Posts Tagged ‘picockpit’
Paragon Project: A Raspberry Pi Garden
Do you want to be able to water your garden remotely? Then this is the project for you! It’s an entire irrigation platform that you can control with your phone, tablet, or laptop! Using a Raspberry Pi, your garden comes wholly under your control. This one comes from Dan-in-CA on GitHub. You can find the…
Read MoreParagon Project: Mike Horne’s Extremely Mini Cyberdeck
Have you ever wondered how small you could get your computer? Well Mike Horne has managed to create one roughly the size of – what else? – a banana! It’s his extremely mini cyberdeck and it’s a perfect project to include in our Paragon Projects series! Mike has managed to fit a full cyberdeck inside…
Read MoreAn Overview of MQTT
In the ever-evolving landscape of Internet of Things (IoT) and real-time communication protocols, MQTT has emerged as a powerful and versatile solution. MQTT, which used to be an acronym for Message Queue Telemetry Transport (more on that below), is a lightweight and efficient messaging protocol designed for resource-constrained devices and unreliable networks. So in this…
Read MoreParagon Project: A Ham Radio Cyberdeck
This has everything that you could possibly want in a Raspberry Pi project. It’s creative, it’s stylish, and it’s fun. Most of all – it’s useful! It’s a ham radio cyberdeck, put together by Kaushlesh Chandel. Ham radios – or amateur radios – use radio frequencies for communication. They can be extremely useful if you’re…
Read MoreWhy is my Raspberry Pi so slow?
It’s a tale as old as time (or at least as old as 2012). You receive your sleek new Raspberry Pi in its little paper packaging. You pull it out, flash your SD card, and plug that sucker in. Before you know it though, you’re rushing to the internet to answer one very pressing question:…
Read MoreThe 7 Most Common Uses for the Raspberry Pi in 2023
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of articles outlining uses for the Raspberry Pi. But if you’re just getting started, you might be interested in a broader overview of the types of things you can do with a Raspberry Pi. Therefore, in this article, I want to tackle its uses from a slightly different angle,…
Read MoreWhat if Oppenheimer had a Raspberry Pi?
J. Robert Oppenheimer is at the front of everyone’s minds at the moment. But what would have happened if Oppenheimer had had access to a Raspberry Pi? As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory during the construction of the first nuclear bomb by the United States, Oppenheimer gathered together scientists in New Mexico to work…
Read MoreEverything about Bluetooth on the Raspberry Pi Pico W
The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently announced Bluetooth support with the release of the C/C++ SDK version 1.5.1 with a new release of the C/C++ SDK and of Micropython on the Pico W. And guess what! If you have a Pico W, you don’t need to purchase a new one. And if you don’t have a…
Read MorePiCockpit v2.6.5 released (part one)
Just now, PiCockpit v2.6.5 has been released (the Web UI – there is no new picockpit-client yet, we’re working on it). Important: force-refresh If you have been using PiCockpit before, the old JavaScript files which run the webinterface might still be cached in your webbrowser. It is therefore a good idea to press Ctrl while…
Read MoreControl a servo with Raspberry Pi Pico W and PWM
A servo is one of the most fundamental ways to learn to use pulse width modulation (PWM) with the Raspberry Pi. In this article, I’m going to show you how to do this with a Raspberry Pi Pico W. PWM tutorial objectives Parts needed What is pulse width modulation? Children find it amusing to switch…
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