Smart Home devices are becoming more and more popular, but the price of a commercial Smart Home Hub can often be steep and often comes with a monthly fee attached to it. There is however a much cheaper alternative to buying an expensive commercial hub - making your own using a Raspberry Pi. (more…)
This is an updated guide showing you how to connect your Raspberry Pi to your home WiFi network in cases where you do not have a graphical user interface for your Raspberry Pi. For this guide you need a Raspberry Pi – and unless you’re using the Raspberry Pi 3 Read more…
On the original Raspberry Pi's forth birthday the Raspberry Pi Foundation released the lasted version of the Raspberry Pi - the Raspberry Pi 3. The new Raspberry Pi 3 is a power house with an upgraded CPU, more connectivity and full backwards compatibility with the Raspberry Pi 1 and 2. (more…)
This blog post will explore running the newly released Windows 10 IoT on a Raspberry Pi 2. We will walk through downloading the windows image, flashing it onto a SD card and starting up Windows 10 IOT for the first time. This guide does not require Windows 10 to be running on your personal computer, you can use Windows 7 or 8 as your wish. (more…)
There was some great news out of the Raspberry Pi Foundation today. They introduced the Raspberry Pi 2, a new version of the Raspberry Pi that features a brand new processor, the 900MHz quad-core ARM Cortex-A7 CPU and double the memory to 1GB. The new ARM7 processor opens the Raspberry world to a variety of new operation systems such as Windows and Snappy Ubuntu Core. (more…)
There is a new revision of the Raspberry Pi model B available – the Raspberry Pi Model B+. With the new Model B+ we finally get more IO’s, additional USB ports, lower power usage and better audio. The Raspberry Pi Foundation is fast to point out that this is not a version Read more…
RetroPie makes its incredibly simple to create a Game Console Emulator using the Raspberry Pi (how-to here). RetroPie will play everything from Gameboy to Super Nintendo to Sega Genesis games. Unfortunately with simplicity often comes lack of choice. This means that RetroPie comes with some predefined emulator cores that it will always use. Most of the times these emulator cores will work perfectly well - but there are situations where you would like to change the emulator core of a certain system. An example is the NES emulator in RetroPie - I have found that using the QuickNES core gives better results than the fceu-next core which ships with RetroPie. Fortunately RetroPie uses libretro and emulatorstation which makes it very flexible, and installing a new emulator core for any of the emulated systems is a breeze. This guide will show you how to replace fceu-next with QuickNES as the NES emulator core. (more…)
Sharing files over the network is often very useful. Whether you need to transfer media files to the Raspberry Pi or you want to use the raspberry as a simple Network-Attached Storage (NAS) device, this guide will show you how to enable file sharing of a folder on the Raspberry Pi running the Raspbian OS. (more…)
Do you want a separate WiFi network for your guests? or would you like to have network running an alternative DNS configuration in your house? You no longer have to buy a new WiFi router to do this - you can turn your Raspberry Pi into a WiFi router. This post will guide you through the process of setting up your Raspberry Pi as a WiFi network. (more…)
