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Turning the Raspberry Pi into a clock display, among other things. | We’ve had a Raspberry Pi based clock display at work for many years, and even more prior to that using another embedded PC hardware. There has ...
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I embarked on a journey to make smart my home last year. I managed to get quite a number of things done, but still there are other sub-projects that I’ve sort of procrastinated over for some time. One of them was to build a ...
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I get asked from time to time what sort of network I have setup at home. It’s nothing very exotic, though at the same time it isn’t the standard basic broadband router setup that most people have at home. ...
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The Raspberry Pi has been a very interesting single board computer since its original launch in 2012. It has had a number of hardware upgrades through the years, the latest being the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B this year. One of the ...
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It’s been a long time since I worked on “computer stuff” at so low level. This time, it’s about figuring out the Infrared (IR) remote control protocol used by my aircon, and then building an IR blaster ...
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I’ve officially started my foray into home automation projects with the procurement of this tiny Z-Wave radio daughterboard for the Raspberry Pi. This is the Z-Wave.me RaZberry PI GPIO Daughter Card. It’s really ...
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It came to my attention, recently, that people were still struggling with wireless configuration on their Linux, or Raspberry Pi, to connect with the NUS wireless network. Linux isn’t that well supported on campus, but ...
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The Raspberry Pi Foundation made a surprise announcement two days ago about the release of the new Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. It’s a supercharged version of the previous generation B+ model. Geeks around the world, at leat ...
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I’ve talked about the Raspberry Pi, and mentioned how it can be used to build a home theatre media centre. Let’s get down to business and build one. It’s relatively straight-forward, and it won’t cost much ...
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The Raspberry Pi, a low cost credit card sized single board computer, has been around for over two years. Many people are familiar with it, but many more aren’t. Earlier this week I had a meeting with some people about ...
