Vincent Willcox has taken one of Percheron Electronics’ e-paper HATs and created an internet speed analyser. He has released all the code onto GitHub so that you can re-produce his work. Take a look here. The speed scan is triggered either by…
Category: Software
Team brings SailfishOS to the Raspberry Pi with a DIY tablet
A team that call themselves “SailPi” has ported the SailfishOS to the Raspberry Pi. Using it, they’ve put together a DIY touchscreen tablet using the Raspberry Pi’s DSI screen. They’ve then made it portable by using a 20000mAh powerbank and a…
Set-up MySQL and PHPMyAdmin on your Raspberry Pi
Sometimes all you want it a database set-up and access to it via an administration interface. Well, Gus over at pimylifeup.com has written a tutorial that might be of interest. In it, he shows you how to install popular database engine MySQL…
Install OSMC on a USB stick to use with your Raspberry Pi
Richard Saville aka the Average Man has written a not-so-average blog post about installing OSMC (Open Source Media Centre) onto a USB stick so you can use it with your Raspberry Pi. He explains why it’s a good and/or bad…
Install Chromium 45 on Jessie on the Raspberry Pi 2
Conor O’Neill has found out that the Ubuntu developers have been continuing to build Pi-compatible versions of desktop browser Chromium. He has documented a way to install it on the new Jessie version of Raspbian on his website. As he…
Pairing a bluetooth keyboard with the Raspberry Pi
Using a Bluetooth keyboard can be a pain in the backside. Fortunately, Tom Herbison has written a neat little tutorial on how to get it working. Read it here.
Use a Codebug to take pictures with your Raspberry Pi
Codebug, the ex-Kickstarter project, is now on sale at CPC for £15. The small board can be connected up to a Raspberry Pi via USB and used as an input device via a Python library. Thomas Macpherson-Pope has, over on the…
Quake in a Box on the Raspberry Pi
“Quake in a Box” is a project that allows you to run a full QuakeWorld LAN server on your Raspberry Pi. It comes in the form on a downloadable distro image based on Arch Linux. Instructions are available here.
Network-wide ad blocker using a Raspberry Pi
Jacob Salmela has created a new version of Raspbian called ‘Pi Hole’. The operating system has been designed to be a DNS-server which blocks ads for your entire network. All you need to do is download the image, install it on an…
Install Apache and PHP on your Raspberry Pi
Web applications developer Ste W from Wales is currently blogging about setting up a LAMP stack on your Raspberry Pi in order to host a WordPress blog. You can read the first part of his tutorial, which covers installing Apache and…