Matt Hawkins has blogged about two ways to change the size of the font on your Pi. The first uses a piece of software called dpkg-reconfigure and the other involves manually editing a configuration file. If you’ve got a low-resolution…
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Kano lays out it’s open-source credentials and releases first #RaspberryPi project
Kano, creators of the Kano kit which has had a bit of a rough road in the Pi community, has now stated what it plans to do in terms of open-sourcing it’s code. You can read their initial announcement here…
Electronic patient record system goes into developing countries with the #RaspberryPi
Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust have developed an open source electronic patient record system and are now deploying it across 40 sites in developing Commonwealth countries. It is being adapted to run on the low-cost Pi. The first installation…
Control your #RaspberryPi with a Wiimote
Matthew Timmons-Brown, aka The Raspberry Pi Guy, has done another tutorial video. This time he tackles the complexities (or simplicities) of getting a Wiimote running in conjunction with your Pi. It’s very simple and he’s done some example code so…
Network boot a classroom full of #RaspberryPi with LTSP
Andrew Mulholland has developed a series of scripts called RaspberryPi-LTSP that allow you to boot the Raspberry Pi over a network. You start off by installing a minimal distro on the Pi’s SD card and then it goes and ‘gets’…
Installing Oracle JDK 8 on the #RaspberryPi
Rahul Kar has written a very short tutorial on installing the version 8 Java Development Kit onto the Pi. Read it here
What is sudo? – Nice video for #RaspberryPi Linux people
Matt Manning has, on his Raspberry Pi IV Beginners YouTube channel, created a video that explains the ‘sudo’ command and why you might use it. Watch the video below
Server monitoring with the #RaspberryPi
19-year old Brandon has written a Java application that runs on a Raspberry Pi and tweets when his servers are down. Read more about how he did it here
Copy files to/from your #RaspberryPi remotely
Trevor Appleton has done a nice tutorial on using Filezilla to transfer files to/from your Raspberry Pi by using the SFTP protocol. Beats the hell out of using USB sticks and swapping files that way! Also beats setting up an…
Set up a private Git server on your #RaspberryPi
Scott Kildall has written a full-length Instructable tutorial on setting up a Git version control server on your Raspberry Pi. Read it here.