Here’s a nice little tutorial from Dexter Industries. In it, they use a Raspberry Pi, their GrovePi add-on board, an LCD screen and a buzzer to create a system that will alert you when an open wifi network is found. Please…
Category: Networking
Getting started with the ESP8266 pHAT for the Raspberry Pi
Richard Hayler has written an excellent tutorial on using this new add-on board from Pimoroni. You basically connect to the pHAT using minicom and then send old-style AT commands like you would with an old modem. He hasn’t quite gone…
Add low-profile wi-fi to your Raspberry Pi Zero
Adding wi-fi to your Zero has been done before but this is a really nice video, so I thought I’d feature it. NODE has taken the innards of a wifi dongle, some thin wires and a Pi Zero. He’s then soldered the…
Connect to the Raspberry Pi over SSH from Windows 10, Linux and Android
Gary Newell over at Everyday Linux User has written a great tutorial on setting up and using SSH to connect to a Pi’s command line. He covers connections from Windows 10, Linux and Android (no love for the Mac, yet) including…
Speak to your Raspberry Pi via an Ethernet cable
Scott Campbell has written a tutorial on connecting directly to a Raspberry Pi using an ethernet cable from a Windows machine. Read it here.
Program your Raspberry Pi Zero over USB
The Raspberry Pi Zero’s USB port is an OTG port, meaning that hardware-wise programming it over USB should be possible. Well, some clever people over on the Raspberry Pi forums have worked out how to get the software working. Andrew Mulholland…
Use WICD to set-up wifi on a Raspberry Pi with Raspbian Jessie Lite
Daniel Bull, who created the excellent CamJam EduKit 3 3D printed chassis, wanted to set-up wifi on his Pi Zero. He downloaded Raspbian Jessie Lite (the cut-down version of Raspbian now offered by the Raspberry Pi Foundation) but found that…
Run a Raspberry Pi headless from initial boot-up
David Maitland has worked out the series of commands and edits that you need to carry out in order to automatically make your Raspberry Pi headless and available on your network from first boot-up. It involves using a Linux computer to…
Add an ethernet port to your Raspberry Pi Zero
This is a great little hack that doesn’t require much knowledge to do. Alex Eames had purchased a little ethernet breakout board from DealExtreme and, following a thread on the Raspberry Pi forums, connected it up to the Pi via…
Adding wifi to the Raspberry Pi Zero with a hack
Shintaro decided he wanted to add wi-fi to his Zero. Rather than mess about with converter cables and adapters, he has instead taken apart the dongle and soldered it directly to the correct lines on the Pi. He carefully kept the…