What is a Raspberry PICO?
Raspberry Pi Pico is a tiny, fast, and versatile board built using RP2040, a brand new microcontroller chip designed by Raspberry Pi in the UK. But, how is a Pico different from a plain old Raspberry? In very few words, NO operating system. We’re all used to playing with a Raspberry. Burn LINUX to an […]
Read MoreHow to Find a Raspberry Pi Model Number from the Command Line
Once you’re logged in to your Raspberry, issue the command: The OS will respond with a human-readable result: Raspberry Pi 2 Model B Rev 1.1
Read MoreHow to Boot a Raspberry PI 4 from Thumb Drive
So, it seems things have gotten easier with the new round of Raspberries. The Raspberry Pi 4 is capable of booting directly from USB. No longer do you need to build an SD card and then transfer everything to a thumb drive, edit cryptic boot files, and cross your fingers that you create an unbooting […]
Read MoreHow to Use a USB Drive on a Raspberry PI
Sometimes you need a little extra legroom on a Raspberry. Just to store some files or maybe you’ve got an application that does a lot of reading and writing. You need to keep THAT kind of activity OFF of your SD card. SD cards will fail much more quickly if you have a lot of […]
Read MoreUbuntu 20.04.1 LTS on a Raspberry Pi
So, with the newest version of Ubuntu now available for the Raspberry, I wanted to jump in and see what they had to offer my Raspberry experience! Also, I need to have some Ubuntu in the network to see if I can configure Saltstack to handle an Ubuntu node for something that I’ve been exploring […]
Read MoreHow to Configure Your Raspberry, Graphically!
IF you have a monitor attached to the HDMI port of your Raspberry, you will soon to presented with an X-session! This is the windows-like interface that you can use to run your Pi. The first screen you see will have a warning that you haven’t changed the default password. Click OK to acknowledge your […]
Read MoreHow to Configure Your New Raspberry with ssh
What next? We got our new Raspberry to boot into Raspbian. We got logged in. Now, we need to configure a few things. First, change the password. The default password for the user “pi” is “raspberry”. Let’s change that so nobody can hack into our new computer! This is easy. The command is “passwd”. Type […]
Read MoreHow to Build an SD card for the Raspberry PI
The first step to running a Raspberry Pi is creating the SD card from which it boots and runs. In Step One, you downloaded all the software you need, now to set up the SD card! First, put the SD card in the writer and plug the writer into an available USB port. Windows should […]
Read MoreHow to Run a Raspberry
Part One: Get the Stuff! You wanna’ learn about the Raspberry Pi and build one for yourself? You’ve come to the right place! I’ve got all the instructions and tutorials you need in one place: right here! So follow along and build your own and have some fun learning about SBC’s (single board computers). Here’s […]
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