It’s well-established that SD cards have a finite lifespan. This lifespan is dependent on the number of writes that you do to the card (although the number of reads is largely irrelevant). Alexander van der Sar has blogged about using a…
Category: Software
Low memory-usage blog platform for the Raspberry Pi
Andy Molenda has blogged about his experiences using Grav which is a low-memory footprint and highly efficient flat-file CMS. It has enabled him to run a blog on his 256MB Pi with very good performance. He has written up how to install…
Remote monitoring of Raspberry Pi 2 CPUs
David has written a great little app that creates a web server on the Pi that is used to display graphed information about the Pi 2’s 4 CPUs. He has written up the project here and made the code available…
Raspberry Pi iBeacon system for bypassing theme park queues
Hacker (and fellow amateur thesp) Michael duPont attended a hackathon at Universal Studios in March and helped to create a system whereby guests to the theme park could bypass ride queues by visiting certain checkpoints in a park area, thus completing ‘challenges’. This…
Use WordPress to host your own website on the Raspberry Pi
Instructables user dbrad5683 has written a tutorial that shows you how to install PHP, Apache, MySQL and WordPress so that you can host your own website on the Pi. It’s pretty straightforward. I wouldn’t personally use Apache or MySQL as they’re a bit heavy…
The Raspberry Pi as a Stratum-1 NTP Server
David Taylor has written a comprehensive (and possibly bewildering) guide to setting up the Raspberry Pi as an NTP server (and therefore getting the correct time on your Pi). He uses various methods including a USB GPS receiver and also,…
Access your Raspberry Pi from anywhere in the world with Weaved
Weaved is based in America and is a portal that can be used to access your Pi from anywhere in the world. You sign up for an account (which is free, as far as I can tell, but may have…
Set up your Raspberry Pi to play Atari 2600 games
John Browning over at Engadget has written a great tutorial about using a piece of software called ‘Stella’ to emulate the Atari 2600. He takes you through installing the software and then configuring it to play the ROMs which you…
Basic deep learning and image recognition with the Raspberry Pi
David Walz has blogged about using the DeepBeliefSDK to identify the contents of an image. DeepBelief takes an image and evaluates it with a neural network model in order make a conclusion as to what is in the image. Read more about it…
Raspberry Pi voice translator via Google and Microsoft
Wolf Paulus has taken his work on speech recognition further and has hooked up the recognition text received from Google Translate to the free Microsoft Azure translation service. He now has a Pi-powered voice translator! Read about it and watch a…