Category: Raspberry Pi

Link: How to Flash an SD Card for Raspberry Pi

The Raspberry Pi is an incredible little computer made up of a components and connectors on an unfeasibly small printed circuit board that is approximately the dimensions of a credit card. Depending upon your intended use, your Rasberry Pi may have a keyboard, monitor and mouse added. Regardless of your intended use, you are going to need an SD (Secure Digital) card on which to install an operating system.

This tutorial describes how to install an operating system onto an SD card for use in your Raspberry Pi.

Full article here:
How to Flash an SD Card for Raspberry Pi (Mactuts+)

Link: How to Clone Your Raspberry Pi SD Card for Super Easy Reinstallations

If you’ve ever turned a Raspberry Pi into a media center or retro gaming station, you know how frustrating it can be when it crashes and corrupts your SD card. Here’s a little trick to making that a little less painful.

Full article here:
How to Clone Your Raspberry Pi SD Card for Super Easy Reinstallations (Lifehacker)

Featured site: Raspberry Web Server – A web site on a Raspberry Pi cluster

Setting up a Raspberry Pi as a home web server is a great way to learn about web design and server administration. A Raspberry Pi uses much less power than a PC, and takes up much less space. The fully featured Linux operating system comes with lots of software, including the Apache web server which is used to host some of the world’s biggest web sites.

Visit the site:
Raspberry Web Server

Breaking: Will this spoil the Raspberry Pi? Tiny $45 cubic mini-PC runs Android and Linux

Consider that a Raspberry Pi costs $35 (for the higher end model) and for that money you get no case and no power supply. Now look at what you can get for $45, or perhaps a bit more if you want a more powerful device. If you were going to use a Raspberry Pi with XBMC or some other media center software, you might want to wait until the reviews for this device come in (we’d love the chance to review one, if anyone from SolidRun happens to read this!). Note that it has optical audio SPDIF out, which is something the Raspberry Pi doesn’t offer!

More information here:
Tiny $45 cubic mini-PC runs Android and Linux (LinuxGizmos.com)
SolidRun introduces a small, modern and impressive mini-computer that fits everybody’s budget (cubox-i.com)

Links: My Raspberry Pi Powered ‘Personal Cloud’

I literally have 500GB external USB drives strewn all over the place with multiple copies of multiple things and I have NO clues what is where. So when I sat down to list the things I wanted, I came up with the following:

  1. A central place in my Home Office to store all my backup, training videos, music, documents and pictures.
  2. Accessible by Macs, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 8 RT and if possible on iOS.
  3. Low powered, always on, Uninterrupted Power Supply backed.
  4. Accessible over WiFi. All my machines are connected via WiFi and that includes my desktop. The only thing connected to the Router ‘was’ the printer. So my ‘Network Storage’ had to be available over wifi.

Full articles here (from The Lazy Blogger):
My Raspberry Pi Powered ‘Personal Cloud’
Completing my Pi powered personal (Media) cloud

Link: A Raspberry Pi File and Print Server

I was recently looking into the options to buy a living room “home server” to centralize certain services like file and print server, media server, etc.

It didn’t take me long to realize that for less money I could get a whole legion of small microcomputers that do the same work better and more securely; and use less energy while doing so.

This was of course the pretext to buy my first Raspberry Pi. A few more should follow… This article starts a little series explaining what I did and how I did it. Today, I will look at the first and simplest type of server …

Full article here:
A Raspberry Pi File and Print Server (Sascha’s Blog)

Link: Weekend Project: Solar Powered, Outdoor Raspberry Pi

We’re a big fan of solar technology, and even bigger fans of the Raspberry Pi.  So when we found that Adafruit had some cool parts that would let us run a solar-powered Raspberry Pi, we got to work!  The idea is simple, a Raspberry Pi that can safely and happily live outside without any wires that would keep it close to home.

Full article here:
Weekend Project: Solar Powered, Outdoor Raspberry Pi (polyideas)

Link: Simple way to control 12V DC Motor using Raspberry Pi’s GPIO port and NPN transistor

I needed to control a DC motor from my Raspberry Pi’s GPIO port as part of my time-lapse dolly project. I had to be able to turn the motor on for approximately 150ms which would in turn move the dolly along by 3mm.

Full article here:
Simple way to control 12V DC Motor using Raspberry Pi’s GPIO port and NPN transistor (Geeking About)
Related article:
Tutorial : Control a DC motor with Raspberry Pi (My Robot Lab)

Link: Raspberry Pi SOCKS 5 Proxy Server (AKA browse the web with an IP from a different country)

This is a small tutorial, which will show you how to set up a local Raspberry to serve as a so-called SOCKS 5 proxy-server for your local network. The Raspberry itself will connect to a remote server, which will then make the requests to other Internet servers with it’s own IP, thus masquerading the original requestor’s.

All computers on your local network can be configured to connect to the Raspberry, so they all can share the same connection to the remote server.

Full article here:
Raspberry Pi SOCKS 5 Proxy Server (AKA browse the web with an IP from a different country) (pi3g Blog)

Link: Raspberry Pi NAS

Why would you want to run a file server off a Raspberry Pi? Maybe you want a small server that is always on and low voltage. If you need something that you can send and recieve files to and from than this might be your solution. The Raspberry Pi is low voltage running at just 5.0V ±5%. This means that your server will end up costing you around $5 a year.

Full article here:
Raspberry Pi NAS (CMDann.ca)