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#RaspberryPi weather station with a USB display

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[kontroller]: Raspberry Pi Weather station (in 5 mins)

Over on the Kontroller blog, there’s a walk-through of the steps needed to create a weather station monitor screen. It reads weather data from a Yahoo weather feed, extracts the data and spits it out to a small USB-powered LCD screen. Read the article with full details here

If you want to know more about the screen in particular, he’s done another blog post here. Not a bad screen for around $30.

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Control your #RaspberryPi from your laptop or desktop – two methods

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Meltwater has done an extensive guide on communication with your Raspberry Pi via a network cable between the Pi and your laptop (or other machine). It’s quite long-winded, and for anything graphical it’s even longer with a lot of hoops to jump through, but if you need something like this, this is the best tutorial I’ve seen yet. Read the guide. If you know a fair bit about networks and installing bits and pieces, there is also a in-a-nutshell version.

David Whale has also covered this kind of thing on his blog.