Apologies for the dearth of posts recently – work’s been a bit… intense and Pi Wars preparations have taken their toll! Pi Supply have launched a new Kickstarter campaign for several different types of add-on boards which use LoRa technology.…
There have been lots of tutorials about how to create a Raspberry Pi wireless access point in the past, but they have become slightly out of date over time. This new one from the May 2018 issue of Maximum PC…
Roboberry, over at Raspberry Connect, has documented a way to automatically create a wifi hotspot on your Pi if your wifi connection to your router fails, or if there is no router to connect to. This is a great idea…
Gordon Hollingworth, over at Raspberry Pi, has just blogged an exciting new development that means you can now use a Raspberry Pi Zero’s GPIO pins from your PC or Mac. You’ll need to install Raspbian x86 Stretch on the non-Zero machine…
James was trying to allocate a static IP address to his Pi. He did what he’d always done and allocated the static address to eth0 but was then bewildered as to why it wasn’t working. He discovered that the naming…
Alex Eames has been doing some investigation into wifi connections. Specifically, how to create a connection to a hidden wifi network so that the Pi automatically connects each time it is booted up. He’s found the secret sauce inside wpa_supplicant…
Taron Foxworth over at Losant has done a great, short tutorial on preparing a Pi Zero W (or any Raspberry Pi with wifi capability, be it built-in or dongle, for that matter) for wifi connectivity and enabling ssh headlessly. This means…
Master tutorial writer Gus over at PiMyLifeUp has written a great how-to for setting up an email server using your Raspberry Pi. He uses a piece of software called Citadel and he covers how to install it and and configure it.…
Gus, over at PiMyLifeUp, has written a great, comprehensive tutorial on creating a wi-fi access point using a Raspberry Pi 3. He goes through all the software you need to install and configure. Read the tutorial here.
Frederick Vandenbosch, who I had the pleasure of meeting at the Raspberry Pi Big Birthday Weekend last weekend, has just written up a great guide to working headless with a Raspberry Pi (i.e. without a screen, keyboard or mouse plugged into…
