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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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Free Your Music from the Cloud with Open-Source Volumio Pi

2024-08-312024-08-31 Danie
An open laptop with a blue colour body. On the screen is a picture from behind a person who is wearing headphones and working on a laptop. To the right of the laptop is a small cloud with a cable leading to the laptop, but the cable has been broken. Above are a pair of headphones and a blue speaker with two black speaker cones. To the left is a smartphone showing a music player on its screen.

Volumio is a free, open-source music player designed to unify all your music in one convenient place. In addition to offering its range of streaming boxes for purchase, Volumio also supports a variety of third-party […]

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Putting a Raspberry Pi inside a Docker Container

2024-08-312024-08-31 Danie
Docker logo, which is a whale underwater with some of it protruding above the surface. Stacked on top are a couple of squares which represent containers. At the bottom is the word docker.

The Pi container emulates an entire Raspberry Pi from the ground up, allowing anyone that wants to deploy software on one to test it out without needing to do so on actual hardware. All of […]

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This Raspberry Pi project can identify stray cats in your garden, and safely scare off birds if need be

2024-08-252024-08-25 Danie
View through a window. On the window pane is taped a thin rectangular device with a brown data cable hanging down from it. In the background is a red wooden deck with a folding chair. Under the chair sits a black cat hovering near a food bowl, and looking up at the window.

I like this project not only for the recognition and photographing of stray cats (or maybe to identify neighbours’ cats straying into your yard), but the bird “scaring” part is nice and safe to use […]

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You can Turn a Raspberry Pi into a Bluetooth Smart Speaker to Stream music via Bluetooth, Spotify Connect, and AirPlay

2024-08-162024-08-16 Danie
Purple colour background showing a black Raspberry Pi case with the raspberry symbol on the front. There are blue concentric circles appearing to radiate out from the device. On each side is a blue coloured Bluetooth logo.

The author mentions using a Balena Cloud account but I see there is also an openBalena option which is open source. From Balena’s website: “With openBalena, we want to give developers the ability to manage […]

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Is it worth buying a SBC Raspberry Pi 5 or rather something else?

2024-06-282024-06-28 Danie
Yellow background with a Raspberberry Pi board resting on it. To the right next to it is a Linux Tux penguin with IBM printed on its front.

Of course, this will be an “it depends on what you want to do” answer. Usually for some low intensity task a standalone Pi may well be best, but if you have something more intensive […]

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You can automate much of your home and devices with a Raspberry Pi and open-source Home Assistant

2024-05-102024-05-10 Danie
A Raspberry Pi computer standing on top of a computer case. On the left side is a webcam, and on the right side is a white LEB bulb.

This article is a worthy reminder that are already many things in your home which you can automate from garage door openers, to your home router, to a solar system, to lights, to speakers, and […]

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Hackbat: This Raspberry Pi hacking tool is what the Flipper One could have been

2024-05-092024-05-09 Danie
A bvlack coloured circuit board with a small OLED display mounted on top. On the right side of the board are five black press button switches, with one in the centre and four other switches spaced evenly around it.

The whole thing runs off of a Raspberry Pi RP2040 and open-source code. It has modules for NFC, SD card, and Wi-Fi communication, plus it features a miniature display so you can tell what it’s […]

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How to update the firmware on Raspberry Pi

2024-04-072024-04-07 Danie
Fingers holding a Raspberry Pi computer board. I the background is the glass door to a PC with some RGB lights shining.

Essentially, firmware is a form of low-level software that instructs hardware on how to operate and interact with other devices and components. For instance, firmware tells a computer to turn on when you press the […]

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This YouTuber shows off running Steam games on a Raspberry Pi 5

2024-03-282024-03-28 Danie
Raspberry Pi computer box in front of a TV

As you might expect, you’re not going to be getting Baldur’s Gate 3 running on max settings on a Raspberry Pi 5. However, the actual results were still pretty impressive. Simple 2D games like Brotato […]

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