An excellent tutorial for those wishing to use a Raspberry Pi in power control circuits.
For more like this, see Gaven MacDonald’s YouTube Channel.
Category: Raspberry Pi
Link: Setting up VNC on Raspberry Pi
Although the Raspberry Pi can be connected to a TV or monitor via HDMI or DVI, there are times when running a Raspberry Pi “headless” (without a monitor) is desirable. In a headless setup, you could connect to your Raspberry via SSH but if you want the full desktop then you will need to connect using a remote desktop protocol. The easiest is to setup VNC on Raspberry Pi. Virtual Network Computing (VNC) is a graphical desktop protocol that allows you to access the full Raspberry Pi desktop from another machine. Typically you would run the VNC client on a PC running Windows, OS X or Linux and access the Pi’s desktop over the network.
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Setting up VNC on Raspberry Pi (Make Tech Easier)
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VNC Starting Automatically on Raspberry Pi (School Pi Club)
Link: Using the Zilog PIR sensor with the Raspberry Pi
For my latest Raspberry Pi project I wanted to be able to detect when a person was in the room. I happened to have a Zilog PIR sensor from SK Pang that I’d bought, but not used. This provides details to get the PIR sensor working with the Raspberry Pi.
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Using the Zilog PIR sensor with the Raspberry Pi (PenguinTutor)
Link: Car Mp3-Player with the Raspberry PI
Everyone likes the Raspberry PI because you can do so much interesting things with it really easy. I ever wanted a own Mp3-Player with a nice display for my car and i tought that the Raspberry would be a good solution to start with. So i bought a Raspberry PI and some other parts to start with my project. After a bit of soldering, getting into the GPIO stuff and wiring all the components together i got the first problems with my project. I overcame all issues and have Listed you a complete tutorial do make this player so if you want to copy it of make a better version of it 🙂 you wont have the same issues i had to build my geek device here.
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Car Mp3-Player with the Raspberry PI (Sentcool`s Projects)
Link: Top 10 Things to Connect to Your Raspberry Pi
During my time with the Pi I’ve experimented with various devices and sensors. Here is my Top 10 list of devices to connect to the Raspberry Pi. In most cases they are very cheap and easy to interface and are great building blocks for more complicated future projects. I’ve included links to more detailed posts where I can and many of these include example Python scripts to help you get going.
From robot cars to security systems there are plenty of ways of combining these mini-projects into some amazing creations! If you need to buy a present for a Pi owner then these are good starting point.
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Top 10 Things to Connect to Your Raspberry Pi (Raspberry Pi Spy)
Link: How to remote control Raspberry Pi
Once you have a fully working Raspberry Pi system, it may not be convenient for you to continue to access Raspberry Pi directly via a keyboard and HDMI/TV cable connector dedicated to Raspberry Pi. Instead, you will want to remote control “headless” Raspberry Pi from another computer.
In this tutorial, I will show you how to remote control your Raspberry Pi in several different ways. Here I assume that you are running Raspbian on your Raspberry Pi. Also, note that you are not required to run desktop on Raspbian when trying any of the methods presented in this tutorial.
Actually that last quoted line does not appear to be quite correct — the first three methods shown don’t require a desktop, but the fourth involves using VNC, which pretty much assumes a desktop will be present. And if were were considering using VNC, we might also want to consider Nomachine NX, which can support multiple simultaneous sessions that each have a separate, independent desktop, and is also faster than VNC in some situations. Although, we’ve never tried installing it on a Raspberry Pi.
Also, some or all of these tips may be useful for controlling Linux remotely regardless of the actual hardware that is in use — in other words, these are by no means exclusive to the Raspberry Pi.
Full article here:
How to remote control Raspberry Pi (Xmodulo)
Link: Do More, Faster In The Linux Terminal With Midnight Commander
This is the program we always install first in any new Linux-based installation, and if for some reason we can’t install it, that system tends to get blown away and replaced by a different version of Linux (or whatever) almost immediately. Not being able to install Midnight Commander is kind of a deal-breaker around here.
File browsing in a Linux terminal is alright, but it could be so much better. Midnight Commander is the program you’re looking for – it gives you a two-paned file browser that makes working in the terminal so much easier. And the best part? It’s simple to get and use.
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Do More, Faster In The Linux Terminal With Midnight Commander (MakeUseOf)
We’ll just add that even some Mac OS X users are apparently lost without Midnight Commander, since an older article on installing it under OS X is still one of the most popular on this site, even though for day-to-day use, we would think that most OS X users would be happier with the more recent versions of XtraFinder, which now includes dual pane functionality (and it’s free!). As for Windows users, there is always the venerable Total Commander.
Link: Setting up a Raspberry Pi as a WiFi access point
Would you like to use your Pi as a WiFi router? Or maybe have it as a special filtering access point? Setting up a Pi as an access point (AP) is a bit more advanced than using it as a client, but its still only a half hour of typing to configure. If you want to, this tutorial will make it so the Pi broadcasts a WiFi service and then routes internet traffic to an Ethernet cable. Since its all Linux you can go in and update or configure it however you like.
I used the following pages as a guide to create this tutorial, please note many of them will not work completely, but check them out if you are interested!
- http://qcktech.blogspot.com/2012/08/raspberry-pi-as-router.html
- http://itsacleanmachine.blogspot.com/2013/02/wifi-access-point-with-raspberry-pi.html
- http://esrlabs.com/android-transporter-for-the-nexus-7-and-the-raspberry-pi/
- http://elinux.org/RPI-Wireless-Hotspot
Currently tested working on Raspbian only
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Setting up a Raspberry Pi as a WiFi access point (Adafruit Learning System)
We would not purchase a Raspberry Pi solely for this purpose, since you can probably buy a dedicated router that will act as an wireless access point for less than the price of a Raspberry Pi, power supply, SD Card, and WiFi adapter. But if you already have a Raspberry Pi that is loafing along doing some task that doesn’t make full use of its capabilities, this might be an extra task you could give it, particularly if it happens to be in a spot where WiFi reception is a bit spotty.
Link: Raspberry Pi: Tweet My IP (and, how to enable a Raspberry Pi to send tweets)
I intend to put my Raspberry Pies to work as intelligent controllers. As long as they stay at home I can easily keep track of the IP addresses they get from my modem. However as soon as my Pies start roaming the world and get connected to strange networks it is not as simple any more.
This little script will help you determine the IP address the Raspberry Pi has received. As soon as the Raspberry Pi receives an IP address from the network’s DHCP server it will send a Tweet, telling what IP address it has received. It can even tell you with what IP address it is now connected to the internet if you want to.
Full article here:
Tweet My IP (SB-Projects On Line)
Related article from same site: Send Twitter messages (from your Raspberry Pi)
Link: Raspberry Pi Multi-Room Audio (Mobile/Tablet/PC Controlled)
I have been lurking on Instructables for a few years but have never posted one myself. Now I have bought a home of my own it’s time to undergo some projects and share them with the community.
In my first project I’m going to show you how I setup multi-room audio that can be controlled by any device with a web browser or an app on your Android and/or iOS device.
Full article here:
Raspberry Pi Multi-Room Audio (Mobile/Tablet/PC Controlled) (Instructables)
Be sure to read the comments under the main article because they provide some additional suggestions and insights.
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