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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 […]

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CM4 – The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 4

The Raspberry Pi CM4 is a 64-bit Broadcom BCM2711 Quad-core Cortex-A72 on a compact form factor card. It is available in 32 variants, with a range of RAM and eMMC Flash options, and with or without wireless connectivity. If you’re looking to buy, make sure you understand what you’re looking for and buying. Wait! What […]

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How to Watch Movies on a Raspberry Pi

You probably have a nice media collection on your server: .mkv files, .mp3 files, .jpgs, playlists and you’ve been looking for a way to organize them and enjoy them. Enter KODI, the multi-media player. KODI is a great way to view all your media files. With a little bit of reorganization, planning, and installing, you […]

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How to Use a Raspberry for a CHIA Harvester

Yeah, it was inevitable. You knew that I’d have to try to farm chia with my Raspberries! It took me a couple of weeks to figure out my farm, but I got it running! The game with chia is not proof of work, like most currencies, but proof of space. In short, you use a […]

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How to Boot from USB for Ubuntu 20.04

When trying to set up my Argon One cased Raspberry to boot from the USB attached M.2 drive, I ran into a little snag! I set up the Raspberry to boot from Ubuntu 64 image on the USB drive, but after I copied the entire thumb drive to the m.2, I could not boot! Turns […]

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Building the Argon One Raspberry Pi Case

Argon Forty is shipping a great case for the Raspberry Pi 4! There are a couple of options available. All come with a beautiful aluminum case, a software-controlled fan, an IR receiver, and a removable IO header cover. Options include an M.2 adapter that allows you to add a high-speed, solid-state drive to your Raspberry! […]

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How to Configure an Orderly Shutdown on a Raspberry Pi

Once you have NUT-tools configured on your Raspberry to monitor your UPS, the next step is configuring the slaves. The slaves are your servers and other computers that are plugged into the UPS. Looking at my UPS stats on the NUT web server pages, it looks like I’ve got about 16 minutes of runtime under […]

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How to Run Mycroft on a Raspberry PI

What is Mycroft? Mycroft is an open source voice assistant. Think Alexa without all the closed-source mystery. I like Mycroft because: 1) it’s open-source and 2) I can run it on a Raspberry Pi! It’s easy to set up and get running. It will need a dedicated PI with a microphone and a speaker. Let’s […]

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How to Use an Adafruit OLED Screen on a Raspberry Pi 4

I recently got a UCTRONICS rack for my Raspberry Pi “servers”. One unique feature of the rack is a tiny 0.91″ OLED screen for each Raspberry! OLED? Yeah, OLED. OLED stands for organic light-emitting diode. Each pixel in an OLED display is made of an organic material that glows when you spark it with electricity. […]

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UCTRONICS Ultimate Rack for Raspberry Pi 4

I wanted to get a couple of my Pis out of the experiment sandbox and permanently on the network. I’ve got a salt server, a pi-hole, a transmission server, and my cacti monitoring server. The configs are all backed up and they can be salted back to life but I didn’t want to run the […]

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