Cheapest Webcam Web Server
Here’s a cool project. Set up a webcam for under $50! Attach a raspberry pi camera to a raspberry pi zero. Do a little bit of cutting and pasting and you’ve got a web server that streams video! Here’s what you need: Raspberry Pi Zero SD card Power Supply Raspberry Pi Camera (cheap) Raspberry Pi […]
Read MoreHow to Use a Real Hard Drive on a Raspberry Pi
With my recent success of setting up an m.2 drive on a Raspberry Pi, I thought I’d repurpose an old 3.5″ SATA drive. I jumped on amazon.com and found a GeeekPi SATA Expansion Board X825. You screw the hard drive to one side of it and mount the Raspberry Pi to the other. There’s a […]
Read MoreHow to Monitor UPS with Raspberry Pi
I’ve got a couple of LINUX servers and a Synology NAS on my CyberPower 1350 UPS. I’d like to monitor the battery level and OUTAGES. I can use the little pushbutton on the front to poke through the status OR I can install NUT and monitor my UPS with a cool webpage and much better […]
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 Overclock a Raspberry Pi 4
Back in the day, you could use raspi-config to play with the clock speeds to overclock your Pi. Those were also the days of dire warnings of mysterious settings being written to OTP memory, marking your RPi as having been overclocked and therefore voiding its warranty. I’m yet to burn out a Raspberry or make […]
Read MoreHow to Install an M.2 hard drive on a Raspberry Pi 4
Looking to remove one more speed bottleneck from your Raspberry Pi server? Me, too! That’s why I looked into SSD hard drive technology, specifically an M.2 drive, for my Raspberry Pi 4. The Pi4 has two USB3 sockets and I really wanted to take advantage of its interface speed. Those little blue sockets hold big […]
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 MoreHow to 3D print from a Raspberry Pi
Got a 3D printer? Tired of running to the printer to swap SD cards with your model files? Do you hate tying up your laptop for hours on end to print on your 3D printer? Wouldn’t it be nice if there were a print server on your home network that up could just upload files […]
Read MoreMaddening i2c problem with the Adafruit ccs811
I’m trying to write a python script to use my and it WON’T respond. I’m sure my python code is good, but I keep getting this horrible error. It’s like the ccs811 isn’t even attached! I mean, look at this: What the hell?!?! I do a little research and realize that the module has issues […]
Read MoreDIN-r plate Raspberry Pi Rack System
How do you rack and stack your raspberries? If you like experimenting on Raspberry PIs, you probably can’t get enough of them–or you keep buying the latest and greatest models and the old ones just never really go out of service! You will need a way to keep your Raspberry PIs organized and neatly displayed […]
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