The Average Man has recently reached 300 Twitter followers and has decided to run a competition. You can win one of these special edition Pi Crust boards (pictured above) by simply tweeting a particular message. The message can be found…
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#RaspberryPi NAS for Travellers
Ben Perove has written a tutorial for setting up a Pi as a NAS (storage) device that is as compact as he can make it. Read more here
New advert from RS Components features a #RaspberryPi
Electronics (and Pi) distributor RS Components has just launched this new video to advertise their wares, and it features a Raspberry Pi. It’s worth a watch just to put a smile on your face!
Automated Packet Capture on a #RaspberryPi
William Knowles wanted to create a penetration testing tool and ended up using a Pi. It has since ended up being a data collection device in his Industrial Control System research as a packet capture device. Read here how he’s…
New extremely hard-wearing industrial-strength case for the #RaspberryPi
Horsham-based company Lincoln Binns create enclosures… but these enclosures will stand up to a ridiculous amount of punishment. They make them out of aluminium and they’ve now created one for the Pi (pictured). Starting at around £22+VAT (with greater quantities…
Setting Up LIRC on the #RaspberryPi
Alex Bain has written a great tutorial, and also some supplementary articles, on using an infrared controller with the Raspberry Pi. It uses LIRC and includes examples on how to do the configuration and read the commands sent from the controller.…
Top 5 cases for the #RaspberryPi – a different look
Recently, Life Hacker published a competition to determine the best 5 cases for the Raspberry Pi. Now, obviously I’m just one person, but looking at their list I don’t think they’ve got all the best ones. So, instead I thought…
Play Minecraft on the #RaspberryPi using NodeRED
Boris Adryan wanted to introduce his children to Minecraft programming but felt that they weren’t yet ready to use Python. They were used to the visual programming environment of Scratch, however, and so the visual environment of NodeRED seemed like…
Set up a wireless access point with a #RaspberryPi
This isn’t the first time I’ve featured a tutorial on setting up a wireless access point, but it’s such a useful thing to be able to do that I have no qualms about covering it again. This time, it’s a…
Poor man’s #RaspberryPi backup server
Frank has written a comprehensive tutorial on using your Raspberry Pi as a backup server, including making a case to hold everything in. Some of the scripts are in French (but should be easy enough to understand anyway) and it’s…