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Homebrew Traffic Monitor Performs Useful Traffic Surveys

2025-03-112025-03-11 Danie

Dashboard displaying cumulative event data, car speed stats, and air quality metrics from a radar camera since 0400.

“How many cars go down your street each day? How fast were they going? What about folks out on a walk or people riding bikes? It’s not an easy question to answer, as most of […]

The Raspberry Pi 500 with an integrated keyboard is the perfect starter mini-PC

2024-12-092024-12-09 Danie

The image shows a workspace featuring a small, white computer monitor with a red back, a wireless keyboard and mouse, and a small potted plant. The monitor displays a scenic picture of a body of water with mountains in the background, perhaps a digital painting or a photograph. A cup of coffee sits on a saucer next to the monitor, adding to the relaxed atmosphere. All items are placed on a light brown wooden desk, suggesting a home office or personal workspace.

The Raspberry Pi 500 is a mini-PC that’s tucked away within a keyboard, which makes it super portable and easy to plug in wherever you want. It’s the next step up from the Pi 400, […]

RaspController is an Android app for remotely managing a Raspberry Pi

2024-12-092024-12-09 Danie

The image shows a hand holding a smartphone displaying the RaspController app, which appears to be used for managing a Raspberry Pi. In the background, there is a computer monitor showing a dark blue screen with what seems to be a landscape image, and a framed picture of a bird on the wall. The foreground mainly consists of the smartphone and a part of the hand holding it. The setting appears to be an office or workspace. The smartphone is displaying the app's interface with various options relating to the Raspberry Pi's functions, including GPIO control, file management, SSH shell access, and camera settings. A small detail shows that a Raspberry Pi 5 is connected and being controlled.

RaspController is an application designed to monitor, access, and control your Raspberry Pi over a network. Once you pair the app with your lean, mean, green board, you can access the files, monitor the resource […]

You can turn your non-smart TV into an Android TV with just a Raspberry Pi

2024-11-292024-11-29 Danie

TV screen in the background showing a title on i: Cook's Country Channel. In the foreground is a Raspberry Pi computer with a CPU fan fitted to it.

This should work just fine, but also consider using any other mini PC. I used an Intel NUC with 8 GB of RAM, and with Manjaro Linux on it, it does not only movie streaming […]

In a historic first, Microsoft releases Windows 11 24H2 Arm64 ISOs for direct download for Raspberry Pi’s etc

2024-11-142024-11-14 Danie

A laptop standing open on top of a wooden surface. The screen shows a red desert scene with blue sky.

Up until now, one of the ways to download Windows on Arm ISOs was by becoming a Windows Insider. Since the ISOs were available only as VHDX files, you could only use them on virtual […]

Pi-Apps: The Unofficial but Definitely Better App Store for Raspberry Pi

2024-10-192024-10-19 Danie

Webpage with background covered in strawberries, blackberries, and other berries. Title on page says Pi-Apps. To the right is a copy of a Pi window showinga list of different application categories such as Updates, Appearance, Creative Arts, Engineering, etc.

Though not popular, Raspberry Pi OS does provide a GUI method for installing and uninstalling applications. It’s the Add/Remove Software tool, introduced in 2016 as a GUI-based method for installing applications. Unlike the traditional Add/Remove […]

Picking out the best SD card for a Raspberry Pi just got a ton easier

2024-10-082024-10-08 Danie

A small black micro-SD card with printing on t stating: Raspberry Pi 32 GB micro SD V30.

It is true that many SD cards that fail in Raspberry Pi’s is because they are not suited to that type of use. It is not so much about the cost of putting a replacement […]

10 best operating systems for Raspberry Pi 5 — Good ideas of what to use a Pi for, too!

2024-10-072024-10-07 Danie

A Raspberry Pi single-board computer without any case. Plugged into one USB port is a black dongle with the words on it: USB Type-C/OTG Card Reader/Writer.

Over the years, Raspberry Pi boards have taken over the DIY projects landscape and have become synonymous with the term SBC. But despite their standalone nature, you’ll still need an operating system to drive every […]

New $70 AI Camera works with all Raspberry Pi’s without requiring additional accelerators or a GPU

2024-10-022024-10-02 Danie

A Raspberry Pi camera module - square piece of green circuit board with a black camera mounted on it. Below is seen a brown ribbon cable.

It comes with onboard AI processing that can help Raspberry Pi users develop “edge AI solutions that process visual data” with ease, according to the tiny computer maker. The 12.3 megapixel Raspberry Pi AI Camera […]

Installing Docker on Raspberry Pi OS

2024-09-162024-09-16 Danie

Raspberry Pi computer board showing its silver coloured USB ports and the GPIO pins.

When you combine Docker with the compact, affordable Raspberry Pi, you’ve got a powerful setup that’s perfect for both developers and hobbyists. Whether you’re building a mini server, automating tasks, or just tinkering for fun, […]

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