DIY Sensors

DIY Sensors

Learn how to build your own DIY sensors. It’s easy, it’s fast and it costs almost nothing. Additionally, you will learn a lot about sensors. Check out our Video if you do not feel like reading. How do sensors work There are countless types of sensors. Sensors for measuring temperature, light, sound or forces, to…

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Headless setup for Raspberry Pi

With this Headless setup all you need to run your Raspberry Pi is a MicroSD and a power adapter. Learn how to connect to your Pi from Windows. Requirements Hardware Software Make sure that you have alle the hardware requirements at hand and download the free software that we are going to need for this…

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What to do with the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

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If you are looking for fun projects to do, check out this post. The Pi Zero 2 W is best suited to applications that have these parameters: If you plan to build a device that runs on a battery, needs to fit in a small space, or needs to run Linux, then the Raspberry Pi…

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CircuitPython, Adafruit Feather RP2040, and I2C

As you probably guessed by the title, this article discusses CircuitPython, the Adafruit Feather RP2040, and the I2C communication protocol. The RP2040 has two I2C controllers – good for example, when you want to run two I2C devices with the same I2C address. In my test setup, I have an Adafruit Feather RP2040 microcontroller board,…

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All about SD card health on the Raspberry Pi

The SD card is – next to the power supply – a critical additional component of the Raspberry Pi. Monitoring it’s health is really important to ensure a smooth operation of your Raspberry Pi operating system, and a good user experience. This article will show you several ways how to check and monitor the health…

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What is a Raspberry Pi and what can I do with it?

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The Raspberry Pi is a small, credit-card sized computer. It has many functions and interfaces which you know and recognize from “bigger computers” like Dell desktop computers or Lenovo notebooks. You can run many software applications on it, like a web browser (Chromium which is similar to Google Chrome), spreadsheets (LibreOffice Calc, which is, again,…

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PiControl

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PiControl is a powerful app which enables you to control your Raspberry Pi remotely from any web browser. This page gives you an overview of the PiControl App. PiControl You’ll notice that, by default, three commands are included and immediately available for your Raspberry Pi. Namely, with PiControl, you can power off your Raspberry Pi,…

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