Setup the Minecraft Python API on a Raspberry Pi
The great thing about the Raspberry Pi Edition of Minecraft is that you can manipulate the game world using Python scripts. You can move the player as well as create and destroy blocks. This allows you...
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Building A Castle In Minecraft With Python
Once I had Minecraft setup on my Pi and had figured out how to use the Python API I wanted a little project to try it out. So I decided to create a script that would automatically create a castle with...
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Operation Counterstrike – A Minecraft Game For The Pi
After my “Building A Castle In Minecraft With Python” article I wanted to create a Minecraft game that was a bit more interactive. The “find a diamond” type game had already been done so I decided to...
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