Just reblogging this as it’s very exciting. This is a tutorial on how to get UK-based catch-up TV working on the Pi: BBC iPlayer, 4od, 5ive player… Just a step off the holy grail of PVR, this is a much-needed…
Category: Tutorials
Beginners : Preparing an SD Card for your RPi (by Adafruit)
Great tutorial on setting up your SD card for your new Raspberry Pi, or for those people who keep forgetting how to do it! Overview | Adafruit’s Raspberry Pi Lesson 1. Preparing an SD Card for your Raspberry Pi |…
Frustration with the MCP3008 ADC
I don’t often vent my spleen on my blog. This time, however, my frustration has boiled over. I’ve been trying to get an analog to digital converter working with my Pi. Now, I should say going into this I’m not…
Getting started with Databases on the Pi with SQLite (reblog)
An excellent step-by-step blog post about installing and using SQLite. Further blog posts will cover how to use the database in PHP. I’ll be keeping an eye on this in my quest to learn my way around PHP! An Unofficial…
Custom Splash Screen for Raspberry Pi (Raspbian)
I found this solution for creating a custom splash screen for the Pi. Custom Splash Screen for Raspberry Pi (Raspbian) – EDV-Huber.com. I’m cutting-and-pasting here just in case it disappears on it’s home site. This is a quick and dirty…
Testing Raspberry Pi’s Power Supply
Quick tutorial on how to test the power supply/use of your Raspberry Pi. Testing Raspberry Pi’s Power Supply.
Recover Unallocated Space on SD card
I used RiscOS for a couple of days and then decided it wasn’t nearly as useful as Linux. So, I decided to write over the SD card containing RiscOS. I tried using WinImage but for some reason the card refused…
How to rename your Raspberry Pi
Good, concise article over at Raspberry Pi Spy on how to rename your Pi from the boring default 🙂 How to rename your Raspberry Pi | Raspberry Pi Spy.
BambuserPi – PuppyCam!
Well. I followed this tutorial at Slickstreamer and got my Raspberry Pi streaming with Bambuser. View my webcam now! At the moment, it’s just showing my dog sleeping, but I promise it is live. (Until I shut it off, but…
ColdFusion Railo on Raspberry Pi
A fantastic article on how to run ColdFusion on the Pi in the shape of the Railo open source back-end. This is brilliant because, being a ColdFusion developer by trade, it means I can now use my native language on…